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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
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  • 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.
  • Her brown hair was sharply cut off below her chin and swung freely around matching brown eyes encircled by tanned skin.
  • Locomotives once used by showmen to haul and power fairground rides; road rollers like Blackberry Jack, which was submerged in brambles before its acquisition for restoration; and more manoeuvrable tractors, including Bo Peep and Hot Favourite, encircled by a procession of their miniature counterparts. Country diary: Stithians, Cornwall
  • The store delivers newspapers and magazines to homes and farms in a 20-mile radius and when Elvington was encircled by floodwater in 2000 carried on making its deliveries by boat.
  • The complex includes eight buildings encircled by a fortified wall. Smithsonian Mag
  • The city is encircled by a hostile army.
  • The galaxy's hallmark is a brilliant white, bulbous core encircled by the thick dust lanes comprising the spiral structure of the galaxy.
  • Thin slices of courgette and aubergine sat on top of tomato-infused couscous, which itself was encircled with a drizzle of pesto.
  • A single strand of wire encircled the top of both the exclosures and the open units to allow for similar seed input from bird defecation into all the units.
  • The ragtag Republican forces, resisting him in their forlorn fight against fascism, had encircled the town.
  • I smiled to myself as a pair of strong arms encircled my waist, steadying me and holding on tightly.
  • Within the giant hedge that encircled the island, butterflies flittered about, and the hum of bees filled the air. End of Time
  • Instead, tectonics has encircled the north pole with most of the great continents.
  • Without any prior notification and with compensations deals outstanding for families remaining there, around 200 police "encircled" the community in the middle of the night and were followed later in the morning by more than 300 workers with bulldozers, said Chan Saveth of the rights group Adhoc. KI Media
  • A band of gray hair encircled his bald dome.
  • The city would be encircled by its defensive walls pierced by town gates.
  • At the underside of the sixth floor, the atrium narrows to a small opening encircled by polished granite voussoirs.
  • Strings of haliotis and pachydesma shell beads encircled their necks, and around their waists were belts heavily loaded with the same material. An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians
  • Sitting under a rose and clematis arbour in one area, you see through a lunette in a pyracantha hedge to a pond, encircled by lavender, heleniums, hemerocallis, gaillardias and calamintha.
  • The little hill station of Kohima, north of Imphal and on the road to the important railhead of Dimapur, was encircled, but held out in an epic siege.
  • Set amidst the peaceful sylvan surroundings of Jaipur's Ramgarh, encircled by a tranquil valley and cool lake, you will find a completely new experiment with the traditional madrasa education system.
  • When Serbian tanks and fighters encircled the city, she was trapped outside. Times, Sunday Times
  • His capital is encircled by rebels. Times, Sunday Times
  • Duck breast is pan-roasted golden as schnitzel and encircled by a cherry jus and caramelized salsify.
  • Al Deir is encircled by the rounded bluffs and ridges of a range which plunges 1500 metres to Wadi Araba, a valley linking the Dead Sea to the Red Sea.
  • The city is nearly encircled by rebel troops.
  • By faith the walls of Jericho fell , having been encircled for a period of seven days.
  • In the heart of the department, Puy de Dome is this lovely place, encircled by beautiful hills, rippling brooklets with waterfalls and various mountain lakes.
  • In Samhain, banks of grass-covered earth in the shape of a sleeping woman wrap around a pool encircled in a ring of birch trees.
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  • The great man of letters William Dean Howells wrote in "Stories of Ohio" 1897 that if Chapman was right in his Swedenborgian belief that we are encircled by spirits that reflect our own behavior, then "this harmless, loving, uncouth, half-crazy man walked daily with the angels of God. A Pro-Growth Strategy
  • Jack's arms encircled her waist.
  • One of Matt's arms encircled my waist and the other held my hand.
  • Multi-layered exodermis encircled the aerenchymatous cortex with air cavities.
  • She was seated upon the edge of it, and I was beside her, with one knee on the floor, clasping both her hands in one of mine, while the other still encircled her body, holding her tightly against me in that rhapsody of love which overawes all sense of understanding. Princess Zara
  • The keep in stone encircled from the full water ditch that we see today was built at this time.
  • And I never found the envelope with my name encircled by a heart, revolving on that rack. Chocolate for a Lover’s Heart
  • The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth and the smoke encircled his head like a wreath.
  • The women broke off mulga branches and used them as brooms to sweep the sandy ground encircled by the trees with meticulous care before spreading out picnic blankets and building a fire. Wildwood
  • The pond is encircled by trees.
  • A deep deposit of grey ashes and sand encircled this _cuvette_. Across Unknown South America
  • One the most delightful doric temple of Greece, the Temple of Aphaia is located a top the pine-clad Mesagro hill on the northeast end of the island and it is encircled by excellent views of the saronic gulf and the surrounding area. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • A crowd of 'jibbing' heifers encircled her on all sides, while a fat porker, Penelope's Irish Experiences
  • Just a few weeks later, August Benz & Cie did the same with their logo, the Benz name encircled by a wreath. Autoblog
  • At First Avenue the crosswalk is blocked by a Con Ed van and an open manhole cover encircled by yellow rubber cones.
  • MPX Modal Explorer" measures Encircled Flux and Mode Power Distribution Controlled modal filling in multimode optical fibers, expressed as Encircled Flux or Mode Power Distribution, is vital for modern datacomms systems. Optics.org all content
  • Underneath on the unvarnished surface, she scratched her initials, and William's, and encircled them with a heart. MY FAVORITE BRIDE
  • My head feels encircled by a band of iron, this despite that before leaving the Abbey, I replaced the heavy crown of my father with the far daintier diadem of gold studded with sapphires, rubies, and pearls that was made for my mother to wear at her own coronation. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
  • Before them lay the waters of a canal, and beyond it, rising from its bank, the great bastioned wall of sun-dried brick which encircled the inner city. Conan the Freebooter
  • Wondering why the full bus then hadn't moved, we realised that we were being encircled by the Lancashire local constabulary, ‘police evidence gatherers’ decked out in riot gear, and mounted police.
  • A spider's web was spun on his neck and on his right arm was a small blue swastika and an encircled A for anarchy.
  • The island is encircled by a coral reef.
  • Controlled modal filling in multimode optical fibers, expressed as Encircled Flux or Mode Power Distribution, is vital for modern datacomms systems. Optics.org all content
  • The rampart wall was found to be encircled by at least two deep ditches, and possibly three, with counterscarps between tern.
  • But Aleppo is not an encircled city deep in Syria. Times, Sunday Times
  • Al Deir is encircled by the rounded bluffs and ridges of a range which plunges 1500 metres to Wadi Araba, a valley linking the Dead Sea to the Red Sea.
  • This is a good place to catch a profuse carpet of bluebells in spring, and there are giant redwoods with girths large enough to be encircled by ten or more people standing hand to hand.
  • I was reminded of the part in A Bridge Too Far when the only supply drop the encircled Allied troops actually manage to retrieve contains nothing but burgundy berets.
  • A garter of white cowrie shells encircled one leg just below the knee. CHAPTER IX
  • We were encircled in this so-called "hong" by loveliness unlike any that we could have ever expected to see. The Macphersons: Week 40: Crusin'
  • She had remarked that Francois 'forehead was stained or dyed of a bister color, his eyes were bloodshot and encircled with blue lines, his lips marked with furrows, like the impression which burning sulphur leaves on living flesh. The Forty-Five Guardsmen
  • But the town of St. Lo is ever gloriously lighted, for us, with a nimbus of young heads, such as encircled the earlier madonnas. In and out of Three Normady Inns
  • His capital is encircled by rebels. Times, Sunday Times
  • A golden band encircled it, decked with bells like all the rest of his outfit, and words were inscribed upon it.
  • Her painting depicts a Buddhist stupa encircled in chains, suggesting peace in trouble.
  • Each portrait is encircled with a foliate wreath and surrounded by classical rinceaux against a Byzantine style gold background.
  • Belfast sits at the mouth of the river Lagan and is encircled by green rolling hills.
  • Having reached the peak, we got a stunningly beautiful view of the verdant valley below encircled by green hills.
  • When Serbian tanks and fighters encircled the city, she was trapped outside. Times, Sunday Times
  • To its east and southeast, it is "encircled" by American allies such as Japan, On Line Opinion - Latest Articles
  • It is now high noon for our lunarian standing beside the cross, while the earth over his head appears, if he sees it at all, only as a black disk close to the sun, or -- as would sometimes be the case -- covering the sun, and encircled with a beautiful ring of light produced by the refraction of its atmosphere. Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries
  • Around the barn a flagged terrace is encircled by cottage garden plants, such as delphiniums, rambling roses, geraniums, dianthus and lupins.
  • The stage is fully lit throughout the first four movements but darkened for the fifth and final movement in which the dancers perform a love duet encircled by strong beams of light.
  • On either side of the fountain, a curved staircase connected the ground floor to an upper walkway that encircled the entire room.
  • They also located individual subway and railroad stations and identified the entrance and exit ramps on the Moscow Ring Road, the automobile beltway that encircled the city.
  • Their breath encircled the chateau like a wreath, wrapping its way around the substantial estate as if wanting to squeeze out every last drop of life, which existed inside.
  • The gate-crashers were quickly welcomed by the delighted Iranian guests, who encircled them, clapping and dancing to the festive bandari music pouring out of the sound system. As diversity grows, Md. catering hall becomes a 'United Nations for weddings'
  • Here the Toronto Consort ensemble and guests position themselves and their instruments around a church and in the balconies for an encircled performance of carols, German love songs and Michael Praetorius's four-choired The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • The complex includes eight buildings encircled by a fortified wall. Smithsonian Mag
  • A band of gray hair encircled his bald dome.
  • A wreath of ivy encircled his head, and his hair fell in ripples to his shoulders.
  • This, constructed of trunks of trees, branches and osiers, was placed about twenty paces from the water, completely concealed by the bushes that encircled it; the inside was fitted up in rustic taste with seats of wood, the whole carpeted with turf, and the entrance planted with every kind of odoriferous flower. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches
  • 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
  • On her way home, some teenagers in parked cars that reeked of hash used cuss words, followed her, tried to grab her, encircled her with their vehicles, and the poor woman and her niece felt trapped. Global Voices in English » Egypt: April 18 Declared Anti-Harassment Day
  • If you become encircled and trapped by the fire, look for shelter in a body of water, amongst rocks, or a natural depression in the ground, void of burnable materials, in which to lie in.
  • They also located individual subway and railroad stations and identified the entrance and exit ramps on the Moscow Ring Road, the automobile beltway that encircled the city.
  • 1522 -- _Az., a lion rampt. queue fourchée erm., crowned or_ -- is encircled by _peach-branches fructed and in foliage, each peach being charged with the letter É_, No. 297; the crest-wreath also is formed of a similar peach-branch. The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • The pistil was unaffected in some cases, while in some others it was entirely wanting, the gynophore being surmounted by a cup-like involucre, divided into three acutely pointed lobes, each with a midrib; these encircled a series of stalked involucels, as before, and among which were scattered Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • He found the two encircled in one another's arms fast asleep.
  • The city is encircled by a hostile army.
  • The army was mobilized and encircled the airport.
  • But a bit of near-nudity notwithstanding, their arrival might have gone unnoticed had it not been for the fact that there were 4 000 of them dancing in the wood-encircled meadow halfway up the mountainside. Dancing on Olympus | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
  • A number of lawn chairs and a canopied swing were encircled around a large, self-dug fire pit, in which a small orange fire was crackling merrily in the afternoon sun.
  • Backlighting the hand, a bright yellow disk rests against a washy sienna background encircled by a repeating phrase in Gujarati.
  • The great man of letters William Dean Howells wrote in "Stories of Ohio" 1897 that if Chapman was right in his Swedenborgian belief that we are encircled by spirits that reflect our own behavior, then "this harmless, loving, uncouth, half-crazy man walked daily with the angels of God. A Pro-Growth Strategy
  • In the western part of the parish is a valley encircled with hills, celebrated for goats’ milk, which is in much request by valetudinarians, who resort hither during the summer months.
  • That rag-tag, fly-encircled debaucher possessed a decidedly bad humor entirely lacking in this merry Falstaff. Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage
  • When Clinton mentioned Leipzig, Reagan the "encircled" City Hall where Kennedy spoke, and Kennedy himself the "defended island of freedom," their comments roused because they were grounded in political geography. Mayhill Fowler: Barack's Berlin Gamble
  • Spreading pecans encircled the house back in the Little Town, trees which received yearly pruning, faithful webworm eradications, and regular fertilizing.
  • When Serbian tanks and fighters encircled the city, she was trapped outside. Times, Sunday Times
  • Around the barn a flagged terrace is encircled by cottage garden plants, such as delphiniums, rambling roses, geraniums, dianthus and lupins.
  • The site is landscaped and encircled with stone paths and plants in keeping with the natural habitat.
  • A balustrade emphasized by gargoyles encircled each of the three steps.
  • The island was encircled by a dusty road.
  • But Aleppo is not an encircled city deep in Syria. Times, Sunday Times
  • Barely mentioned except in passing is the Spanish Civil War, for example, where for three whole years between 1936 and 1939 Germany and Italy lent troops and weapons in a Fascist invasion of a sovereign European nation that had never threatened or "encircled" them in any way. A War Worth Fighting
  • Pale walls of sand-colored stone encircled the town.
  • Each portrait is encircled with a foliate wreath and surrounded by classical rinceaux against a Byzantine style gold background.
  • The photo showed the captive sitting down, encircled by several armed men.
  • An army officer was next to him, his eye encircled with a faint black mark.
  • The Elu of Fifteen ought therefore to take the lead of his fellow-citizen, not in frivolous amusements, not in the degrading pursuits of the ambitious vulgar; but in the truly noble task of enlightening the mass of his countrymen, and of leaving his own name encircled, not with barbaric splendor, or attached to courtly gewgaws, but illustrated by the honors most worthy of our rational nature; coupled with the diffusion of knowledge, and gratefully pronounced by a few, at least, whom his wise beneficence has rescued from ignorance and vice. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  • They have planted a formal, yew-encircled rose garden, with blue-painted pergolas and arbours, and have recently planted a gravel garden beside the sea road, with cistus, eryngiums and grasses.
  • Inside the curtained pergola was a round table, encircled by a kind of cushioned pew. The High Crusade
  • The prominently depicted hen and rooster form the brightest spot in the foreground, as they are encircled by an aureole of light.
  • The gun was dug in and encircled by a wall of sandbags. A Channel of Peace
  • Her glistening black hair was encircled by a crown of animal figures carved from lapis lazuli intertwined and connected by vines and leaves of knotted beaten copper.
  • The inmates are held in a compound encircled by razor wire.
  • I didn't get far though, before his arms encircled my waist and pulled me to his wet body.
  • A fiery glow encircled him and it was obvious to the three seraphs there why Michael was the Warrior of God; he was frightening.
  • Ivy twisted through sprigs of flowers, adding green here and there, and rose trellises climbed the stone walls that encircled the gardens.
  • Her boots and gloves were of softest kidskin, and a belt encircled her waist from which hung a deadly, but less heavy version of her master's broadsword.
  • Linden gripped tighter at the knife, and Kamaria's hand encircled the handle of her skillet.
  • Bishop vested in chimere and rochet, enveloped in a rich mantle, with the cross of St. George, encircled by the Garter and motto of the Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See
  • The tears flowed freely now, coursing down my cheeks and soaking into her tank top as she cradled my head with one arm and encircled my waist with the other.
  • Having reached the peak, we got a stunningly beautiful view of the verdant valley below encircled by green hills.
  • In addition, the mounts are encircled by bands supporting balustered posts, each with a suspension ring.
  • They are encircled by a pigmented ring called the areola, and surrounded by nerve endings and blood vessels.
  • Like modern frogs, she says, the bones show an inner zone of yellow, fatty marrow, encircled by an outer zone of red marrow.
  • Ruler Nasir al-Din Haidar appears in Kettle's portrait wearing a European-style crown, while a 1786-88 portrait of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier, a French officer and tireless art collector, shows a mustachioed European in caftan and turban sitting on cushions watching a nautch girl caught middance, one arm raised, an ankle encircled in bells. Where East Met West To Wondrous Effect
  • The gun was dug in and encircled by a wall of sandbags. A Channel of Peace
  • I stood fearfully against a board as in rapid succession the knives flashed through the air and encircled my body.
  • The diamond is set in a pendent in which it is encircled by sixteen white diamonds, indeed an excellent engagement ring for your loved one. Hope Iv | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • Next to our beloved Washington, there is no name entwined with deeper interest in the hearts of Jerseymen, than LAFAYETTE -- None, which they will transmit to their posterity, encircled with a wreath of nobler praise, or embalmed with the incense of purer love, than that of the interesting stranger who embarked his life and fortune open the tempestuous ocean of our revolution -- and who fought at Brandywine, at Monmouth and at Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United State
  • I didn't mean for to wake you; but I wish -- I _wish_ I hadn't boned them coppers off Jim; it makes me feel so bad when I think as the King saw me;" and Wikkey buried his face in the kind arm which encircled him, in uncontrollable grief. Wikkey A Scrap
  • Directly above them in the coved gallery ceiling, a continuous plaster molding in the form of a decorative beribboned garland encircled the entire rotunda.
  • The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small, fat-encircled eyes.
  • It was shaped like a little house surmounted by a cross and encircled, under the pediment, by the dial-like figure of the tetragram. Là-bas
  • Then he encircled Numantia with a huge wall, patrolled by Roman troops stationed in seven different forts. The Spartacus War
  • If one got so wild with play as to forget all fear, one could swing, until chased away by the guard, on the heavy chain festoons that encircled the monument at one side of the square. The Promised Land
  • The garland wrapped pole is a clear and graphic representation of a phallus encircled by a yoni. Donna Henes: May Day: A Bawdy Festival of Fertility
  • He held her so that she could not move, his strong arms encircled about her slender form.
  • But Aleppo is not an encircled city deep in Syria. Times, Sunday Times
  • While gold coins are set on one side of this necklace, the reverse comprises units of rubies and emeralds encircled with pearls.
  • Both ponds were divided from the lake by a low promontory of land that encircled them.
  • The small group gathered on Thursday for a march toward what it called a "symbolic site of finance and capitalism," with plans for an unidentified "action," but dozens of police moved in and encircled the protesters. The Seattle Times
  • Wide avenues and ring roads encircled the capital city, frequented only by taxis and black official limousines with not a private car in sight.
  • a pond encircled by trees.
  • Every land illuminated by thy diadem is encircled by thy might; and in all the zone of the heavens there is not a rebel to rise up against thee. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
  • She jumped into his embrace, wrapping her arms tightly around his neck as his own encircled her tiny frame.
  • A wigwam of driftwood spars lashed to the central totem pole was encircled by a pattern of grey sticks laid out like basketwork and punctuated by such objects as the flip-flop sandals and trainers that seem perpetually to ride the waves, Coke cans, garish cork or plastic lobster-pot buoys and the armoured white carapaces of spider crabs that abound on this beach. Wildwood
  • Strong fingers encircled her tiny wrists.
  • The army was mobilized and encircled the airport.
  • They have planted a formal, yew encircled rose garden, with blue-painted pergolas and arbours, and have recently planted a gravel garden beside the sea road, with grasses, Verbena bonariensis, cistus, eryngiums and grasses.
  • At First Avenue the crosswalk is blocked by a Con Ed van and an open manhole cover encircled by yellow rubber cones.
  • Around the barn a flagged terrace is encircled by cottage garden plants, such as delphiniums, rambling roses, geraniums, dianthus and lupins.
  • -- Across the heath, encircled with fences of uncouth stones, stands a stern record of feudal yore; at the next turn peeps the rectory, encircled with old firs, trained fruit trees, and affectionate ivy; beneath yon darkened thickets rolls the lazy Ure, expanding into laky broadness; and, beyond yon western woods, which embower the peaceful hamlet, are seen the The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828
  • Such spots were encircled with a low wall and called _puteal_ from their resemblance to a well, or _bidental_ from the sacrifice there of a lamb as a _piaculum_; the bolt was supposed to be thus buried, and the place became _religiosum_. [ The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
  • Unwrapping some white mosquito-netting, she presented to view a large, bulbous object encircled with protuberances, excrescenced with golden knobbiness -- this object, strangely sticky, smelled something like bananas; it was the Everything, completed and unveiled. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • The complex includes eight buildings encircled by a fortified wall. Smithsonian Mag
  • She walked over, encircled her arms about his waist, and propped her chin on his shoulder.
  • The wall of fire quickly spread and encircled the androids while giving cover to the retreating humans.
  • We arrived in Ranikhet, located 1,830 m above sea level, encircled by tall pine trees and soaring deodars, commanding views of the Himalayas glistening white in the distance.
  • The artist here sits in the foreground of the picture, his troubled head, larger than life and encircled in red, rises amid shrouded tables, which have the aura of coffins.
  • Volcanic ash rose into the air and encircled the earth, choking out all the air and blotting out all the light.
  • The gun was dug in and encircled by a wall of sandbags. A Channel of Peace
  • A band of gray hair encircled his bald dome.
  • Tritons and sea-goddesses encircled the prow and throned above the stern, and the interior of the deck-house was adorned with delicate rilievi and painted by Tiepolo with scenes from the myth of Amphitrite. The Valley of Decision
  • In the moist warmth of the evening, she leant against the wall which encircled the Palazzo.
  • On the rare occasions when he did appear, he was encircled by aides-de-camp, soldiers, and various hangers-on.
  • In defense, Dean's forces found -- and posted on the Web -- Clinton quotes that appeared to support their man's original point: that diplomacy is crucial if the world's only superpower is to avoid being "encircled" by resentful countries. A Long Shadow
  • Sitting under a rose and clematis arbour in one area, you see through a lunette in a pyracantha hedge to a pond, encircled by lavender, heleniums, hemerocallis, gaillardias and calamintha.
  • She would have looked like the perfect Lady had it not been for the heavy black leather scabbard and sword belt that encircled a slender waist.
  • This type of eruption, called a phreatic eruption, is characterized by a volcanic crater that goes beneath the level of the surrounding landscape and is encircled by a wide, low ring of volcanic debris.
  • The house is encircled by a high fence.
  • A durable mineral window shields the black dial, which is encircled by a bold, white tachymeter.
  • His capital is encircled by rebels. Times, Sunday Times
  • (See ALTAR-CURTAIN) The altar was often encircled by railings of wood, or metal, called cancelli, or by low walls of marble slabs called tranennae. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • This ring of mine would lose half its beauty were not the signet encircled and enchased with these lesser brilliants, which grace it and set it off. The Talisman
  • A stronger Russia now regrets such conciliatory policies because they have left the country feeling encircled," writes Russia analyst Ivan Eland.

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