compassed
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At last, like one that, long Compassed with good, is smit by sudden thought Of greater good, thus spake he: 'Have ye, sons, Here in this house the Blessed Sacrament?'
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey
Compassed within its pages, the reader will find the subject of soils, manures, crops, and animals, treated in a style easily comprehended.—N.Y.
From Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by Quinby, M. (Moses)
Why full of terror, Compassed with error, Trouble thy heart, For thy mortal part?
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma
So as she shows she seems the budding rose, Yet sweeter far than is an earthly flower; Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows; Compassed she is with thorns and cankered flower.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
Once was I guarded with manortial bands, Compassed with princes of the noble blood; Now am I fallen into my foemen's hands, And with my death must pacific their mood.
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)