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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 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
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
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
To the ground, With solemn adoration, down they cast Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold.
From The Folk-lore of Plants by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer
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
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
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
The rich stuffs with inscriptions inwoven in gold, in the Middle Ages, were called “literatis.”
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
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
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
The cool night breeze came in at the open window, the leaves whispered as it passed, and at intervals the deep voice of London ran like an undertone inwoven with the music.
From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson
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