encompassment

Example Sentences

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Made bold by success, he got his feet on the floor and stood up, clinging to the brass foot-rail of the bed until the unstable encompassments had once more come to rest.

From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Lynde, Francis

With the encompassments to help, it was so desperately easy to imagine himself once more the "d�butantes' darling," as Westfall had often called him in friendly derision.

From The Real Man by Lynde, Francis

He felt that Brouillard was merely responding to the subtle influences of time, place, and encompassments and took no shame for being an analytical rather than a sympathetic listener.

From The City of Numbered Days by Lynde, Francis

Digging deeply in the inspirational field, Griswold speedily became oblivious to most of his encompassments; to all of them, indeed, save those which bore directly upon the beloved task.

From The Price by Lynde, Francis