enwind
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of enwind
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Whom Heaven still leaves a twofold dignity, As girlhood gentle, and as boyhood free; With whom no most diaphanous webs enwind The bared limbs of the rebukeless mind.
From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Francis Thompson
When thy sleep like the moonlight above Lulling the sea, Doth enwind thee in visions of love, Perchance, of me!
From Poems by Victor Hugo
Then Cuteyt went into the prison, where he found Noureddin repeating the following verses: Who shall avail me against the woes that my life enwind?
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
Forth from those arms' enwinding leprosy At last I struggle—uncontaminate:310 Why must I leave you pressing to the breast That's all one plague-spot?
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke
Similarly appropriate and suggestive was the new linen cloth, which Joseph bought expressly for the purpose of enwinding the body.
From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by James Stalker
What profit to him that he had won the mastery over himself, had cut the tentacle coils that were enwinding him?
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
Praised be the fathomless universe For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise For the sure enwinding arms of cool, enfolding Death.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Elbert Hubbard
Ah, with blind lips I felt for you, and found About my neck your hands and hair enwound, The hands that stifle and the hair that stings, I felt them fasten sharply without sound.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
O ye who stand, this great doom's witnesses, Behold this too, the dark device which bound My sire unhappy to his death,—behold The mesh which trapped his hands, enwound his feet!
From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
Such were the words, the last of all, Thy father, ere he died, let fall, By Fate and Death's dread coils enwound, As some great elephant is bound.”
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
The creeping mists that trooped and spread around, The smitten head and writhing form enwound.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus
In the lap of the waves he espied a purple-suited nymph, enwound with a sash of Roman red, extending white arms that glistened like newly chiselled marble in the green spray.
From Love's Usuries by Louis Creswicke
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