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• The small piece of gold glittered brightly in the moonlight, setting off the red ruby it encircled.
• a dolmen, since all tombs containing clay effigies or encircled by terracotta haniwa would necessarily be subsequent to that date, and all tombs containing skeletons other than the occupants of the sarcophagi would be referable to an earlier era. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
• When lovers lie on a bed, and embrace each other so closely that the arms and thighs of the one are encircled by the arms and thighs of the other, and are, as it were, rubbing up against them, this is called an embrace like 'the mixture of sesamum seed with rice'. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
• Each seed is encircled by a long red, yellow or orange funicle. Chapter 41
• There are magnificent avenues of elm-trees, great gardens encircled by the moat, and a circumference of walls about a huge manorial pile which represents the profits of the maltote, the gains of farmers-general, legalized malversation, or the vast fortunes of great houses now brought low beneath the hammer of the Civil Code. A Woman of Thirty
• A golden torque encircled his neck, tawdry-jeweled rings his fingers, a spiral of herpetoid skin the left arm. The Day of Their Return
• The house is encircled by a high fence.
• Both ponds were divided from the lake by a low promontory of land that encircled them.
• His high-crowned grey hat lay on the floor, covered with dust, but encircled by a carcanet of large balas rubies; and he wore a blue velvet nightcap, in the front of which was placed the plume of a heron, which had been struck down by a favourite hawk in some critical moment of the flight, in remembrance of which the king wore this highly honoured feather. The Fortunes of Nigel
• The font itself was set Beneath a dome-shaped Baldachin and encircled by columns and an ambulatory (aisle), features first used by the byzantines.