Encompassed

Examples

• How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow; yet a second step is taken towards my enterprise. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Your suspense is nearly ended, my darling; he shall be restored to you within a few hours; I have encompassed him with every protection. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I encompassed it almost round, before I could find a convenient place to land in; which was a small creek, about three times the wideness of my canoe. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Then came the tale of hair-breadth escapes, combats with dogs, ambush and flight, as gipsey-like we encompassed our pot. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Darkness encompassed them. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• What to do we knew not --the breakers here, there, everywhere, encompassed us--they roared, and dashed, and flung their hated spray in our faces. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Her face, encompassed by the blackness of the receding heath, showed whitely, and with-out half-lights, like a cameo. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• From this time, an inviolable sphere of peace encompassed the lowly heart of the oppressed one,--an ever-present Saviour hallowed it as a temple. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Soft shades encompassed us, and rocks tinged with beauteous hues. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If I threatened her, then and afterwards, with the terrors that encompassed her, did I hold them in my right hand? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Fear and horror encompassed me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I knew that I ought to hasten my descent towards the valley, as I should soon be encompassed in darkness; but my heart was heavy, and my steps slow. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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