enwreathe
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of enwreathe
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Oak and olive and bay,—I bid you cease to enwreathe Brows made bold by your leaf!
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
Oak and olive and bay—I bid you cease to enwreathe Brows made bold by your leaf!
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
"I know, that Sorrow is that nobleness alone, Which never may corrupted be by hell nor curse, I know, in order to enwreathe my mystic crown I must inspire the ages and the universe."
From The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
Soon as the noise of banquet ceased and the board was cleared, they set down great bowls and enwreathe the wine.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Wherefore arise, O men, and enwreathe your hair with leafy sprays, and stretch forth the cups in your hands; call on our common god and pour the glad wine.'
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Saints enwreathed their chins with curling beards of gold; God the Father was dressed as a pope or a bishop.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
A discovery of many similar rings was made in one of the Western Islands of Scotland; they were formed of from three to eight wires each, elaborately and beautifully enwreathed.
From Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture by F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt
Then lord Anchises enwreathed a great bowl and filled it up with wine; and called on the gods, standing high astern . . .
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
What pangs for thy sake are my portion, O pine-tree with red gold enwreathed!
From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
The earliest blessings that enwreathed His infant days, 'twas Love that breathed.
From Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest by Maria J. (Maria Jane) McIntosh
She now held the two chickens in her lap, caressing them, laying their heads against her cheek, and enwreathing them in the folds of her great shawl.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various
Lady Mallowe turned her handsome face, much softened by an enwreathing gauze scarf, toward him anxiously.
From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Ye crowd around! come, then, hold empire o'er me, As from the mist and haze of thought ye rise; The magic atmosphere, your train enwreathing, Through my thrilled bosom youthful bliss is breathing.
From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Charles Timothy Brooks
The depth of its frieze altogether is eight inches, for it extends four inches below the four-inch parapet above, and this lower portion is worked into a foliage enwreathing the sides.
From The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
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