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Example sentences for "enfolding"

Lexicographically close words:
enfin; enflame; enflamed; enfold; enfolded; enfolds; enforce; enforceable; enforced; enforcement
  1. Camelia's brows lifted a little; the enfolding continuing she was conscious enough of a dart of irritation to wish to add, "I don't love her!

  2. Since her husband's death she had worn black, and even now it seemed to invade her delicate whiteness rather overwhelmingly, rising closely about her throat, falling over her fragile hands, enfolding her with a soft solemnity.

  3. The noblest and best of all webs or states is that which the royal science weaves, combining the two sorts of natures in a single texture, and in this enfolding freeman and slave and every other social element, and presiding over them all.

  4. Thou who canst pluck the maid from her mother's enfolding, pluck from her mother's enfolding the firm-clinging maid, and canst give the chaste girl to the burning youngster.

  5. To feel his arm enfolding her, and all that that meant to them both.

  6. She was so limp, however, that he had almost to carry her, and the feel of her unconscious sobs under his enfolding arm quickened his blood again.

  7. Removing the enfolding wrappers, he discovered that the contents of the bundle were complete maps of the country surrounding Washington, with a correct statement of the number and location of the Federal troops.

  8. North, enfolding her in his arms, strove to soothe her with incoherent words of comfort.

  9. Weary with the invariable earth, the restless sailor breaks from every enfolding arm, and puts to sea in height of tempest that blows off shore.

  10. It might have been that the intense agony of the moment opened his interior senses, for he became conscious that some glorious light, not of the world, was enfolding him in its radiance.

  11. They were rather silent, conversation broken by periods when their mingled footfalls beat clear on the large, enfolding mutter of the city sinking to sleep.

  12. Their paths, wandering and uncertain, had met, converging on some higher level, where they stood together in a deep, enfolding security.

  13. The silence of the house, the large outer silence enfolding it, answered him.

  14. The moonlight shone through the trees and fell fantastically on the young man's face and figure and on Karen, sitting upright, her little shawl of white knitted wool drawn closely about her shoulders and enfolding her arms.

  15. She murmured, while Karen knelt enfolding her, "His dead face rises before me.

  16. In past time it was a distinct principality, small but defiant, and it had its own line of hereditary viscounts entirely independent of the larger province enfolding it.

  17. She remembers little after that, but the enfolding tenderness which secured the fulfilment of her hope.

  18. It destroys the enfolding fictions which shield without concealing the earlier stages of intellectual truth.

  19. So saying he sprang to his feet and enfolding Fidunia in his arms, pressed her fiercely to his breast.

  20. Dense clouds were enfolding the peaks of the mountains and creeping like soft monsters along the sides, filling the deep precipices with damp moving masses which were all coming towards him ready to swallow him up.

  21. A long cloak of some indescribable shade flowed down, enfolding the Virgin's ethereal limbs.

  22. There is no Chance, no Fate; but God's Great Providence, enfolding the whole Universe in its bosom, and feeding it with everlasting life.

  23. In Indo-China the belt begins to broaden, enfolding China, Japan and Turkistan.

  24. In the stern the old chief swayed with every rush of the boat, one sinewy hand clinched on the tiller, the other enfolding a little child.

  25. The sound of the motors of the amphibian had long since been lost and twilight was enfolding the valley.

  26. Throwing his strength into the effort, he lunged forward, his outstretched arms enfolding the legs of the intruder.

  27. Souls cannot live outside of God's enfolding energies, and therefore they cannot avoid making either heaven or hell out of His infinite powers.

  28. Man awakens in God's enfolding energies, and not outside them; for outside of God he could not exist.

  29. If our every line of vision converges to this end, our insight gives us God as the great enfolding reality.

  30. To me, worship is the deeper penetration into that Will in whose enfolding energies I live and move and have my being.

  31. If there were no individuals in the universe to oppose God's will and so misuse His enfolding energies as to harm one another, hell would cease to be.

  32. In the same way, if we live at all it is in our Father's enfolding instrument.

  33. The child never works apart from his Father's enfolding powers.

  34. Since heaven or hell is simply the shape we give to God's enfolding energies, all of us are unavoidably engaged in constructing the one or the other, and we have been so engaged every moment since our conscious life began.

  35. Living as he does in his Father's enfolding energies, he can know himself, and grow himself, only so far as he makes the instruments of his Father's will the instruments of his own will.

  36. I could see that if one would bring all his powers into harmony, and then relate them to the beautiful enfolding universe, all things must work together for his good,--if by his good one meant the perfect unfolding of his life.

  37. Or, if we could know all His loving thoughts and higher purposes concerning His children, who are striving and building in the midst of these simple, enfolding energies, we should know what God is doing in the moral realm.

  38. Not only was He in the thick of the fight, but the thick of the fight was in His beautiful, enfolding energies.

  39. He tried to shake off Lizzi's enfolding arms, but they held him firmly.

  40. She clasped her hands, enfolding in them the letter, and sat still, listening to her heart beating a reveille for the sunrise of certainty.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enfolding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.