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 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
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
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
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 Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
No sooner was the bee enswathed than a second bee was liberated in the cage and caught in the web.
From Insect Stories by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
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
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
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
The stars were paling now, the purple sky was enswathing itself in pearly grays.
From Slaves of Mercury by Nathan Schachner
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 George Gibbs
