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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
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
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
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 Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb
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
He deliberately inwove His life into all that is commonest in life.
From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Grenville Kleiser
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
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
It rose and fell in eddies, swirling wreaths, and undulations; inwoven with starbeams, as with golden thread, it clothed him about in circles of some magical primordial substance.
From Jimbo A Fantasy by Algernon Blackwood
Of what avail are alms-giving, and individual benevolence, and even the offices of Religion, in the presence of evil so gigantic and so inwoven with the very framework of Society?
From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley
Far in advance of anything that Greece can offer, the intellectual history of India furnishes systems at once consistent and imposing—systems not remaining useless speculations, but becoming inwoven in social life.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
Dresses were frequently adorned with inwoven patterns and attached borders and embroideries.
From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll
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