But the mother motivates him by saying that the house, in the first instance, is for him and her; whether it will
enwomb an altogether different womb (woman) is very much in question.
The most obvious connection is Amavia's description of her husbands early virility as he set off on his journey: "He pricked forth, his puissant force to proue, / Me then he left
enwombed of this child" (II.i.7-8).
(28) The trope of an
enwombed male speaker was not uncommon in the period, but was used as a metaphor for the process of poetic production, rather than the more literal treatment we have here.
After a moment, he threatens to devour Britomart also, but she beats him back, he submits, and their exchange follows: Him selfe before her feete he lowly threw, And gan for grace and loue of her to seeke: Which she accepting, he so neare her drew, That of his game she soone
enwombed grew, And forth did bring a Lion of great might; That shortly did all other beasts subdew: With that she waked, full of fearefull fright, And doubtfully dismayd through that so vneouth sight.
In Sirens, 2006, three big-eyed, waifish nudes are
enwombed by rococo swirls of graphite; one siren pushes against Hammerlein's marks with the palm of her hand, as if to see whether they will give.
Unlike Hyacinth in The Princess Casamassima, who is not only a more richly endowed figure but also someone we get to know long before he is enlisted in the terrorist project, Ahmad is a fully indoctrinated robot from the moment we meet him, disastrously
enwombed in a pathetic and delusional idea whose consequences he has no way of imagining.
His male womb--itself weirdly
enwombed in Ninhursag's--acts as a kind of alembic in which deadly plants are concocted and thereafter magically emerge as divine medicinal agents whose powers to heal are thereby "fixed" in the permanent order of things.
I say I am your mother, And put you in the catalogue of those That were
enwombed mine.
marblelike world
enwombed by a dreadful tho speakable lust
The pipeline will be
enwombed with the proposed Iran-Pak oil refinery, which has a capacity of refining 6 million tonnes of crude oil.
Monetas promise is maternal "as near as an immortal's words / Could to a mother's soften ..." (1.249-50), and the poet tells how he "ached to see what things [her] hollow brain / behind
enwombed ..." (1.277).