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.
What but the love of God infold them when father and mother had failed.
But for the poor little girl playing at motherhood there was no one to come in and infold her in restful arms, and comfort her when the long, warm day ended.
Choosing the fortress of Wuerzburg, and later that of Forchheim, as his point of support, he determined to concentrate his force on the extreme right of his line and infold the enemy from the east.
Here is proof that one of them, one who counted on an audience too, did find himself compelled to infold his richer and bolder meanings in the manner described.
His back and breast Well-temper'd steel and scaly brass invest: The cuishes which his brawny thighs infold Are mingled metal damask'd o'er with gold.
Here his gigantic limbs, with large embrace, Infold nine acres of infernal space.
Pauline stood lost in delight; the perfume seemed to float in from the moonlight and infold her.
He saw the dark eyes grow soft with good thoughts; he saw the silent, proud defiance die out of the beautiful face; the lips quivered, sweet humility seemed to fall over her and infold her.
All around the pines rose straight and tall, like gaunt giant forms flinging out long, skeleton arms eager to infoldthem in a cruel clasp.
Never a shadow of compunction crosses the leprous soul, as he stretches forth his arms to infold the clean woman!
AT DAWN Turn to thy window in the silver hour That day comes stepping down the hills of night, Infolded as the leaves infold a flower By all her rose-leaf robes of misty light.
Then he endeavored to infoldhis father in his embrace, but his arms inclosed only an unsubstantial shade.
Noble Banquo, That hast no less deserved, nor must be known No less to have done so; let me infold thee And hold thee to my heart.
Not I; unless the breath of heartsick groans, Mist-like infold me from the search of eyes.
Some of the tropical stony corals are like big anemones, several inches across; and it is only when they infold all their richly colored tentacles and become a dull and shapeless lump that their stony cup is revealed.
When harm threatens, or when they crave rest, they withdraw all their gorgeous tentacles, infold them within their mouth, and shrink down into roundish gray lumps that attract neither the eye nor the appetite of any marauder.
For Iris had no mother to infold her, Nor ever leaned upon a sister's shoulder, Telling the twilight thoughts that Nature told her.
