infold

Example Sentences

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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

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

What but the love of God infold them when father and mother had failed.

From In Wild Rose Time by Douglas, Amanda M.

In good sooth our late queen did infold them all together.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy

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