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
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 F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
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
The "walls" of the shaft collapsed about them and they were enswathed in a raging storm of red clouds.
From Pirates of the Gorm by Nathan Schachner
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
His short and obese figure is enswathed in the folds of an ample crimson-bordered toga, or fine linen vestment of flowing folds.
From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow
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
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
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
The stars were paling now, the purple sky was enswathing itself in pearly grays.
From Slaves of Mercury by Nathan Schachner
