Out of the reigning green, had grown a boundless river of softly shimmering globeseach one enfolded in a wondrous fleece of pure cloud.

If the latter, it means to enfold with a pall; but Cleveland uses impale in the same sense

The kind of cabbage which is found at the top of this tree, enfolded within its leaves, forms an excellent sustenance; but, although the stalk of the tree was not thicker than a man's leg, it was above sixty feet in height.

Their loose and large robes typify the enfolding of the firmament by the light and the winds.

The valley with its foot against this mountainous ridge, put out its right arm and enfolded to its bosom a little, beautiful world of its own of about fifty miles girth.

Gradually, minute by minute, as the outline of the town itself had vanished, the depressing impression of that jeering frontier mob faded; and in its stead, looming bigger and bigger, advancing, enfolding like a storm cloud until it blotted out every other thought, came realisation of the thing she had done: came appreciation of its finality, its immensity.

" We think of our three dimensional space, "the sensible world," as immersed in higher space; "enfolded as in a garment," therefore.