infold

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To involve is, literally, to infold, not to bring about, nor cause to ensue.

From Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Bierce, Ambrose

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 Arthur, Frances Browne

A great hush brooded around; and yet not so awful was that intense stillness as the solemn calm which seemed to infold the quiet figure sitting so silently in the midst.

From Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life by Beaumont, Grace

The mountains that infold, In their wide sweep, the colored landscape round, Seem groups of giant kings, in purple and gold, That guard the enchanted ground.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

In thee, Diana, I have always hop'd, And still I hope in thee, who didst infold Within the holy shelter of thine arm The outcast daughter of the mighty king.

From Iphigenia in Tauris by Swanwick, Anna