infold

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A mad love, indeed; she went nearer to the gleaming waters; they seemed to rise and infold her; the water-lilies seemed to hold her up.

From A Mad Love by Brame, Charlotte M.

Thy pale page, Study, by thy side doth hold, As by Cyprigna's her persuasive boy: Twin sacks thou bear'st; one doth thy gifts infold, Whose modest tendering proves immortal joy.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

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

What but the love of God infold them when father and mother had failed.

From In Wild Rose Time by Douglas, Amanda M.

The poet must hasten on, he must infold and bind together, he must be direct and synthetic in every act.

From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John