entwist
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of entwist
Example Sentences
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So doth the Woodbine the sweet Honeysuckle Gently entwist; the Female Ivy so Enrings the barky fingers of the Elm.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle Gently entwist.
From A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763) by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle Gently entwist; the female ivy so Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
I shall be blind before I am sensible of the decay of my sight, with such kindly artifice do the Fatal Sisters entwist our lives.
From Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance by Walter Pater
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