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Example sentences for "enfolded"

Lexicographically close words:
enfilading; enfin; enflame; enflamed; enfold; enfolding; enfolds; enforce; enforceable; enforced
  1. The sun sprang up, the golden day enfolded the earth, and at last from the top of a hill he saw afar the spires of Richmond.

  2. The same peace enfolded the Northern army, and it required but little fancy to think that the soldiers there were listening, too.

  3. It hung over the forest and them like something visible that enfolded them.

  4. She enfolded him with her wings and breathed herself into him, infusing her poison into his veins.

  5. When she touched the mute and bloodless body, she enfolded its beloved limbs with her new- formed wings, and tried to give kisses with her horny beak.

  6. Such was Apollo when he slew the livid serpent that enfolded and brake down forests in his dying coils.

  7. The young minister was enfolded in the coils of a fever of some sort, which Brother Soulsby, who had dabbled considerably in medicine, admitted that he was puzzled about.

  8. The spirit of that wonderful music came back to him, enfolded him in its wings.

  9. His arms were trembling as they enfolded her, but in his heart was a gladness that comes to but few men.

  10. London enfolded them in the late evening of a day brewing storm.

  11. Right at that point Mickey's grip tightened until the child in his arms shivered with delight of being so enfolded in her old and only security.

  12. The seeds were earth enfolded in warm black beds, with flower seeds tucked in for borders.

  13. Albano, astonished, enfolded in his arms the love-bond; Liana was drawn to the beloved hearts by the whirlpool of bliss.

  14. Silence enfolded them--a silence that was mutable and disquieting.

  15. Little fronds and scents of it caught hold of Poppy and enfolded her.

  16. So, when Poppy came into it that October day, its brooding spirit enfolded her, and all her life after she was never quite able to lift from her heart the sad, lovely hand of Westminster.

  17. I need not have been nervous, for the strong brown hand, which had never been known to strike a cowardly blow, completely enfolded mine in a gentle caressing clasp.

  18. Caddagat, whereat, enfolded in grandmotherly love and the petting which accrued therefrom, I spent some of my few sweet childish days.

  19. Presently, a great sense of rest enfolded her, a rest ineffably precious because it was so soon to be over.

  20. The evergreens enfolded them in a palpable dusk; but entrancingly near, shimmering under a sunny gleam, stood a company of birches in their first spring wear.

  21. More fiery than ever, she enfolded him in her arms, so that he was impregnated with a flame which he feebly resisted.

  22. An atmosphere had enfolded him, had become as it were part of him, drowning his life in its peculiar influence.

  23. And calm had flowed upon Charmian, had enfolded her almost against her will.

  24. And whilst my thoughts lingered with my brave comrades in Kiao-Chow, and I gratefully recalled the many battles and dangers I had come through in order to fulfil my task to the end, sleep overtook me and enfolded me in its arms.

  25. We stopped at the Great CaƱon of Arizona to admire the mighty wonders of Nature, which enfolded themselves in their glorious beauty.

  26. Then presently all quieted down, and for long moments at a time the still silence enfolded the slope.

  27. Once more the strange, infinite silence enfolded the canyon.

  28. Soft as tender fingers, gentle as the human hand that smooths the awry hair back from the young forehead, Riya's mental caress enfolded Phildee.

  29. Litvinov only had a faint sense of something dangerous behind the mist that gradually enfolded her image.

  30. The fresh night air enfolded Litvinov's flushed face caressingly, the fragrant breeze breathed on his parched lips.

  31. When the seventh self thus spake the other six selves looked with pity upon him but said nothing more; and as the night grew deeper one after the other went to sleep enfolded with a new and happy submission.

  32. Then God leaned over me, and in my ears whispered words of sweetness, and even as the sea that enfoldeth a brook that runneth down to her, he enfolded me.

  33. Mr. Hamilton uttered an exclamation of surprise as he took the third picture from the paper which enfolded it.

  34. Not until they had reached the large room in the third story and had closed the door did she break the silence which enfolded them.

  35. He was floating, enfolded in Margarita's soft bosom, while the world turned gradually sideways.

  36. Then he stopped and quietly enfolded her in his arms.

  37. The anthers of the stamens are often enfolded in the flowers before they are fully expanded, so that the filaments appear bent, till at last they open fully and hang down.

  38. The bud when it first appears is enfolded in a calyx, which is pointed at its upper extremity, and appears to have a kind of rim near its base.

  39. Wherever we strayed the same tranquil leisure enfolded us; day followed day in an order unbroken and peaceful as the unfolding of the flowers and the silent march of the stars.

  40. Friends came and went through the unlatched door; morning broke radiant through the latticed window; the seasons enfolded it with their changing life; our own fellowship of mind and heart made it unspeakably sacred.

  41. The young lady who got out was met at the door by a girl of fourteen who enfolded her in affectionate embraces.

  42. It was not joy, but a deep solemnity which enfolded me as with a garment, and if I ever pass out of it, which I never want to do, I hope it will be with a heart more than ever consecrated and set apart for Christ's service.

  43. Shall you recognise so much multiplying power in a corn of wheat, and not discern the infinitely greater power of multiplication enfolded in a holy life and in a holy thought?

  44. A great peace enfolded her, as a mother enfolds her new-born babe.


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