Surrounding

Examples

• 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 given out by the condensing steam passes into the surrounding air and warms the room. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In winter the heat from the freezing water keeps the temperature of the surrounding higher than it would naturally be, and consequently the cold weather is less severe. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And then a living mass of destruction sprang from the surrounding darkness full upon the creature that held me pinioned to the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• At No. 8 is illustrated the preservation of liquid air by surrounding it with a vacuum in a Dewar bulb. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They are more like the Europeans in their facial type than the surrounding yellow Japanese. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This is inclosed by the tube, which is also in one piece, surrounding the liner throughout its length. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For instance, if a dipper full of the liquid air is drawn, in an instant the outside of the dipper is covered with a coating of frost deposited upon it from the surrounding atmosphere. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Where the shadow fell the paper remained white, while the surrounding exposed parts darkened under the sun’s rays. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Of his immediate surroundings, his telescope is most intimately his environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Gerty felt the poverty, the insignificance of her surroundings: she beheld her life as it must appear to Lily. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Men have oftener suffered from, the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the oppression of surroundings oversadly tinged. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• However, I have done my best to make my surroundings agree with my nature, and the result is—Melnos. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She did not mean to pamper herself any longer, to go without food because her surroundings made it unpalatable. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• My friend's temper had not improved since he had been deprived of the congenial surroundings of Baker Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It lies near the pliable elasticity by which some persons take on the color of their surroundings while retaining their own bent. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For a moment I could neither place my surroundings nor locate the sounds which had aroused me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• All the surroundings were gay and enlivening. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Lily knew people who lived like pigs, and their appearance and surroundings justified her mother's repugnance to that form of existence. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• As was always the case with her, this moral repulsion found a physical outlet in a quickened distaste for her surroundings. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But in fact such activity is explosive, and due to maladjustment with surroundings. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• What could I become with these surroundings? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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