http://wordie.org/words/ensconced Comments for the word 'Ensconced' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/ensconced#comments "I encountered no one at first but a footman who, after leading me through several large drawing-rooms, showed me into one that was quite small, empty, its windows beginning to dream already in the blue light of afternoon. I was left alone there in the company of orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire, preciously ensconced behind a crystal screen, in a basin of white marble over which it spilled from time to time its dangerous rubies."<br />-- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 136 of the Modern Library paperback edition Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:25:10 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/ensconced#comments http://wordie.org/words/ensconced#comments It is indeed! Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:18:43 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/ensconced#comments http://wordie.org/words/ensconced#comments That's a fabulous essay. Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:43:30 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/ensconced#comments http://wordie.org/words/ensconced#comments See stpeter's wonderful essay on it here Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:59:43 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/ensconced#comments