And out in the tangled shrubberies that surrounded the house, lurkedfor all I could tellthose infernal Swine-creatures waiting their chance.

I came to myself on the edge of the dark valley which surrounded the town.

Every man or officer I spoke to declared that he was seized with emotion when, looking from the shell-torn summit of Nebi Samwil, he saw the spires on the Mount of Olives; or when reconnoitring from Kustul he got a peep of the red roofs of the newer houses which surround the old City.

After surrounding the two men they suddenly attacked them.

They were driving home through the forest that surrounded Osterno as the sea surrounds an island.

A rank bog surrounded the place on three sides, and thus but few troops were needed to guard the great mass of rebel prisoners lodged in wooden barracks and long lines of tents.

At length, as his mind developed and his curiosity increased to see and know things and people beyond the narrow circle to which he was confined, he obtained permission to see the gardens which surrounded the palace.

We have learned now that we should as much as we can surround our children with life and growth.

The students came in quiet and anxious, and surrounded her bed.

As I have said, we were given a post which had in it no inconsiderable honor, since it was at that point where the most fighting might be expected, and from where we stood it was possible to have a fairly good view of the plain immediately surrounding the fort.

"It was in the dead of nightall but the revellers sleptwhen the soldiers from the fort surrounded the village.

It required but a moment to descend it, and to reach the covered gallery which surrounded the court.

"We are in the park which surrounds the castle.

She was not beautiful, strictly speaking, but she was possessed of that 'something than beauty dearer,'that nameless and indescribable charm that is sometimes seen to surround a person whose form and features would not satisfy the critical eye of an artist.

'At this period, had a rush been made at the officers' quarters by one half (they were more than 200 in number), and the other half surrounded the building, not one could have escaped.

Let my reader now forget all but the first stanza, and take it along with the following, the last two: We think that Paradise and Calvary, Christ's cross and Adam's tree, stood in one place: Look, Lord, and find both Adams met in me; As the first Adam's sweat surrounds my face, May the last Adam's blood my soul embrace.

As the gases that surrounded the earth became consolidated into vegetation, as this stupendous growth decomposed the noxious atmosphere, drawing from it its grosser particles and working them up into solid matter, extracting from it what was fatal to animal life, this earth entered upon another era of its progress.

This adoration of royalty was not only universal, but it was deeply seated in the minds of men, and marked strongly all the courtiers and generals and bishops and poets who surrounded the throne of Louis,Bossuet and Fénelon, as well as Colbert and Louvois; Racine and Molière, as well as Condé and Turenne.

" "And in the next place," continued Godfrey, "we hope that, with your assistance, our police may be able to solve the mystery surrounding the death of the three men recently killed here, and to arrest the murderer.

The cloisters which surround the garden, in the centre of which is a well, and beneath which is the distillery, are very memorable, not only for their beauty but for the sixty and more medallions of saints and evangelists all round it by Giovanni della Robbia.

" Such magnanimity, however, did not disarm the hostility of those who surrounded the King.

The rest of the council, Nesbit, Teppich, Sturgeon, Kempner, and the great snow-headed padre, surrounded the table with heat-worn, thoughtful faces.

Crowds surround the camp.

It seemed as though the objects that surrounded himthe very walls and furniturewere no longer the same!

The neighboring peasants surrounded the apparently lifeless body, and listened with awe to the frenzied imprecations of Frau Proch upon the murderer of her son.