infold

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All that glisters is not gold, Gilded tombs do worms infold.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

O, well for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows new and old!

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The mountains that infold, In their wide sweep, the colored landscape round, Seem groups of giant kings, in purple and gold, That guard the enchanted ground.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

Young Carleton, believing there was nothing for him to do, spread his blanket near the fire, and, lying down, so as to infold himself from head to feet, was not long in sinking into slumber.

From Footprints in the Forest by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

To some indeed there appeared no danger; but to others the dragon stained with his mother's blood appeared bent to infold in his closest toils the daughter of Tyndarus.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides