Many of the larger lakes are encircled with smaller ones like central gems girdled with sparkling brilliants.

On Christmas-day a sprig of holly is usually placed in the middle of the pudding, and about a wineglassful of brandy poured round it, which, at the moment of serving, is lighted, and the pudding thus brought to table encircled in flame.

I was told on the spot that General Vinoy, who was on horseback, became encircled in a mob of women, had a stone and a cap thrown at him, and thought it prudent to escape, leaving the National Guards and linesmen to promenade in good fellowship three abreast, dispersing themselves about the outer boulevards and about Paris.

Rich in resplendent foliage, and still more rich in fruit, the tree easily became encircled with an atmosphere of myth in the fancy of the imaginative Hindoo.

" Encircled by four pairs of Winnebago arms and with eager questions being hurled at her from all sides, it seemed as if the old times had come again indeed.

There is no more inaccessible place upon the earth, and few more encircled by awe to the deep considering.

Two or three of the ladies present looked away from the new-comer and at each other, and several of them seemed spontaneously to encircle without approaching her, while anothergrey-haired, elderly and slightly frightenedwith an "Adieu, ma bonne tante" to the Duchess, was hastily aided in her retreat down the long line of old gilded rooms.

The celebrated spire of Ross church, peeping over a noble row of elms, here fronts the ruined Castle of Wilton, beneath the arches of whose bridge, the Wye flows through a charming succession of meadows, encircling at last the lofty and well-wooded hill, crowned with the majestic fragments of Gooderich Castle, and opposed by the waving eminences of the forest of Dean.

Here for the second time since Beïla we found a village and traces of inhabitants, the former encircled for a considerable distance by fields of maize and barley, enclosed by neat banks and hedgesa grateful contrast to the desolate waste behind us.

Encircled on all sides with lovers, would she keep faith with an adventurer gone for an indefinite quest?