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
The once free immortal Intelligence thus entangled, enswathed, enchained, works heavily and laboriously through the coatings that enwrap it.
From Death—and After? by Annie Wood Besant
She tumbled it about, all the time wrapping it with the issuing band of silk, until it was completely enswathed.
From Insect Stories by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
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
One object—that occupying the place of honour—was carefully enswathed.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
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
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
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
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
It settles on the soul like the mist on the mountains, enveloping and enswathing it.
From Friendship by Hugh Black
The stars were paling now, the purple sky was enswathing itself in pearly grays.
From Slaves of Mercury by Nathan Schachner
