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With a glass you can see the cow-sheds about its base, and the contented sheep nimbling pebbles in the desert solitudes that surround it, and the tired pigs dozing in the holy calm of its protecting shadow. [5]
To surround her with spies chosen from the lay class was repugnant to his lofty nature. [10]
She allowed the whole throng of knights to surround her in the ante-room, and your future brother-in-law, Siebenburg, outdid them all. [10]
Who can say what cows feel, when they surround and stare intently on a dying or dead companion; apparently, however, as Houzeau remarks, they feel no pity. [1]
His the lute to whose sweet accents, Ilion owes undying fame, And the triumph and the praises Which surround her deathless name. [10]
If Kutuzov decided to remain at Krems, Napoleon's army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he would find himself in the position of Mack at Ulm. [2]
I preferred him to my dog, whom I had, with much patience, taught to go up a long hill alone and surround the cows, and drive them home from the remote pasture. [4]
They surround the throne of Auramazda and symbolize the highest virtues. [10]
You do not think I would shut up my Bible and Prayer-Book because there is one more thing I do not understand in a world where I understand so very little of all the wonders that surround me? [6]
I would surround them, and they would have to fight my men on equal terms, in the open. [5]
Nothing which attracts their attention and awakens their desires must surround them; but your father's gold led Hermon, ere the season of apprenticeship was over, into the most luxuriant clover fields. [10]
Sooner than allow that, I will myself find my way into the house of Seleukus, and among the spies who surround the tyrant. [10]
It is said that some of the country seats have grounds--domains--about them which rival in charm and magnitude those which surround the country mansion of an English lord; but I was not out in the country; I had my hands full in town. [5]
We would surround that prison and have the king out in no time. [5]
Garlands of flowers surround the heads of happy mortals, and here the house of every wealthy land-owner was inclosed by a hedge or garden. [10]
At midnight they surround Kaid's palace--Achmet and Higli--and kill the Prince Pasha. [11]
One of his suite beckoned to the soldiers carrying the standards to advance and surround the commander in chief with them. [2]
Already banishment, isolation, seemed to possess Pomfrette, to surround him with loneliness. [11]
Amid the fabulous radiance of the festal array, when all who surround her admire, worship, and strew flowers in her path, one might believe that the old sunny days had returned; but when we are alone, how rarely I see her smile! [10]
Her persevering and patient love seemed completely to surround the countess every moment, not explaining or consoling, but recalling her to life. [2]
The two larger ones were to surround the town, while the picked force under Simon Kenton himself was to storm the fort. [9]
The strange stillness of the hour and the stranger atmosphere which seemed to surround this transaction filled him with a nameless dread. [9]
Even the outlines of the hills that surround us are changed by the creeping of the villages with their spires and school-houses up their sides. [6]
Then the necessity of appealing to her in prayer seized upon him, and with fervent warmth he besought her to surround with her gracious protection the young life which owed its existence to him. [10]
I say this not invidiously, but in justice to the beauties which surround our own metropolis. [6]
Money alone could not have lured her; but rather what it represented--power, width of action, freedom to help when the heart prompted, machinery for carrying out large plans, ability to surround with advantage those whom we love. [11]
If he does not change in this respect he will wander further and further from the law of the Lord, and imperil his soul, for dangers surround him on all sides like roaring lions. [10]
The senate had not been idle and had done all in their power to surround it with magnificence and to enable as many as possible to enjoy the pageant, which had been planned with a lavish hand and liberal munificence. [10]
Let the King's men surround Enderby House and the soldiers and my Lord Rippingdale levy upon the estates of Enderby. [11]
The nauarch told me that Agrippa was trying to surround us. [10]
The clever man knows Rome, Octavianus, and those who surround him, so he was chosen as an envoy. [10]
They surround a hut and wail in the same heart-broken way when its occupant returns from a journey. [5]
He would surround himself with an atmosphere of his own. [11]
He reserves for himself the right to do as he pleases, but insists that those who surround him shall adopt the subserviency which he thinks proper for the rest of the world. [9]
What I wanted him to do was to surround the Eastern army and wait until I came up. [5]
In his mind he saw a hundred men rise up from ambush, surround him, and cut him down. [11]
But since the great display of the ball, and the legitimate inferences drawn from it by the press and the fashionable world, Mrs. Mavick had endeavored to surround her intended son-in-law with the toils of domestic peace. [4]
Then the lights go out, the voices stop, and only the dark tumultuous streets surround us, and the grime of life is ours again. [11]
His consciousness is doubled by the books which encircle him, as the trees that surround a lake repeat themselves in its unruffled waters. [3]
A pretty creature, dangerously pretty to be in a station not guarded by all the protective arrangements which surround the maidens of a higher social order. [6]
Prince Harrik has conspired against his brother the Prince Pasha, has treacherously seduced officers of the army, has planned to seize Cairo, to surround the Palace and take the life of the Prince of Egypt. [11]
Here Abraham, having come of age and being now his own master, rendered the last service of his minority by ploughing the fifteen-acre lot and splitting from the tall walnut trees of the primeval forest enough rails to surround the little clearing with a fence. [7]
If a large band, they would surround and overpower us. [9]
It comes up, as a Southern seed, dropped by accident in one of our gardens, finds itself trying to grow and blow into flower among the homely roots and the hardy shrubs that surround it. [6]
And proud I am not of you, nor you of me; but we've tasted the bitter of avil days together, and divils surround me, if I don't go down with you or come up with you, whichever it be! [11]
When they think a sick friend is going to die, a couple of dozen neighbors surround his hut and keep up a deafening wailing night and day till he either dies or gets well. [5]
It was not a half-hour since he had given the word to strike at midnight, to surround the Palace, and to seize the Prince Pasha. [11]

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