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
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 Withrow, William Henry
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
Roll out, O seas! in sunlight bathed, Your plains wind-tossed, and grass enswathed.
From Flint and Feather by Johnson, E. Pauline
Nov. 23, 9:30 a.m.; another bee released in cage, caught in web and enswathed approximately thirty turns by Argiope.
From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
The grim face of the giant planet was enswathed in endless billowing clouds.
From Pirates of the Gorm by Schachner, Nathan
Her fascination was fast enswathing me like another Jones, only a thousandfold more sweetly.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
The stars were paling now, the purple sky was enswathing itself in pearly grays.
From Slaves of Mercury by Schachner, Nathan
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)
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
It settles on the soul like the mist on the mountains, enveloping and enswathing it.
From Friendship by Black, Hugh
