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
Keep the body enswathed in the double poultice, but don't let the emulsion touch his skin directly.
From David Lockwin—The People's Idol by John McGovern
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
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 F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
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
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 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
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
The stars were paling now, the purple sky was enswathing itself in pearly grays.
From Slaves of Mercury by Nathan Schachner
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
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
