wove
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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And o’er the face of the deep cave a vine Wove its wild tangles and clustering grapes.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
And as she sweetly breathed, the hours Wove, like a robe of gossamer, All grace about her, while the flowers Their tints and perfumes gave to her.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various
They slept to dream of glory and delight, While the pale fingers of the pitying night Wove ghostly winding sheets for that doomed score Who, ere another eve, should sleep to wake no more.
From Custer, and Other Poems. by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
He sank to raptness as of yore, And opening New Year’s Day Wove it by rote as theretofore, And went on working evermore In his unweeting way.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
Give her a ballad to keep, Wove of the passionate West: Give it and say of the hours— "Haunted and hallowed of thee, Flower-like woman of flowers, What shall the end of them be?"
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry
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