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 Ambrose Bierce
What but the love of God infold them when father and mother had failed.
From In Wild Rose Time by Amanda M. Douglas
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 Bertha Runkle
A great hush brooded around; and yet not so awful was that intense stillness as the solemn calm which seemed to infold the quiet figure sitting so silently in the midst.
From Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life by Grace Beaumont
The mountains that infold, In their wide sweep, the coloured landscape round, Seem groups of giant kings, in purple and gold, That guard the enchanted ground.
From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education
