By far Benítez Rojo's best story, and one of the best ever from Latin America, is "Estatuas Sepultadas" ("Buried Statues"), which narrates the isolation of a formerly well-to-do family in an enclosed mansion, where they can barely hear and must intuit the transcendental transformations taking place around them.
Travellers find themselves squished into a partially enclosed motorcycle sidecar that is barely big enough for one person.
A nondescript window in an exterior wall of a bourgeois apartment building barely hints at what is to be found inside the enclosed courtyard where Mr. Jacassi maintains his multilevel store.
At 36th Street and Second Avenue sat a skinny eight-story building fronted by balconies so small that they might be better described as shelves, barely deep enough for one person to step onto, and enclosed by narrow black railings and bars.
The swimming area was enclosed by a coral reef, and there were hardly any waves, so the rafts barely bobbed in the water.
Our wooden cabin -- one of five on the property -- consisted of a single, barely furnished room, an overhead loft and a bathroom that was enclosed on only three sides.
There had been Sunday period dramas before (Lark Rise to Candleford, Cranford), but Downton was the first to perfect the deliberately dull formula: A period setting, an enclosed, hierarchical community, some chaste romances and a barely-there sense of dramatic tension.
By the time I walked through the kitchen and great room to the enclosed brick courtyard out back, where a fountain was playing water, my knees could barely hold.
"It's completely enclosed.
Poem enclosed "Bleat, Bleat, Bleat".
Two manuscripts enclosed.
