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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 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
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
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
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
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
Adown his neck, with myrtle-buds inwove And Syrian dews, his unshorn tresses flow: White is he as the moon in heaven above, But rose is blent with snow.
From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Theodore C. Williams
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
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
Dresses were frequently adorned with inwoven patterns and attached borders and embroideries.
From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll
It is a quality of my fibre, divinely inwoven like mind in matter.
From Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real by Louis Zangwill
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 Edward Young
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