infold

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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 Arthur, Frances Browne

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 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

Not one save him—him—whose love had broken down all barriers that it might reach and infold her.

From Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame by Allen, James Lane

In thee, Diana, I have always hoped, And still I hope in thee, who didst infold Within the holy shelter of thine arm The outcast daughter of the mighty king.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno