Verb (used with object) : to enfold someone in a cloak. ,He wished to enfold her in the warmth of his love. What happened is enfolded in mystery. ,She enfolded him in her arms. ,The material of the skirt had been enfolded to form a loose, graceful drape. From Dictionary.com.
Realized the feeling enfolding her was contentment. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
And be fed with many kisses my enfolding arms within. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
When the tether 's enfolding, be my pastime for ever!. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
And I'll remember your hands enfolding a bowl of moonstones. From Wordnik.com. [Reflections in a Crystal Wind] Reference
She glanced at his enfolding hands and then raised her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
England is seen ahead lying in the lap of its enfolding hills. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
She could not help it with a love like that enfolding her life. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
The feeling of dread passed, but the enfolding silence was broken. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
Then with both her hands enfolding both of his, she softly told him. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
He is living within that marvellous, all-enfolding charm and radiance. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
"Oh, my," she whispered, her fingers enfolding him like velvety petals. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
"Bless ye, deary!" crooned the little old woman, enfolding Ruth in her arms. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
Jake sat beside her, still enfolding her trembling fingers with his steady ones. From Wordnik.com. [What Dreams May Come]
He swooped in, enfolding her in a full-body embrace and lifting her off her feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunting]
Promptly came another, and most distorted version; its peculiar refrain enfolding. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We scratch our heads at the crazy circus that is enfolding us. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2005] Reference
Families grouped themselves together, enfolding each other in a last loving embrace. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
She had no illusions about the enfolding in the "cool and comforting arms of death.". From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Mrs. Hennessy said, enfolding Josephine in a hug and looking back along the driveway. From Wordnik.com. [Unlikely Duchess]
More than this, though, she remembered his arms enfolding her at the palace of Hekabe. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
When the attendant priestesses entered, she was pale as the white silk enfolding her form. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Rhavas bowed his head, hoping to know the all-enfolding comfort communion with Phos could bring. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
"Darling, why should you fear love now?" responded Don Carlos tenderly, enfolding her in his arms. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
He slid under the instrument panel into his seat and settled back, glad of its enfolding stability. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
He held out his arms and she fell into them, enfolding them both in her wings, her great and glorious wings. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
Presently the girl slipped from the enfolding arms, and, clinging to the man's hands, looked up into his face. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
A miniature knife, enfolding 75 articles, which weigh but 7 dwts., exquisitely wrought and valued at 50 guineas. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829] Reference
But Ishmael, sick with fear, was crouching down, trying to shield both eyes and ears at the same time with his enfolding arms. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
One morning Gus was much astonished to receive a letter containing a blank sheet of notepaper enfolding a postal order for £1. From Wordnik.com. [Acton's Feud A Public School Story] Reference
Nature did take him back into that all-enfolding heart where there is room and a welcome for all who do not alienate themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
There are loving hearts that would pay any price to be freed from the self-enfolding toils that wrap them in these crisis hours. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
But the poor child paid little heed to her suggestions, a foreshadowing of some direful calamity constantly enfolding and saddening her. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
At the foot of the valley up which we had come yesterday, and partly screened by the intruding buttresses of its enfolding hills, the Wular. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
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