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  • This is what they talked about, being crowded out by other cultures, other futures, the all-enfolding will of capital markets and foreign policies.

    Falling Man Don DeLillo 2007

  • Rhavas bowed his head, hoping to know the all-enfolding comfort communion with Phos could bring.

    Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005

  • If the London merchants of our day competed together in writing lyrics they would not, like the Tudor merchants, dance in the open street before the house of the victor; nor do the great ladies of London finish their balls on the pavement before their doors as did the great Venetian ladies, even in the eighteenth century, conscious of an all-enfolding sympathy.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • If the London merchants of our day competed together in writing lyrics they would not, like the Tudor merchants, dance in the open street before the house of the victor; nor do the great ladies of London finish their balls on the pavement before their doors as did the great Venetian ladies, even in the eighteenth century, conscious of an all-enfolding sympathy.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • If the London merchants of our day competed together in writing lyrics they would not, like the Tudor merchants, dance in the open street before the house of the victor; nor do the great ladies of London finish their balls on the pavement before their doors as did the great Venetian ladies, even in the eighteenth century, conscious of an all-enfolding sympathy.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • If the London merchants of our day competed together in writing lyrics they would not, like the Tudor merchants, dance in the open street before the house of the victor; nor do the great ladies of London finish their balls on the pavement before their doors as did the great Venetian ladies, even in the eighteenth century, conscious of an all-enfolding sympathy.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • It was her duty to fight death-but not when her patient pursued it, and had good reason to welcome its all-enfolding wings.

    The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • If the London merchants of our day competed together in writing lyrics they would not, like the Tudor merchants, dance in the open street before the house of the victor; nor do the great ladies of London finish their balls on the pavement before their doors as did the great Venetian ladies, even in the eighteenth century, conscious of an all-enfolding sympathy.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • If the London merchants of our day competed together in writing lyrics they would not, like the Tudor merchants, dance in the open street before the house of the victor; nor do the great ladies of London finish their balls on the pavement before their doors as did the great Venetian ladies, even in the eighteenth century, conscious of an all-enfolding sympathy.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • Nature did take him back into that all-enfolding heart where there is room and a welcome for all who do not alienate themselves.

    The Redemption of David Corson Charles Frederic Goss

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