enswathe
Americanverb (used with object)
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Rosy and proud are the skies of the East, Love-dowered moons to enswathe thee, delight thee: Thy days and our days—are thine then the least, O Aphrodite?
From Embers, Complete by Parker, Gilbert
Ay, if words never needed enswathe aught But ignorance, impudence, envy And malice—what word-swathe would then vie With yours for a clearness crystalline?
From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Corson, Hiram
No sooner was the bee enswathed than a second bee was liberated in the cage and caught in the web.
From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
She tumbled it about, all the time wrapping it with the issuing band of silk, until it was completely enswathed.
From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
Nov. 23, 9:30 a.m.; another bee released in cage, caught in web and enswathed approximately thirty turns by Argiope.
From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
He was smiling at the red and green tissue paper that enswathed the central chandelier.
From The Story of Louie by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
The grim face of the giant planet was enswathed in endless billowing clouds.
From Pirates of the Gorm by Schachner, Nathan
Connect′ively.—Connective tissue, one of the four sets of the commonest classification of animal tissues, including a great variety—e.g. bone, cartilage, ligaments, and enswathing membranes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Her fascination was fast enswathing me like another Jones, only a thousandfold more sweetly.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
Its limits are broad; broad as the home of man; with its enswathing atmosphere added.
From Quiet Talks on Prayer by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)
The stars were paling now, the purple sky was enswathing itself in pearly grays.
From Slaves of Mercury by Schachner, Nathan
It settles on the soul like the mist on the mountains, enveloping and enswathing it.
From Friendship by Black, Hugh
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