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

Yet, love redeems the loving; yet in thy need avail The Soul whose light surrounds thee, the faith that will not fail.

A broad pathway encircles the edifice, and a bridge leads from the extreme end over the Rue Marca into the Castle Park, called also "lower plantation" (basse plante) in distinction from the "upper plantation" (haute plante), which surrounds the barracks.

In the centre is the band-stand, and a bed of roses surrounds it.

Just ere the dawn the darkness deepest Surrounds the earth as with a pall; Dry up thy tears, O thou that weepest, That on thy sight the rays may fall!

The mystery which surrounds the orders is extraordinary, and the secret has been well kept, a fact which cynics attribute to the exclusion of ladies from the secret circle.

Ah, you are not aware with what tender solicitude, with what kindness, with what jealous affection an old mistress surrounds you.

The fairy who lodges in this place has left a something of herself on all which surrounds her, and that something transforms all into jewels, even the least pin.

A dreary desert surrounds Ispahán on every side save to the southward, where dark masses of rock, a thousand feet high, break the sky-line.

The balustrade which surrounds the altar is composed of massive silver.

The cliff from which this immense block was separated surrounds the temple, on three sides, at a distance of 100 feet, forming colossal perpendicular walls, in which, as at Adjunta, enormous colonnades, larger and smaller temples, from two to three stories high, are excavated.

The temples which I saw here, of course only from the outside, are very small, extremely plain, and destitute of the slightest peculiarity of architecture; the round entrance-hall surrounds a kind of fore-court, enclosed by a wall.

The pilasters have Corinthian capitals of gilt; and the bolder or projecting parts of a gallery, which surrounds the room, are covered with the same metal.

Women never appear, but the entire male population, with their children assembled at the great park which surrounds the mosque, clad in festival attire, each bringing a prayer rug to spread upon the ground.

Ice surrounds us, low nimbus clouds intermittently discharging light snow flakes obscure the sky, here and there small pools of open water throw shafts of black shadow on to the cloudthis black predominates in the direction from whence we have come, elsewhere the white haze of ice blink is pervading.

All that surrounds me is either so savage or so limited, that it excites sadness and discontent.

Leisure surrounds them, and discord shuns them.

The castle which surrounds a quadrangular court, occupies nearly the summit of the hill, which is ascended by superb stone steps.

Yet special majesty surrounds him and when, thirty-six years after the conflict, a hunter mistakes him for a deer and kills him by shooting him in the right foot, the Pandavas are inconsolable.

Usa conceals him, but the news reaches her father and he surrounds the palace with his demon army.

We are, I assure you, under the necessity of being oeconomists, where the most abundant wealth could not render us externally comfortable: and the little we procure, by a clandestine disposal of my unnecessary trinkets, is considerably diminished,* by arbitrary impositions of the guard and the poor,** and a voluntary tax from the misery that surrounds us.

Make the little circle which surrounds you happy by sympathy and interest.

Is not the glory which surrounds themand how short a time that lasts!a human attempt to make consciences comfortable, and to relieve human doubts?

And this chef d'œuvre of antique workmanship surrounds a sharp, shrewdish, modern face, withal pretty.

The village surrounds a large, three-cornered green, which was once the scene of a considerable fair.