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Definition of Enwreathes
1. enwreathe [v] - See also: enwreathe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enwreathes
Literary usage of Enwreathes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil, Charles James Billson (1906)
"... and with soft green enwreathes his flowing locks, and binds with gold.
Behind him ring the shafts. So lightly trod Aeneas, and so shone his glorious ..."
2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"A wallowing wave the rocky shoal enwreathes; From the loose spray, cascades of
bubbles fall Down steeps whose watery, coral-mantled wall Drinks of the ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson by James Thomson, James Logie Robertson (1908)
"Xor less the palm of peace enwreathes thy brow : For, powerful as thy sword, from
thy rich tongue 940 Persuasion flows, and wins the high debate ; While ..."
4. The Treatment of Nature in English Poetry Between Pope and Wordsworth by Myra Reynolds (1909)
"... her works complete With all that's beautiful, sublime and great, For him each
Muse enwreathes the laurel crown, And consecrates to fame immortal Brown. ..."
5. The Household Book of Poetry (1879)
"But this small flower, to Nature dear, While moons and stars their courses rim,
enwreathes the circle of the year, Companion of the sun. ..."
6. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"A wallowing wave the rocky shoal enwreathes; From the loose spray, cascades of
bubbles fall Down steeps whose watery, coral-mantled wall Drinks of the ..."
7. Essays and Reviews by Edwin Percy Whipple (1873)
"... that his jests are secreted from the depths of a heart struggling with pity
and sorrow, as foam enwreathes the face of deeply troubled waters. ..."
8. Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American by Benson John Lossing (1854)
"Could ancestral dignity and renown add aught to the coronal that enwreathes the
urn of his memory, it is fully entitled to it, for his relations for several ..."
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