"Enfolding" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... plate and went to the window. Beyond the mountains, somewhere in "God's acre," was the little sunken grave still enfolding a handful of sacred dust. With a sudden throb of pain, Allison realised, for the first time in his life, that his father was an old man. The fine, strong face, outlined clearly by the pitiless afternoon ...
— Old Rose and Silver • Myrtle Reed
... The human person usually manages to miss nearly everything but the appearance of things. A few of us are so fortunate as to have ears attuned to the harmonies woven on the wind by trees and birds and water; but the tricky weft of odors that lies closest of all, enfolding the very bosom of the earth, escapes us. A little dog, traveling with his nose low, lives in another stratum of the world, and experiences other pleasures than his master. He has excitements that he does his best to share, and that send him flying ...
— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson
... were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense bearing tree, And here were forests, ancient as the hills Enfolding sunny spots ...
— Medieval People • Eileen Edna Power
... see the moon's white fingers, That leads the pleading sea? Can you see the fragrance lingering Where summer roses be? The soft winds tender clasping, The close-enwrapping air Enfolding you—Oh, Laurence, I am with ...
— Poems • Marietta Holley
... last words with his arms closely enfolding her. She turned with sudden impulse and clasped him ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell
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