infold
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Such was her form as ancient bards have told, Wings raise her arms, and wings her feet infold; A thousand busy tongues the goddess bears, A thousand open eyes, and thousand listening ears.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by George Gilfillan
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 Frances Browne Arthur
O, well for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows new and old!
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
He lends his gaze evasively Over the printed page that she Recurs to, with a new-moon shoulder Glimpsed from the lace-mists that infold her.
From Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley
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 Kuno Francke
