had enfolded
- past perfect of enfold.
Example Sentences
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In Israel the emigrants suddenly sensed the loss of a double cocoon that had enfolded them.
From Time Magazine Archive
And when at last I opened my eyes the silence which had enfolded me had given place to a pervasive murmur, the sound from the suppliant lips and beseeching throats of the multitude.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Alas! she loved, honoured, and admired him, as her upright, unselfish, uncompromising husband, but worries, and rebukes, and tart answers, had made many a rent in the veil in which her fancy had enfolded him.
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Did some memory of the arms that had enfolded her so often and so tenderly come to her as she realized it?
From The Rocks of Valpre by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
An atmosphere had enfolded him, had become as it were part of him, drowning his life in its peculiar influence.
From The Way of Ambition by Soper, J. H. Gardner
