envisioned
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He noted that his job was “now environed with unusual difficulties.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2022
Plainly in Lincoln's early life there was a great heart, cherishing a high hope, but environed with poverty, familiar with reversals, unchampioned, unknown.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
The word porticus, which means “a walking place environed with pillars,” exactly corresponds with the external circular walk surrounding the round tower of the church.
From The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by Addison, Charles G.
On our way back to Chorillos we passed the beautifully situated village of Susco, environed with neat country-houses, which was a favourite summer retreat of the inhabitants of Lima, before Chorillos reached its present development.
The difficulties in which he found himself environed must always produce one of two effects on every man—either rouse him to tenfold diligence and effort and daring, or sink him in corresponding inactivity and despondency.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Headley, Joel Tyler
