infold
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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
In good sooth our late queen did infold them all together.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
O, well for the fortunate soul Which Music’s wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows new and old!
From May-Day and Other Pieces by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 Maud Howe Elliott
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
