infold

Example Sentences

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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 Bierce, Ambrose

Dear heart, we could not hold him; Yet secretly your arms and mine infold him— ��Our little child who does not go away.

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry

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

With fairest images of dreams infold him, Plunge him in seas of sweet untruth!

From Faust by Taylor, Bayard

Beat the mixture to infold oxygen, and then put in one-quarter cake of yeast plants.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management by Ontario. Ministry of Education