enwreathe
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of enwreathe
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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
I gaze upon her beauty Through the tresses that enwreathe it; The light above thy wave, is hers— My rest, alone beneath it: Oh, give me back the dying look My father gave thy water!
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
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
Her head is generally enwreathed with serpents, and she is imagined to be the cause of all the miseries, dissensions, and quarrels, which fall upon the inhabitants of the earth.
From Heathen Mythology by Various
There was nought in the Valley But a Tower of Ivory, Its base enwreathed with red Flowers that at evening Caught the sun's crimson As to Ocean low he sped.
From The Listeners and Other Poems by Walter De la Mare
She took my hand, and I saw her eye follow the soft tracery of pearl-flowers that enwreathed neck, arms, and brow.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
The dagger of the assassin was enwreathed with flowers and exposed for public veneration in the cafe of the Fine Arts.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
It makes such an artistic finish to a church building, finely chiseled in stone, or enwreathed with ivy.
From Quiet Talks on Power by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
Lady Mallowe turned her handsome face, much softened by an enwreathing gauze scarf, toward him anxiously.
From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
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
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
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