Hug half of them, along with a further couple

Usage examples of embrace.

One highly impressive exhibit of early state legislative power is afforded by the ferocious catalogue of legislation directed against the Tories, embracing acts of confiscation, bills of pains and penalties, even acts of attainder.

But mainly, it appears, Adams kept close to home, within familiar walls and the embrace of his family.

It adopts the general rule of the common law that such statutes are not to be construed to embrace offenses which are not within their intention and terms.

The young aircraftman opened his arms to her, and people smiled as he embraced her and kissed her.

Best known to us of all the Indians are the Algonkins and Iroquois, who, at the time of the discovery, were the sole possessors of the region now embraced by Canada and the eastern United States north of the thirty-fifth parallel.

Would you have us abandon our great hopes, crawl back to the cluster, embrace our fatal allomorphic heritage, and go down to extinction as we exhaust the balance of our dwindling resources?

The Muslim operates under a legalistic system embracing five essentials: the creed, prayers, almsgiving, fasting and the pilgrimage to Mecca.

The interior of the town was crusted with antebellum mansions surrounded by live oaks that not so much towered over as embraced the property.

Sir George Appleton, eager to preserve his own safe existence as a secret Papist, had proposed to send his son to a noble household known to fervently embrace the New Religion.

The strict morality which so generally prevails where the Mussulmans have complete ascendency prevented the Sheik from entertaining any such sinful hopes as an European might have ventured to cherish under the like circumstances, and he saw no chance of gratifying his love except by inducing the girl to embrace his own creed.

Thus the child is born and embraced by the mother, the liberated hero ascends from the underworld to return home after his far-flung odyssey.

As quickly as possible, she had the infant cleaned, wrapped, and snug in Asters loving embrace.

Just as he was about to mount the horse, there appeared before him, locked in a close embrace, the two seers of spirits, the two choice fools of Megalokastro, Barba Jannis and Efendina.

The worker bees were,beginning to crowd them together, which meant almost certain death for the smaller queen in the embrace of the Amazon.

The Khesatan, oblivious of the corpse at his feet, was holding Beka in a tight embrace and murmuring disjointed phrases under his breath.