infold
Example Sentences
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Pauline stood lost in delight; the perfume seemed to float in from the moonlight and infold her.
From Love Works Wonders A Novel by Charlotte M. Brame
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
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
That is— Oh! lest my son should suffer cold, Him in his father’s coat infold, Lest cold should seize my darling fair, For her, her mother’s robe prepare.
From Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Elias Owen
