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
But, lady! now a deeper gloom Surrounds thy lover's soul, And wilder floods of grief and woe, Around his spirit roll.
From Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems by Bartley, James Avis
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)
Red the far summit flames with morn, While in the plain a glistening Court Surrounds the king who practised scorn Through such a mask of sport.
From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George
