Which preposition to use with encompassing

with Occurrences 48%

' The earth pilgrims went far after this, yet more softly than when they first left their beautiful country,for then the little Pilgrim had been glad, believing that as all had been made clear to her in her own life, so that all that concerned the life of man should be made clear; but this was more hard and encompassed with pain and darkness, as that which is in the doing is always more hard to understand than that which is accomplished.

in Occurrences 5%

But no completely efficient form of organisation can be encompassed in an hour, nor can man legislate for the unknown factor.

on Occurrences 4%

Yet even when they had been encompassed on all sides, not even then would they accept any terms of surrender, though Didius made them many promises.

within Occurrences 2%

What immense mischief, pregnant with oppression and with nameless woe, is encompassed within the circle of this single fact!

about Occurrences 1%

He feels himself encompassed about by dangers: perhaps some one watched him as he smoothed out his bracken bed; or if he went into a cave a robber saw him and will come later in the night, when he is fast asleep, murder him, and throw his body into the sea; or he may have made his bed in the path of the bear or in the haunt of snakes.

of Occurrences 1%

These are only then gladdest of other, when they meet in some foreign region, where the encompassing of strangers unites them closer, till at last they get new, and throw off one another.

at Occurrences 1%

"You seenwhat?" "I don't see why you dunno him," parried Racey (it was a weak parry, but the best he could encompass at the moment).

for Occurrences 1%

In the Pioneers, as in a moving picture, are made to pass before us the hardy occupations and spirited, amusements of a prosperous settlement, in, a fertile region, encompassed for leagues around with the primeval wilderness of woods.

without Occurrences 1%

They, however, by reason of their abundant army were never in sight of destruction, whereas the Romans, not being many in the first place, kept continually growing fewer and were encompassed without difficulty.

Which preposition to use with  encompassing