Surroundings
[sə'raʊndɪŋz]
Examples
- 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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