infold
Example Sentences
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Gay rainbow silks her mellow charms infold, And nought of Lyce but herself is old.
From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Edward Young
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
To involve is, literally, to infold, not to bring about, nor cause to ensue.
From Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Ambrose Bierce
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 Richard Henry Stoddard
All around the pines rose straight and tall, like gaunt giant forms flinging out long, skeleton arms eager to infold them in a cruel clasp.
From Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls by Frances Browne Arthur
