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
No sooner was the bee enswathed than a second bee was liberated in the cage and caught in the web.
From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
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 Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
He was smiling at the red and green tissue paper that enswathed the central chandelier.
From The Story of Louie by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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 Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)
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)
It settles on the soul like the mist on the mountains, enveloping and enswathing it.
From Friendship by Black, Hugh
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 Gibbs, George
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 Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
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
