enswathe
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It settles on the soul like the mist on the mountains, enveloping and enswathing it.
From Friendship by Hugh Black
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
