surrounds
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But might that title be more accurate, she is asking, if changed to “Do As I Say, Not As Everyone and Everything That Surrounds You Does”?
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2011
Eventually, these jottings resulted in a book of poetry, “The Border Surrounds Us,” and a harrowing novel, “The Lizard Cage,” about imprisoned Burmese dissidents.
From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2010
From Janasthán he stole the child Of Janak by his art beguiled, And in his palace locked and barred Surrounds her with a Rákshas guard.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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!
From The Liberty Minstrel by Clark, George W.
Though this barren shore Our place of meeting, and no gathered host Surrounds us, yet upon our changed estate I seek your counsel.
From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan
