infold

Example Sentences

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His back and breast Well-temper'd steel and scaly brass invest: The cuishes which his brawny thighs infold Are mingled metal damask'd o'er with gold.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

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

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

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

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

Oh! speechless transport! mute let me infold thee!

From The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage by Moses, Montrose Jonas