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inshrine
[ in-shrahyn ]
inshrine
/ ɪnˈʃraɪn /
verb
- a variant spelling of enshrine
Example Sentences
Poeta, who was in love with Historia, capriciously falls in love with Astronomia, and thus compares his mistress:— Her brow is like a brave heroic line That does a sacred majestie inshrine; Her nose, Phaleuciake-like, in comely sort, Ends in a Trochie, or a long and short.
Shall the poet, then, inshrine his visions as William Blake did, for his own delight, and leave us unenlightened by his apocalypse?
Think what thou hast to do; And be it done before the damp cold earth Inshrine thy body.
Not Babilon, Nor great Alcairo such magnificence Equal'd in all thir glories, to inshrine Belus or Serapis thir Gods, or seat 720 Thir Kings, when Aegypt with Assyria strove In wealth and luxurie.
So closely is he linked with it that his guardian spirit, no unsubstantial creation of the fancy, is usually embodied in the form of some living thing—a bear, a wolf, an eagle, or a serpent; and Mene-Seela, as he gazed intently on the old pine tree, might believe it to inshrine the fancied guide and protector of his life.
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