infold

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A mad love, indeed; she went nearer to the gleaming waters; they seemed to rise and infold her; the water-lilies seemed to hold her up.

From A Mad Love by Brame, Charlotte M.

All that glisters is not gold, Gilded tombs do worms infold.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

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

From In Wild Rose Time by Douglas, Amanda M.

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 Runkle, Bertha

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