enswathe
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Rosy and proud are the skies of the East, Love-dowered moons to enswathe thee, delight thee: Thy days and our days—are thine then the least, O Aphrodite?
From Embers, Complete by Parker, Gilbert
Ay, if words never needed enswathe aught But ignorance, impudence, envy And malice—what word-swathe would then vie With yours for a clearness crystalline?
From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Corson, Hiram
Not his friends; for they would have taken the cerements and wrappings with which Joseph and Nicodemus had enswathed it.
From John the Baptist by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)
Roll out, O seas! in sunlight bathed, Your plains wind-tossed, and grass enswathed.
From Flint and Feather by Johnson, E. Pauline
A dead Christ enswathed and cold, A Christ that did not rise.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean
The once free immortal Intelligence thus entangled, enswathed, enchained, works heavily and laboriously through the coatings that enwrap it.
From Death—and After? by Besant, Annie Wood
The grim face of the giant planet was enswathed in endless billowing clouds.
From Pirates of the Gorm by Schachner, Nathan
Its limits are broad; broad as the home of man; with its enswathing atmosphere added.
From Quiet Talks on Prayer by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)
Her fascination was fast enswathing me like another Jones, only a thousandfold more sweetly.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
Connect′ively.—Connective tissue, one of the four sets of the commonest classification of animal tissues, including a great variety—e.g. bone, cartilage, ligaments, and enswathing membranes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
With her hind legs Argiope turned the bee over and over twenty-five or twenty-six times, thus enswathing it with twenty-five or twenty-six wrappings of the silken sheet.
From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
The stars were paling now, the purple sky was enswathing itself in pearly grays.
From Slaves of Mercury by Schachner, Nathan
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