5 Verbs to Use for the Word about

So sceptics compassed the Medium about.

In making the about, an officer, mounted, habitually turns to the left.

We consumed the rest of the morning in establishing ourselves in our rooms, and in putting on our best round-abouts; for I was not the owner of a coat that had skirts to it, unless, indeed there might be a few old garments of that sort among the effects that had been removed from Clawbonny to the Wright farm.

In the text I suspect we should read 'fly-about' for flye-boat.

A long howl, like that of a lonely wolf on the waste when he calls to his kindred to tell him their where-abouts, came faintly up to my ears.

5 Verbs to Use for the Word  about