Example Sentences

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There is no movement but where faint smoke is wreathing slowly across the deserted streets.

From Old Junk by Ratcliffe, S. K. (Samuel Kerkham)

She will read to Tom for hours on hours, And sit with him on the grass all day; You see she is wreathing pretty flowers, About his neck, in her pleasant play.

From Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Unknown

She will read to Tom for hours on hours, And sit with him on the grass all day; You see she is wreathing pretty flowers About his neck, in her pleasant play.

From Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Unknown

See!" cried Katherine, with girlish delight, "see, my cousin! see, Barnstable! how beautifully that vapor is wreathing itself in clouds above the smoky line of fog!

From The Pilot by Cooper, James Fenimore