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
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
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
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
He was smiling at the red and green tissue paper that enswathed the central chandelier.
From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
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 Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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
The stars were paling now, the purple sky was enswathing itself in pearly grays.
From Slaves of Mercury by Nathan Schachner
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 Hugh Black
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
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