re-folded

Updated: May 1, 2025

All that she could make out, was that some sort of narrow white bandage seemed to have been removed from the breast or stomach of the invalid that the Colonel took out a dark paste from the box with his knife, spread a portion of it on the opened bandage, then re-folded it and assisted in replacing it on the breast or stomach and re-arranging the disordered clothing.

Henry Morford - Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862

Then he carefully re-folded and re-sealed the letter, so as to leave no trace of the violence that has been done in opening it. Then he sat for a long time with his elbows on the table before him, and his head bowed upon his hands while tear after tear rolled slowly down his cheeks for the sad fate of that young, broken hearted mother who had perished in her early prime.

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth - The Lost Lady of Lone

The contents were evidently not of an agreeable character, for his brow darken and his lips were firmly compressed as he read the long and closely written epistle. At its conclusion he moved for a few seconds uneasily in his chair, then re-folded the letter and placed it carefully in his pocketbook.

E. W. (Edmund William) Forrest - Vellenaux: A Novel