Surround

Examples

• This, O this may be the last time that you will surround me thus! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The green horde broke to surround the temple. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And now we are near the spot; let us draw in and surround the cover and watch with all our eyes, lest justice should slip away and escape. Plato. The Republic.
• The scenes which now surround us, vast and sublime as they are, are not such as can best contribute to this work. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The corruption of our hearts, the evil of our ways, the curse that is upon us, the terrors that surround us--these were the themes of my childhood. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Another method of giving illuminating power to water gas was to surround the flame with platinum gauze, which was rendered incandescent by the heat, and became highly luminous. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The simplest and most effective means for doing this in the laboratory is to surround it with a vacuum. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• If they have surrounded the hollow it is that, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The spire of Evian shone under the woods that surrounded it, and the range of mountain above mountain by which it was overhung. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• We would then have Lee so surrounded that his supplies would be cut off entirely, making it impossible for him to support his army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The next step is to reproduce, as nearly as we can, the domestic circumstances which surrounded you last year. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We found the ship in the river, surrounded by a crowd of boats; a favourable wind blowing; the signal for sailing at her mast-head. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He surrounded himself with an atmosphere of respectability, and walked secure in it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The entire community surrounded us, leaving a clear space about one hundred feet in diameter for our battle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• It was very pretty to look at, but seemed to have the effect of rendering surrounding objects rather darker than before. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit, nuts, small birds, and eggs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• When the trade had extended into all the surrounding counties, however, the new business needed another prime essential of industry--transportation facilities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Suddenly he was sobered: a vacant space appeared near Miss de Bassompierre; the circle surrounding her seemed about to dissolve. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This impression of my senses immediately conveys my thoughts to the person, along with all the surrounding objects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Play tends to reproduce and affirm the crudities, as well as the excellencies, of surrounding adult life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Of all the sources of evil surrounding the former, since her coming to Highbury, she was persuaded that she must herself have been the worst. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The heat of the food cannot escape through the non-conducting material which surrounds it, and hence remains in the food and slowly cooks it. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness which surrounds me? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• What we see and call the sky is the reflection of the sun’s rays on the belt of air that surrounds the earth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I am going to try, more than ever, to adapt myself as you wish to what surrounds me--for indeed I have tried all along, though I have failed, I know. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• All that surrounds him hastens to decay; all declines and degenerates under his sceptre. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The fruit-wall frequently surrounds the kitchen garden, which thus enjoys the benefit of an inclosure which its own produce could seldom pay for. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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