infold

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But you, like Pallas, ev'ry limb infold With royal robes, and bid him shine in gold; Touched by your hand his manly frame improves65 With grace divine, and like a god he moves.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

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 Francke, Kuno

Be wholly good to us, just as of old: As a pleased father, let thine arms infold Us, homed within the haven of thy love, And all the cheer and wholesomeness thereof.

From Afterwhiles by Riley, James Whitcomb