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But he would represent the Lord as He lived, he would inweave his whole soul with the being of his Saviour so that he might have a friend in the cell.
From I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross by Rosegger, Peter
My whole existence must inweave itself with it.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
But if I knew, my silken friend, That an old man should wear thee, I The coarsest worsted would inweave, Thy finest silk for dog-grass leave, And all thy knots with nettles tie.”
From Servian Popular Poetry by Bowring, John
The thoughtful reader soon finds this inweaving of a larger purpose adding greatly to the idyllic loveliness of these scenes.
From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis
Ever inweaving, returning, The near grows out of the far; And Homer shall sing once more in a swing Of the austere Polar Star.
From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle
Bearing a skiff, contrived of ribs of whales, For frame work,—these, inwove with fibrous moss, And lined with furs of savage Arctic beasts Which he had slain.
From The Arctic Queen by Unknown
To the ground, With solemn adoration, down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold.
From The Folk-lore of Plants by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)
And all Thy workings are inwove In Thine eternal plan, Which wills the welfare in Thy love, And works the weal of man.
From Verses of Feeling and Fancy by MacKeracher, Wm. M.
Leaving, moreover, every subject on which its nimble tongue had lighted, damaged by that contact—at loose ends, frayed and ravelled, its inwove pattern just slightly discoloured and defaced.
From Deadham Hard by Malet, Lucas
We saw the glittering cavalcade, And heard inwove through all, Faint and afar from star to star, The sliding music fall.
From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by MacLean, Kate Seymour
Coleridge wrote of Shakespeare's imagination "kindling like a meteor... one sentence begetting the next naturally... the meaning all inwoven".
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2016
In both the Iliad and the Odyssey allusion is frequently made to inwoven and embroidered golden textiles.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
Were man to perish when most fit to live, 438 O how misspent were all these stratagems, By skill divine inwoven in our frame!
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward
Visions and odours of her mother frying plaice and soles—at worst, cod or mackerel—were inwoven with her most sacred memories of the coming Sabbath; it is probable she thought Friday was short for frying-day.
From Ghetto Comedies by Zangwill, Israel
The bride was attired in heavy brocaded white silk inwoven with a silver thread.
From Threads of Grey and Gold by Reed, Myrtle
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