We could tell that a storm was coming when the clouds began to wreathe the mountain and eventually cover it altogether. From LearnThat.org.
wreathe the grave site. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Where dukes and butchers join to wreathe my crown. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Though April his temples may wreathe with the vine. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
She took a small silver wreathe and pinned it onto me. From Wordnik.com. [i don't care if it's dumb for me to post bright eyes lyrics because whhhhhaaaaattttever.] Reference
White marsh-mists wreathe like clammy arms, death-cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Dreams Poems] Reference
To wreathe the trees they'll touch till leaves will last. From Wordnik.com. [2 Poems] Reference
A wreathe-laying ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetary. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Around the city's storehouses they wreathe and twine and dance. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
I raised the cider and let the apple-spice aroma wreathe my face. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Chaos]
And I love the “new weeds to wreathe with his deciduous bays.”. From Wordnik.com. [“Recent exemplifications of false philology” « Motivated Grammar] Reference
And laugh of glee, and song of mirth, then wreathe their merry twine. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
A sweet spirit will tune the voice, wreathe the countenance in charms. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Myral took another sip of the cider, letting the vapor wreathe his face. From Wordnik.com. [Colors of Chaos]
A sweet spirit will tune the voice and wreathe the countenance in charms. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
The night mist began to steam and wreathe upon the foul beer-colored stream. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
It is but making her a flaunting paradox to wreathe her in gems and flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
They then wreathe their heads with garlands and fling themselves into the sea. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Callistratus, beginning, "I'll wreathe my sword in myrtle bow," are well known. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Will wreathe and whirl with fighting cloud, driven by the wind's fierce breath. From Wordnik.com. [American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany] Reference
Remembering Phigeleia, before every contest I would wreathe it and make some offering. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
The air warmed marginally, and now the usual morning fog began to wreathe among the trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Gryphon]
About 5,000 gallons of fuel spilled in the ship after it hit a wreathe overnight, 1: 00 Eastern time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2004] Reference
He will be part of the arrival ceremony in the Rotunda, and he will give remarks and lay a wreathe, we're told. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2004] Reference
The grey clouds went racing past only a few hundred feet above his head to wreathe about the hills; it was infinitely desolate. From Wordnik.com. [Ruined City]
If, ladies and gentlemen, fame were to wreathe a crown to the memory of such men, there would not be a leaf in it without a name. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1] Reference
Sometimes, indeed, he is awkward, and when he tries to wreathe his thoughts together, they wither like field flowers under his hot touch. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
It is said, that, if a grape-vine be planted in the neighborhood of a well, its roots, running silently underground, wreathe themselves in. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference
They wreathe round thy altars the trophies of war. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Clearings versus the Bush] Reference
To wreathe with wilding flowers their flowing hair. From Wordnik.com. [Enthusiasm and Other Poems] Reference
Shall wreathe her bright harp with the garlands of Moore!. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 09: the Iron Gate and Other Poems] Reference
'Tis now the time to wreathe the brow with branch of myrtle green. From Wordnik.com. [The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace] Reference
An event I never missed is the laying a wreathe on the Newport Cenotaph. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Flynn - Read My Day] Reference
Or must we ever weave and wreathe some creed that shall his face conceal?. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams and Dust] Reference
White's, and neither invoke them to wreathe their brows nor shelter their graves. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference
That was enough to wreathe the skies with glory, and fill the world with sweetness and light. From Wordnik.com. [Andersonville — Volume 4] Reference
Long ere the dawn, the crowds had sought mead and woodland, to cut poles and wreathe flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
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