tissued

Example Sentences

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A man's mother is so tissued and woven into his life and brain that he can no more describe her than describe the air and sunlight that bless his days.

From Mince Pie by Morley, Christopher

And the Chamberlain and the high officers of State came in and made obeisance to him, and the pages brought him the robe of tissued gold, and set the crown and the sceptre before him.

From A House of Pomegranates by Wilde, Oscar

Does she steer the tissued clouds "with radiant feet," or does she steer herself down the tissued clouds?

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

Yea, everything ran with sunshine, as we are full of blood, and plants are tissued from green-gold, glistening sap.

From The Trespasser by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

At length an individual figure among the tissued huntsmen, as he gazed upon them more fixedly, seemed to leave the arras and to approach the bed of the slumberer.

From The Antiquary — Volume 01 by Scott, Walter, Sir