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Washington was a soldier and a statesman, but he was not an original discoverer of the world within himself, and an unfolder of that world from his own inner being.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

He was "the sagacious unfolder of truth, the accurate and bold discoverer of popular error."

From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Bradlaugh, Charles

Has such an unfolder of the mysteries of Nature, though he may have forgotten his former self, ever noticed the early, obstinate, and unappeasable inquisitiveness of Children upon the subject of origination?

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

Joy is the great lifter of men, the great unfolder.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage