infold

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Pauline stood lost in delight; the perfume seemed to float in from the moonlight and infold her.

From Love Works Wonders A Novel by Brame, Charlotte M.

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

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

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 Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Oh, well for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows new and old!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 by Various