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
The Locust is then perceived and forthwith enswathed, after which the signalling-thread is remade, taking the place of the one which I have broken.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
The sorrows and joys of the coming day are hidden from our sight, enswathed in the folded hours of toil.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart
Keep the body enswathed in the double poultice, but don't let the emulsion touch his skin directly.
From David Lockwin—The People's Idol by McGovern, John
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
Roll out, O seas! in sunlight bathed, Your plains wind-tossed, and grass enswathed.
From Flint and Feather by Johnson, E. Pauline
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
It settles on the soul like the mist on the mountains, enveloping and enswathing it.
From Friendship by Black, Hugh
From the bed he took the baron’s sheets and blankets, enswathing the unfortunate servant until nothing but the tip of his nose was visible.
From The Maker of Opportunities by Gibbs, George
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)
