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
She tumbled it about, all the time wrapping it with the issuing band of silk, until it was completely enswathed.
From Insect Stories by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)
No other thing is more enswathed in the unknown.
From The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert Newton
One object—that occupying the place of honour—was carefully enswathed.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart
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)
Her fascination was fast enswathing me like another Jones, only a thousandfold more sweetly.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
The stars were paling now, the purple sky was enswathing itself in pearly grays.
From Slaves of Mercury by Schachner, Nathan
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)
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
It settles on the soul like the mist on the mountains, enveloping and enswathing it.
From Friendship by Black, Hugh
