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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 John Bowring
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 Peter Rosegger
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
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 Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
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 George Willis Cooke
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 Wm. M. MacKeracher
A vassal prone Before the Sar now placed the stool of gold, Arranged his royal robes with glittering fold Of laces, fringes rich inwove with pearls, Embroidered with quaint figures, curious twirls.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous
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 Lucas Malet
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
And eke with painful fingers she inwove Many an uncouth stem of savage thorn— "The willow garland, that was for her love, And these her bleeding temples would adorn."
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb
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
Her chestnut hair, rippled at the temples, was gathered into a heavy, shining knot at the back of her head, and inwoven with the varnished, heart-shaped leaves of the smilax.
From International Short Stories American by Various
But it seems as if John Talbot had been so inwoven with the very woof of their lives that no anecdote of their little past is complete without it.
From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton
Art in those days was closely inwoven with the life of the people; they lived artistic lives.
From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain
The observance of Good Friday is inwoven into the very texture of the Christian Religion, having been kept from the very first age of Christianity with strictest fasting and humiliation.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by William James Miller
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