Significados de embrace only em inglês

And on your couch, when your lips seek a lover, may you embrace only a viper!

Among animals, except in rare instances under domestication, the female admits the male in sexual embrace only for procreation.

I wish that these arms of mine, which now embrace only air, might embrace Lygia and press her to my bosom.

I've subsisted, it's true through your charity, but it's not a guilty employment that I embrace only to support my dear Aglaea.

We embrace only too small a part of the universe, and the explanation of most of its discords is inaccessible to our faculties.

Gluck proved, also, that tragedy could be introduced in opera, while Piccini maintained that opera could embrace only the fable-themarvellous and fairylike.

Prof. Charles E. Norton of Harvard remarked that this list might even be abridged so as to embrace only Homer, Dante and Shakespeare.

I believe, sir, your charge embraces only the wounded of the garrison.

Had the creed of Luther been embraced only for such unworthy ends?

The play embraces only a part of his history.

All his life he embraced only a lie.

The conception embraced only the main figure; the rest was added like a label, for explanation only.

But it may perhaps appear strange, that the account of the embracing only reptiles, birds, and mammals.

She exacted his embraces only as tribute to her own charm, her youth, her fresh young body.

This government's vision of the future embraces only a few of the hyper-brained in the research and development crowd.

This class embraces only the regulars and the army reserve, which together slightly exceed a quarter of a million.