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- verb Present participle of
enwind .
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Examples
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In Travelling Companions is foreshadowed Jamess later skill in the description of ancient landscape and architecture; in At Isella, his habit of rounding out a story from the most flying hint; and in The Sweetheart of Mr. Briseux, at least in patches, his smoothly ironical, dexterously enwinding style.
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For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
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For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.
Quotations 1919
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For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.
Quotations 1919
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For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.
Quotations 1919
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For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
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For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.
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Similarly appropriate and suggestive was the new linen cloth, which Joseph bought expressly for the purpose of enwinding the body.
The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion James Stalker 1887
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For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death_.
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation Various 1878
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Britannia's mournful anticipation, that 'The shroud enwinding this my son is mine!'
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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