"Enfolding" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was driest, and to me looked the rottenest and weakest, I found to be much the strongest. Upon examination of its parts, I discovered it to be composed of an infinite number of small threads, spirally overlaying and enfolding one another. ...
— Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) • Robert Paltock
... through him, not as a reflection but a bodily sensation. Meantime his eyes and thoughts and fears, were fixed upon the watchful figures; which, rendered unlike any figures of this world by the deep gloom and shade enwrapping and enfolding them, as well as by their looks and forms and supernatural hovering above the floor, were nevertheless as plainly to be seen as were the stalwart oaken frames, cross-pieces, bars and beams, set up there to support the Bells. These hemmed them, in a very forest of hewn timber; from the entanglements, ...
— The Chimes • Charles Dickens
... of all terrestrial things—still holding Thy wrinkled forehead high; Whose every scam, earth's history enfolding, Grim ...
— The Conquest of the Old Southwest • Archibald Henderson
... if the land was covered with snow," as the historians put it. There was nothing for it but to face these fearful odds, and, weakened as they were, the remnant of the Spanish force, encouraged by their leader and exhorted by their priest, fell valiantly on. They were soon wrapped in the enfolding masses of the savages, who attacked them with the utmost ferocity. The cavalry fell back; the Spaniards were stricken on every side, and absolute disaster hung over them. "We believed it to be our last day," Cortes wrote to Spain afterwards. ...
— Mexico • Charles Reginald Enock
... so mild and fair This enfolding Autumn seems; All my moody languor dreams, Cradled by the ...
— Poems of Paul Verlaine • Paul Verlaine
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