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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Fold
 
  The soft palms fold like kissing shells.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Folds up like a crush hat or a concertina.
            —Irvin S. Cobb		  2
  Folded like a wave.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  3
  Shall fold their tents like the Arabs and as silently steal away.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  4
  The flowers fold their cups like praying hands.
            —Gerald Massey		  5
  Folded like thoughts in a dream.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  6
  Eyelids folded like a white-rose leaf.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  7
  Folded up as folds a primrose when the gates of day are shut.
            —Eugene Fitch Ware		  8
 
 
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