compassed
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“Wild Swans” would seem to have laid bare every cruel irony of the volatile times it compassed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
The "great tracts of land" he imagines "compassed about with heavens fair" are not necessarily those of Eden.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2010
And as men's political horizons expand toward the world state, each man feels a stronger need to cherish some one region small enough to be compassed by one heart and mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
She compassed a weighty historical tome in 1922, after which fiction-writing seemed like child's play.
From Time Magazine Archive
I stood for a little in the parlour, feeling the darkness throb heavily about me with all the memories of that fatal night which had compassed my undoing.
From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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