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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
She loves to feel the tears upon her cheek, Like a rich veil, with pearls inwove.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus
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 and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
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
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
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
Really," I exclaimed, "the natural history is good, and is fairly inwoven with the tale.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
Art in those days was closely inwoven with the life of the people; they lived artistic lives.
From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain
But his ideas of the dignity of his art were so inwoven into his character that he probably met calamity bravely.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various
In this play, and in this scene of it, are also shown the springs of the vulgar in politics,—of that kind of politics which is inwoven with human nature.
From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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