infold

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She stood looking down on his bowed head with a tenderness that seemed to infold him as with a mantle.

From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha

He lends his gaze evasively Over the printed page that she Recurs to, with a new-moon shoulder Glimpsed from the lace-mists that infold her.

From Afterwhiles by Riley, James Whitcomb

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

From this it is manifest that this society cannot hope to infold, or at least to organically bind to itself, men whose objects of research are so diverse.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various

Thy pale page, Study, by thy side doth hold, As by Cyprigna's her persuasive boy: Twin sacks thou bear'st; one doth thy gifts infold, Whose modest tendering proves immortal joy.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe