Do we say around or round

around 27056 occurrences

This conduit wound around a good deal; it would take a hundred winding feet to cover thirty straightaway.

Jim felt along the edges of the stone clear around.

III At the office next morning Sloan found the essay in his pocket and looked around the city-room for D.K.T.

A confusion of voices, raillery, laughter, eddied around the arcaded walls, and thin music bound it together with a monotonous count of notes.

A hundred candles, carried in horizontal banks on laths by little boys, came around him on three sides, like footlights.

And around the drums beyond the candles he heard them singing: On the day of the going away of my Love, When the litters, carrying the women of the tribe, Traversed the valley of Dad, like a sea, mirage, They were like ships, great ships, the work of the children of Adoul, Or like the boats of Yamen's sons.... "Boom-boom!"

" One roof, unlike the rest, displayed no such flaga somewhat notorious "garden" and dance hall just around the corner.

And his junk-cart, with its bells, stood, silent and unmanned, upon the vacant lot just around the corner.

" This seemed to please the man from around the corner.

And again she asked herself why he could not have been clean like the man from around the corner.

And she pleased to become a denizen of a world which, though just around the corner, was unrelated to the sphere in which she had moved.

She hurriedly shoved her cart around a corner into a less-congested thoroughfare and there a mammoth gilded clock at the edge of the sidewalk confronted her.

But...." He glanced around the dingy warehouse.

She struggled to her feet and glared around her.

He waited only long enough to get the lie of the land around the rifle pit, then crept quietly back to his companions.

In a much shorter time than he had expected, his two companions appeared in sight around the curve of the ledge.

Stooping swiftly, Roy swung up the broken barrel of the quick-firer, and with a shout sprang at the Turks, whirling the weighty length of steel around his head.

Musketry still crackled in the distance, but all around was very still.

He watched the men pass on until they were out of sight around a curve in the track.

We took our way around the house, the ladies and I in front, Julius next and Tom bringing up the rear with the wheelbarrow.

And all around him the wild beasts sway, Cured of their mortal ills Flying squirrels from Sikkim way, Silver foxes that used to play Up on the Kashmir hills.

Their vessels keep running around like hens in a shower, hardly knowing what to do.

Seventy men and four cannon completed the defensive line which Montcalm had drawn around the top of the rock.

The boy thought it strange that such a man should be put in charge of any part of the defensive cordon around Quebec.

She did not form any resolution, and neither did she hesitate; but, drawing tight around her the plaidlike length of shawl which had served her nearly a lifetime, she stood up ready to take her turn.

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That laugh seemed to echo all round the room.

"But in Heaven's name, what does it all mean?" exclaimed Lambert, gazing at the two cards, hearing the comments round him, yet utterly unable to understand.

A curious sound went round the rooma gasp, hardly a cryand all those present held their breath, silent, appalled at the terrible tragedy expressed by these two young men standing face to face on the brink of a deathly and almost blasphemous conflict.

others crowded round Segrave and Lambert, trying to pacify them, to drag the strong youth away from his weaker opponentalmost his victim now.

He beckoned to her across the room with a slight gesture of the hand, and she obeyed the silent call as quickly as she dared, working her way round to him, without arousing the attention of the crowd.

Rejoicings were not only confined to the higher class; the poor, for many miles round, hailed the expected marriage of Miss Hamilton as an occasion of peculiar and individual felicity.

These are strong, and worn round the neck to assist detention, and are probably as good as other celebrated anodyne beads which have been so long recommended for the same purpose.

It was recommended to wear the root by a ribband tied round the neck for the cure of the scrophula, and for which purpose, even now, much of the root is sold in London.

We have many varieties cultivated here in hot-beds; namely, yellow and red, of various shapes, as long, round, and heart-shaped.

We have two kinds of this in cultivation; but although these are both much eaten in Germany, they are not esteemed with us: in fact, we have so many varieties of the cabbage kind all the year round for culinary purposes, that nothing could much improve them.

ALEXANDERS, ROUND-LEAVED.

ROUND-LEAVED BELL-FLOWER.A blue pigment is made from the corolla; with the addition of alum it produces a green colour.

ROUND-LEAVED SUN-DEW.

Crowfoot, round-rooted - Ranunculus bulbosus.

755. , round-jointed - articulatus.

c. Round-leaved ditto l.b.

713 Gleditsia triacanthos Three-thorned Acacia c.m. 714 - v. horrida Strong-spined ditto c.m. 715 - v. monosperma Single-seeded ditto c.m. 716 Fraxinus rotundifolia Round-leaved Ash c.m. 717 excelsior v. crispa Curled-leaved ditto c.m. 718 v. diversifolia Various-leaved ditto c.m. 719 v. pendula

Amaryllis lutea Yellow Amaryllis l. 167 Allium victorialis Long rooted Garlick c.m. 168 sphaerocephalon Small round-headed ditto c.m. 169 descendens Purple-headed ditto c.m. 170 nutans Nodding ditto c.m. 171 senescens Narcissus-leaved Garlick c.m.

29 Cyclamen Coum Round-leaved Cyclamen l. 30 hederaefolium Ivy-leaved ditto l. 31 Lysimachia dubia Purple Loosestrife l. 32 Phlox pilosa Hairy Lychnidea l. 33 - ovata Oval-leaved ditto l. 34 - suffruticosa Shrubby ditto l.

ROUND-LEAVED BOG BEAN.This is a beautiful aquatic, and claims a place in all ornamental pieces of water.

As the water drains away, the loam and chalk will become fixed closely round the bulbs, and they will remain alive and grow.

California and the territories round her have produced one thousand millions of dollars in gold in twenty years.

fast rushing round and round the fatal circle of absorbing ruin!...

fast rushing round and round the fatal circle of absorbing ruin!...

Imagine the young people beginning life in the average city flat, at a rent of twenty to thirty dollars a month, with its shams, its makeshifts, its depressing, unsanitary, morally unsafe quarters for the maid, its friction with janitor and landlordthe whole sordid round necessitated by the mere manner of building, and by that only.

Do we say   around   or  round