23 collocations for entwining

" He entwined his arms about the being who, for fifteen years, had been his only companion, and pressed his lips to hers.

And still thy grateful homage pay Where Montagu has rear'd her fane; Where eloquence and wit entwine Their attic wreath around her shrine; And still, while Learning shall unfold her store, With their bright signet stamp the classic ore.

Around that prehensile appendage a dozen sharp-nosed, sleek-headed young had entwined their own tails, and were sitting on the mother's back.

Wine o'er the ardent restless mind Entwines its poppy chain; A solace, then, the wretched find.

She lay for awhile watching the orange light of evening gleaming through the creeper that entwined the comer of the stoep outside her window.

[b]each and all Would, in their turns, lend ornaments and flowers To entwine the crook of eloquence that helped 570 This pretty Shepherd, pride of all the plains, To rule and guide his captivated flock.

They consisted of three dishes; the subjects painted on them are, Pan and Apollo, Jupiter and Semele, and on the largest, Apollo surrounded by wreaths of nymphs and satyrs, and on the rim are entwined Cupids: this latter dish is about twenty inches in diameter, and bears an inscription, in Italian, purporting that it was made at Rome, in 1542, in the manufactory of Guido di Merlingho Vassaro, a native of Urbino.

I will: [Sings.] Fond maids, the chosen of their hearts to please, Entwine their ears with sweet [S']irísha flowers, Whose fragrant lips attract the kiss of bees That softly murmur through the summer hours.

But before the Triumvirate could come to a definite decision, it was known that the French troops, by a disgraceful stratagem, had landed and taken possession of Civita Vecchia, General Oudinot entwining the French flag with the Roman tricolor and assuring the Romans that they only came to secure perfect freedom for the people to effect a reconciliation with Pius IX.

He remembered how he had leaned entranced over her chair; how he had pressed her to him in the fury of that wild waltz, her white arms entwined round himthe fragrance of the red roses she wore in her hair mounting to his brain!

Now may Herodotos, up-borne upon the sweet-voiced Muse's shining wings, yet again with wreaths from Pytho and choice wreaths from Alpheos from the Olympian games entwine his hand, and bring honour unto seven-gated Thebes.

The importance of such explications appears from the mistakes which the want of them has occasioned: had Shakespeare had a dictionary of this kind, he had not made the woodbine entwine the honeysuckle; nor would Milton, with such assistance, have disposed so improperly of his ellops and his scorpion.

He sees beyond, umbrageous grots and caves, Where odorous plants entwine their glistening leaves.

Her arms entwined his neck for a second time that night, but with a furious cry he raised his hands and smote her down at his feet, then he fled back to the stairs and plunged down into the billows that raged ahead of the fresh night wind.

HAUNTED The rabbit in his burrow keeps No guarded watch, in peace he sleeps; The wolf that howls in challenging night Cowers to her lair at morning light; The simplest bird entwines a nest Where she may lean her lovely breast, Couched in the silence of the bough.

A second, staring there into space, Mrs. Kaufman sat with her arm still entwining the slender but lax form.

Delusive hopes and vain desires entwine My soul that loves, weeps, burns, and sighs full sore.

The humble yarrow, purple knapweed, field scabious, thistles with bright purple heads, and St. John's wort with its clean-cut stars of burnished gold and its pellucid veins, form a natural border along the hedge, where wild clematis or traveller's joy entwines its rough leaf stalks round the young hazel branches and among the pink roses of the bramble.

And, fronting the bright west, yon oak entwines Its darkening boughs and leaves, in stronger lines.

Happy child of the angel brow, Brighter wreaths entwine thee now; Thy paths are spread thro' fairer bow'rs, Adorned with amaranthine flow'rs, And ever happy thou wilt be, Thro' a blest eternity.

Sometimes our weary feet were relieved from the rough stones and briars by an intervening lawn; and at others we were entirely shrouded from "day's garish eye" by entwining trees.

The home of Arthur Myrvin was indeed one over which peace and love had entwined their roseate wings; a lowly yet a beauteous spot, over which the storms of the busy troubled world might burst, but never reach; and for other sorrows, piety and submission were alike their watchword and their safeguard.

Love's garlands: may they ever entwine the brows of every true-hearted lover.

23 collocations for  entwining