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
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 Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
The once free immortal Intelligence thus entangled, enswathed, enchained, works heavily and laboriously through the coatings that enwrap it.
From Death—and After? by Annie Wood Besant
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
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
The grim face of the giant planet was enswathed in endless billowing clouds.
From Pirates of the Gorm 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
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
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
It settles on the soul like the mist on the mountains, enveloping and enswathing it.
From Friendship by Hugh Black
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