Take in one's arms

Usage examples of enfold.

Blyth, and Zack, till her vast country bonnet trembled aguishly on her head, the good woman advanced, shaking every moveable object in the room, straight to the tea-table, and enfolded Madonna in her capacious arms.

She rose from the carpet as an old amah came to enfold her in a dressing gown.

What follows, then, is a cheerful parable of your being and your becoming, an apologue of that Emptiness which forever issues forth, unfolding and enfolding, evolving and involving, creating worlds and dissolving them, with each and every breath you take.

The familiar smell of lamp oil, leather and sweat enfolded him as he looked down on the sand-covered armory floor where he had spent so many years, first training to be a warrior, then proving over and over to his men that he was the best fighter in the pack.

Tzigone heaved a sigh of profound relief and enfolded Basel in a quick hug.

If she tosses a dice to decide whether to euthanize herself and James while in Q-space so as to enfold herself into psychospace -- by far the best way to choose, namely by chance --and if one of her selves does indeed toss the number for death, then one of her will definitely die but will not have lived in vain, and one of the remainder will survive.

As the Girdlers came up behind her, one creature enfolded her upper arms in its long hands and set her away almost gently.

The hyacinthine torrent of his hair fell loose around them both, an enfolding curtain.

After having enjoyed, until our strength was almost expiring, the most delightful, the most intense voluptuousness in which mutual ardour can enfold two young, vigorous, and passionate lovers, the young countess dressed herself, and, kissing her slippers, said she would never part with them as long as she lived.

While he enfolded many of the rescued rebels, others were lost entirely.

Every monk of Tekke Vogu was enfolded within the Moment, but it was a bargain.

No more does the terebinth tree enfold its house as if it were a nest against the storm.

Its subject is majesty, not tyranny, and its political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one indivisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

Once enfolded in the foggy embrace, Ambry drooped limply, his face lax and expressionless.

The first, being the most obvious, is a protean diversity enfolding multiferous literary forms and, specific to the fiction, demonstrating startling variations of style, texture, and mood.