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
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
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 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
The sorrows and joys of the coming day are hidden from our sight, enswathed in the folded hours of toil.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin
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
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
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
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
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
