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 Gilbert Parker
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 Hiram Corson
She enswathed it fifty times, bit it, and then wrapped it with five more silken sheets, making fifty-five wrappings in all.
From Insect Stories by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
There the linen cloths are, just as they had enswathed the body, but flattened down, showing the absence of anything inside their folds.
From Quiet Talks about Jesus by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
A dead Christ enswathed and cold, A Christ that did not rise.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
Roll out, O seas! in sunlight bathed, Your plains wind-tossed, and grass enswathed.
From Flint and Feather by E. Pauline Johnson
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 John McGovern
Her fascination was fast enswathing me like another Jones, only a thousandfold more sweetly.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
It settles on the soul like the mist on the mountains, enveloping and enswathing it.
From Friendship by Hugh Black
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 Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
Its limits are broad; broad as the home of man; with its enswathing atmosphere added.
From Quiet Talks on Prayer by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
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
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