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  • Project 9, as far as Mae knew, was the all-encompassing name for the secret research being done at the Circle.†   (source)
  • It was, said Fudge, a difficult job that encompassed everything from regulations on responsible use of broomsticks to keeping the dragon population under control (the Prime Minister remembered clutching the desk for support at this point).†   (source)
  • Until then, while my court is aware that some sort of contest is being held among my closest friends and advisors"—he waved a huge, scarred hand to encompass the room—"you will keep your business private.†   (source)
  • Some of the guards entered the forest of pillars encompassing the colonnade.†   (source)
  • As it turned out, though, Josie Cormier had grown into a stunning young woman, one who was quiet and thoughtful and not at all like the vacuous, material girls who trolled the Mall of New Hampshire or encompassed the social elite of Sterling High-girls Lacy had always likened to black widow spiders, looking for someone they could destroy.†   (source)
  • Not of the tree and pain, but of one of his favorite tricks, Phineas in exaltation, balancing on one foot on the prow of a canoe like a river god, his raised arms invoking the air to support him, face transfigured, body a complex set of balances and compensations, each muscle aligned in perfection with all the others to maintain this supreme fantasy of achievement, his skin glowing from immersions, his whole body hanging between river and sky as though he had transcended gravity and might by gently pushing upward with his foot glide a little way higher and remain suspended in space, encompassing all the glory of the summer and offering it to the sky.†   (source)
  • The chamber inside could encompass my house ten times, stilts and all.†   (source)
  • It completely encompasses the distant tree, making it glow a hot blue-white and causing the surrounding air to crackle with electricity.†   (source)
  • I feel the bed shift and he encompasses my wrist with his hand and removes my arm from over my eyes.†   (source)
  • And so we began to suspect that there was a place more all-encompassing than where we were.†   (source)
  • Many people went straight into shock as their minds tried to encompass what they were looking at.†   (source)
  • This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at all humanity and human endeavor from the dawn of time.†   (source)
  • The sound of the chenda mushroomed over the temple, accentuating the silence of the encompassing night.†   (source)
  • She moved her hand in a gesture that encompassed not just the hootch but everything around it, the entire war, the mountains, the mean little villages, the trails and trees and rivers and deep misted-over valleys.†   (source)
  • Danny made a sweeping, all-encompassing gesture with his hands.†   (source)
  • Not only is it a perfectly respectable Bengali good name, meaning "he who is entire, encompassing all," but it also bears a satisfying resemblance to Nikolai, the first name of the Russian Gogol.†   (source)
  • When everyone else lost their temper, when stress encompassed them, your grandfather stayed calm.†   (source)
  • She was dead, irrevocably dead, the knowledge irrefutable as he lay on the pavement now, his own strange flight ended somehow—he didn't know how, he didn't know when he had stopped moving in the air—and he continued to stare at her, unable to move, unable to talk, unable to do anything, and he felt all wet and oozy as if he were lying in a swamp, and he was aware of something warm and wet encompassing him as he looked at his mother, her head at that wrong angle, a rag doll tossed away.†   (source)
  • s eyes were small, dark, and as all-encompassing as the lenses of some primitive video camera.†   (source)
  • The estate was a huge piece of land, acres, encompassing a horse barn, a large vegetable garden, and a pool, tended by a young white caretaker named Harry.†   (source)
  • Then also some of the clubs metamorphosed into something more unpredictable, more encompassing.†   (source)
  • Of the three, biblical myth probably covers the greatest range of human situations, encompassing all ages of life including the next life, all relationships whether personal or governmental, and all phases of the individual's experience, physical, sexual, psychological, spiritual.†   (source)
  • But it also encompasses another Dane who lived at the same time as Kierkegaard, the famous fairy-tale writer Hans Christian Andersen.†   (source)
  • That encompassing love that used to overwhelm me?†   (source)
  • It appears to widen into a narrow fan, an acute triangle of red light whose base encompasses all of Y.T.'s torso.†   (source)
  • Perry had come to understand that the Elders, whose lives were infinitely longer, could make plans that encompassed centuries.†   (source)
  • The aptitudes were the only way into the military, or any government post— though that didn't encompass all assignments available.†   (source)
  • It was an all-encompassing, shattering, deafening din, thundering rather than echoing, between the high peaks of the Hindu Kush.†   (source)
  • The township encompassed the Union Stock Yards and two large parks: Washington Park, with lawns, gardens, and a popular racetrack, and Jackson Park, a desolate, undeveloped waste on the lakeshore.†   (source)
  • This gift goes beyond eye-hand coordination, encompassing the ability to understand physical relationships, to think in three dimensions.†   (source)
  • To the left was the editorial office, encompassing about 350 square feet, with the windows facing Götgatan.†   (source)
  • Jason, the next element of the gift I am trying to leave to you encompasses knowledge and learning.†   (source)
  • "The Duke must know when I encompass his doom," the Baron said.†   (source)
  • Now you've been," and Buddy's gesture encompassed the hill, the pines and the severe, snow-gabled buildings breaking up the rolling landscape, "here."†   (source)
  • Until recently, she had not known what that might encompass in LuLing's case.†   (source)
  • The mistake we make in thinking of character as something unified and all-encompassing is very similar to a kind of blind spot in the way we process information.†   (source)
  • She inhaled his new scent, rubbed herself against his bristly skin, ran her hands over his lean, strong body, and felt a full, all-encompassing sense of peace that had nothing at all to do with the state of agitation that had taken possession of him.†   (source)
  • The balloon smile, the balloon rip was all-encompassing now as it wandered in deliriums to die in the meadows from which it had come, sinking down now beyond all the sleeping, ignorant and unknowing houses.†   (source)
  • "Each year," Zia said, "the Hall of Ages grows longer to encompass our history.†   (source)
  • It encompasses my old beliefs and helped me hold on to those beliefs even when I was hit the hardest with his "angel theory."†   (source)
  • But fraud also encompassed those who simply wanted to see how many people they could fool, not for money, but just to see if it was possible.†   (source)
  • Nita stands beneath the glass chandelier and holds her arms out, wide, to encompass the room in her gesture.†   (source)
  • Her milk flowed and, mysteriously, Norah felt herself becoming a river or a wind, encompassing everything: the daffodils on the dresser and the grass growing sweetly and silently outside, the new leaves pressing open against the buds of the trees.†   (source)
  • Tomorrowland encompassed everything from space travel to the household appliances of the future, depicting progress as a relentless march toward greater convenience for consumers.†   (source)
  • He had moved from a more nationalistic, all-encompassing theme of African unity to a more parochial one addressed to the Xhosa people, of whom he was one.†   (source)
  • Eventually, this war will end, and you will see that your duties encompass more than violence.†   (source)
  • 'It's just so all-encompassing,' I said with a sigh, shaking my head.†   (source)
  • Even after a month, I wasn't exactly sure what all that power encompassed, but one thing I did know was that when I cast a circle and called each element to it, all of them manifested very physically.†   (source)
  • "Your gaze encompasses all men, makes your most ordinary glance seem intimate, carnal," Dr. Ghosh had told her, "as though you are ravishing me with your eyes!"†   (source)
  • I say to you," he solemnly said, staring at the panel in a manner that encompassed and challenged them all, "some of our enormous crimes only happen because once upon a time a pack of chicken-hearted jurors refused to do their duty.†   (source)
  • Raphael made a sweeping gesture that encompassed the room.†   (source)
  • And what he yearned for at that moment, vaguely but with all his might, was unbounded music, absolute sound, a pleasant and happy all-encompassing, overpowering, window-rattling din to engulf, once and for all, the pain, the futility, the vanity of words.†   (source)
  • It was the new warden's first day on the job, and to celebrate, I overheard that they shook down the whole FCI, a tremendous and rare undertaking encompassing twelve units of twelve hundred women and every one of their lockers.†   (source)
  • Above the trees on either side, sheer gray walls of rock encompassed them, making echoes of the children's calls and the murmur of the cattle.†   (source)
  • Migraines assailed me in February 1974, bringing dizziness, nausea, and an encompassing sense of weakness.†   (source)
  • Max found the name, a large region encompassing what used to be the Ukraine and Georgia.†   (source)
  • For hours they stared relentlessly at the scarlet ribbon on the map and hated it because it would not move up high enough to encompass the city.†   (source)
  • They spoke no more of the small news of the Shire far away, nor of the dark shadows and perils that encompassed them, but of the fair things they had seen in the world together, of the Elves, of the stars, of trees, and the gentle fall of the bright year in the woods.†   (source)
  • My days of anxiety have indeed been many and painful in years past, when I had many terrors that encompassed me around [Abigail wrote on January 7, 1793, after John had been gone little more than a month].†   (source)
  • The job was harder now than before, not just because he had to beg to get it back, or because Goss gave him more to do around the store, still poking him with his long stick, unnecessarily because Deo's English vocabulary by now encompassed the functions of a grocery.†   (source)
  • Bourne ran to the desk and gently raised the old man's head, the shrill, deafening, all-encompassing alarm making communication-if communication were possible-impossible.†   (source)
  • He waved his hand vaguely, as if to encompass my entire experience.†   (source)
  • I slipped into the river of their breathing, floated in the current of Daddy's all-encompassing need.†   (source)
  • One of the Holy Grails in physics is to find the so-called Theory of Everything, the final theory that will encompass all the fundamental laws of nature.†   (source)
  • It was Connor, she thought, who kept it all going, tossing out comments, questions, knitting the group together with relentless cheer and encompassing affection.†   (source)
  • The smile, as smooth and practiced as the handshake, encompassed them both.†   (source)
  • To accomodate the leaders of the respective tribes, several deerskin tents had been laid out in a circular pattern, each encompassed in its own ring of campfires.†   (source)
  • Out of this new diversity has sprung a lexicon of new terms: Transgender—An umbrella term to encompass many forms of behavior, including transsexuals, transvestites, drag queens, drag kings, cross-dressers, female illusionists, gender benders, gender queens—although not limited to those definitions, and not all of those people want to be called transgender.†   (source)
  • I do believe we have encompassed the loveliness of all things lovely.†   (source)
  • I think the telephone should stop at midnight, like the buses, but I suppose its value also encompasses emergencies.†   (source)
  • Fenced and patrolled, identified at the highway as a think tank called the Quartermass Institute, the property encompasses eighteen hundred acres in the Virginia countryside: meadowed hills where deer graze, hushed woods of birch and beeches where a plenitude of small game thrives beyond the rifle reach of hunters, ponds with ducks, and grassy fields with nesting plovers.†   (source)
  • The woman made a few final, all-encompassing passes with her spray, then pulled off her gloves and lifted back her hood.†   (source)
  • After the brief ceremony, Stephen surrounded the newly wedded in a hug with his long encompassing arms.†   (source)
  • It encompassed the world.†   (source)
  • And in its encompassing fury it terrifies her as completely as if he had set loose in the car a cage full of savage rats.†   (source)
  • Quicker and quicker, greedy, wanting to encompass everything, to miss not one iota of pleasure.†   (source)
  • They could not he positive of what had happened, except that the area of destruction extended for eight miles from Orlando airport, encompassing College Park and Rollins College, and another explosion had centered on McCoy Air Force Base.†   (source)
  • A lotus springs forth from your navel, your hands churn the oceans, in three strides your feet encompass all the worlds.†   (source)
  • Starting up from this dream, he felt encompassed by a deep sadness.†   (source)
  • These gutted settlements could be encompassed in a glance, like barren desert.†   (source)
  • But—" Matson swept an arm, encompassed all of Cowpertown, "—this counts.†   (source)
  • Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day.   (source)
  • Lucy faced the situation bravely, though, like most of us, she only faced the situation that encompassed her.   (source)
  • When they got close, they saw that the fire encompassed an entire block.†   (source)
  • If ever there was a totemic memory that encompassed the man, it was that day.†   (source)
  • In her first weeks, the building had grown to encompass the life of two city blocks.†   (source)
  • Their minds rejected what they could not understand or encompass.†   (source)
  • Standing on the wide veranda that encompassed the obsidian clock tower, Celaena tried not to shiver.†   (source)
  • Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above.†   (source)
  • If she lived in the hotel long enough, it would encompass all of Russia.†   (source)
  • And now he saw that he had a wealth of data few such minds ever before had encompassed.†   (source)
  • There was one all-encompassing line, which wound across the country and back through time.†   (source)
  • I never understood the depth of this great love, how encompassing, how whole and complete.†   (source)
  • "The world," he said, gesturing all around us, as if this party, this deck encompassed it all.†   (source)
  • Li Van Hgoc made an encompassing gesture with his head, a kind of rolling motion.†   (source)
  • Ifs ...this," she said with an all-encompassing wave.†   (source)
  • Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses Size.†   (source)
  • Darkness encompassed me now and I wrestled with my faith.†   (source)
  • My idea of a graceful retirement does not encompass six or seven years of hearings and depositions.†   (source)
  • "April," I call out, the wind rushing up the stairs below and encompassing me: "Ma-ma, ma-ma."†   (source)
  • "Six figures encompass a wide spectrum," observed the countess.†   (source)
  • Darkness still encompassed us, although I knew that morning must be near.†   (source)
  • It was black, and warm, and all-encompassing.†   (source)
  • Surely each day encompassed forty-eight or even seventy-two hours.†   (source)
  • Ogreish gloom encompassed me in recapitulation of the agony of the night before.†   (source)
  • Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness, the frank knowledge that you killed her and robbed her of a future and a life.†   (source)
  • The shell of congestion encompassing the square was compacted now, those at the safer distances pressing for a closer look, trapping the others inside.†   (source)
  • I made myself into what I am, built all this"—she gestured sweepingly, the walls of the decade room encompassing, for her purposes, the entirety of Radch space—"all this, to keep that center safe.†   (source)
  • Jason, this month, you are going to learn a lesson that encompasses something that has been totally lacking in your life.†   (source)
  • But this—" She encompassed us both in her gaze, and said, "You both seem to think that there's some game going on here, that we can choose to play or not, that we can follow our feelings here and there and just leave when we don't like it any more.†   (source)
  • Hordes of people on the street, lighted Christmas trees sparkling high on penthouse balconies and complacent Christmas music floating out of shops, and weaving in and out of crowds I had a strange feeling of being already dead, of moving in a vaster sidewalk grayness than the street or even the city could encompass, my soul disconnected from my body and drifting among other souls in a mist somewhere between past and present, Walk Don't Walk, individual pedestrians floating up strangely isolated and lonely before my eyes, blank faces plugged into earbuds and staring straight ahead, lips moving silently, and the city noise dampened and deafened, unde†   (source)
  • And is it not also a consequence of Darwin's theory that we are part of something all-encompassing, in which every tiny life form has its significance in the big picture?†   (source)
  • Remember, as many commentators have said about the Persephone myth, it encompasses theyouthful female experience, the archetypal acquisition of knowledge of sexuality and of death.†   (source)
  • It's just one word, but as soon as I lay my tray down across from Breckin, I know exactly what all that word encompasses.†   (source)
  • "But it reads everything, you know," he says, rotating his hands impatiently in all-encompassing circles.†   (source)
  • In my case, though I didn't know how to write or paint, I had a great need to conceive and imagine, so compelling, so encompassing, I had to do it even when I knew my works would be subject to ridicule, would be called stupid and naive.†   (source)
  • Jason, in this last month, I'm going to introduce you to the one part of my ultimate gift to you that encompasses all of the other gifts as well as everything good you will ever do, have, or know in your life.†   (source)
  • Perrington's eyes fell upon the black ring on his left hand and darkened, as if his pupils had expanded to encompass all of each eye.†   (source)
  • She admires the workmen, comparing them favorably to the young men who come to Sunday supper, presumably as prospective beaux for one or another of the sisters, and later she finds the dead man beautiful—a response encompassing both sex and death.†   (source)
  • She linked to the questionnaire, which she realized was not short; it encompassed fully 120 questions.†   (source)
  • The document, issued in 2003 by the Department of Homeland Security, was written by a "red cell" group encompassing representatives of the Department of Homeland Security, the CIA, the Marines, corporate security firms, and Sandia National Laboratories.†   (source)
  • One second it seems like you could hold it in your hand, and the next it encompasses most of the tank.†   (source)
  • She tried to see the desert through his eyes, seeking to encompass all the rigors this planet accepted as commonplace, wondering at the possible futures Paul had glimpsed.†   (source)
  • =========================== My father, the Padishah Emperor, was 72 yet looked no more than 35 the year he encompassed the death of Duke Leto and gave Arrakis back to the Harkonnens.†   (source)
  • This pairing, the lad explained (while his cheeks grew red as a raspberry), might encompass not only the laying of rails and the manning of engines, but the ongoing maintenance of the system.†   (source)
  • "Mae," he said, "I truly believe that if we have no path but the right path, the best path, then that would present a kind of ultimate and all-encompassing relief.†   (source)
  • A serviceable definition, no doubt—one that would encompass everything from a kitchen cupboard in the countryside to a Chippendale in Buckingham Palace.†   (source)
  • The rapport was not as tender, not as sharing, not as encompassing as it had been with Alia and with the Old Reverend Mother in the cavern ....but it was a rapport: a sense-sharing of the entire being.†   (source)
  • For Mishka, "we" encompassed all his fellow prisoners—and not simply those he had known in Arkhangelsk.†   (source)
  • Player One proposes a category encompassing a specialized subset of phenomena— such as stringed instruments, or famous islands, or winged creatures other than birds.†   (source)
  • It encompassed the million or more who had toiled on the Solovetsky Islands or in Sevvostlag or on the White Sea Canal, whether they had toiled there in the twenties, or the thirties, or toiled there still.†   (source)
  • Having dedicated the first several years to a study of the French (covering their idioms and forms of address, the personalities of Napoleon, Richelieu, and Talleyrand, the essence of the Enlightenment, the genius of Impressionism, and their prevailing aptitude for je ne sail quoi), the Count and Osip spent the next few years studying the British (covering the necessity of tea, the implausible rules of cricket, the etiquette of foxhunting, their relentless if well-deserved pride in Shakespeare, and the all-encompassing, overriding importance of the pub).†   (source)
  • He and Arya wrestled with their minds for a few minutes—he seeking to escape her all-encompassing grip, she seeking to pin and hold him so that she could impose her will on his thoughts.†   (source)
  • A priest's love for God was so all-encompassing that it should erase the human craving for a family—my parents, brothers, sisters, and children were all Jesus.†   (source)
  • He took a long drink, finishing his vodka and continuing to watch her, his presence all-encompassing.†   (source)
  • What did we—" And then my father was moving across the room toward her, taking her in his arms, his big frame encompassing hers.†   (source)
  • It encompassed all that a couple was supposed to share: trust and commitment, hopes and dreams, a promise to make it through whatever the future might bring.†   (source)
  • Though they supposedly were friends—her mom and Eugenia had known each other all their lives—there'd always been an unspoken rivalry between the two of them, encompassing who had the better house and the better garden and everything in between, including which of them made the better red velvet cake.†   (source)
  • Some days he could encompass the world.†   (source)
  • I liked to have enough time invested to see a few cracks and get rid of anyone whose failings I knew I couldn't deal with in the long term, i. e., more than the six weeks that usually encompassed the fun-new-boyfriend phase.†   (source)
  • Food Street encompassed the crushing spectacle of some 30 restaurants within the stretch of two blocks.†   (source)
  • Such a round, all-encompassing term, as wide as the ocean, which I could also hear, distantly—the real waves this time.†   (source)
  • He saw the question in her eyes, but there seemed nothing he could say in front of Alec and Magnus, nothing that would encompass what he felt.†   (source)
  • The old primordial gods like Gaea and Tartarus ...How could you leave home and ever be independent of your parents, when they literally encompassed the entire world?†   (source)
  • There were the Blackthorns, the children huddled tightly in a group, Julian sitting with the baby on his lap, his free arm stretched out as if he could encompass the rest of his siblings, could pull them all in and protect them.†   (source)
  • I can see why you like it here," he said, making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science fiction books.†   (source)
  • Unlike those of Dras-Leona, the walls of the capital were long enough to encompass the whole of the city.†   (source)
  • The girl who has everything," he'd said, moving his hands in a tight, circular motion, as if that was all it took to encompass something so vast, not to mention vague.†   (source)
  • The silence was so deep and encompassing that he felt himself floating to a new height, some point above this room and then beyond, where he was one with the snow and where this scene in the room was something unfolding in a different life, a life at which he was a random spectator, like a scene glimpsed through a warmly lit window while walking on a darkened street.†   (source)
  • She'd realized that Valentine was going to kill her—had accepted it—and now Jace was here, and her fear had expanded to encompass him as well.†   (source)
  • They shall always have a place to land, though, for the remaining goblins and orcs could not possibly encompass even half of the lake's shoreline.†   (source)
  • Because I find just about all of it, she said — and swept her hand around the room, encompassing the house, the sea outside, all of the Kingdom, all of the world and sky — very, very sad.†   (source)
  • Andrews averaged fifteen to twenty books a week; his taste encompassed both trash and belle-lettres, and he liked poetry, Robert Frost's particularly, but he also admired Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and the comic poems of Ogden Nash.†   (source)
  • The development along Colorado's Front Range is not yet as all-encompassing as the sprawl of Los Angeles — where one-third of the surface area is now covered by freeways, roads, and parking lots — but someday it may be.†   (source)
  • I could leave, disappear into the night, which was vast, too, wide and all-encompassing, with so many places to hide.†   (source)
  • But my concerns are broader; they encompass the good of the Varden and the elves and everyone else who opposes Galbatorix.†   (source)
  • It was a big word—for Shadowhunters, one of the biggest, encompassing one of the most intense emotions you could ever have, the most significant commitment you could ever make to another person that wasn't about romantic love or marriage.†   (source)
  • The years during which he held the post-1935 to 1939-encompassed the dustiest, the down-and-outest the region had known since white men settled there, and young Herb Clutter, having, as he did, a brain expertly racing with the newest in streamlined agricultural practices, was quite qualified to serve as middleman between the government and the despondent farm ranchers; these men could well use the optimism and the educated instruction of a likable young fellow who seemed to know his business.†   (source)
  • The buildings were immense—great empty halls of such enormous proportions that many could have encompassed the whole of Carvahall.†   (source)
  • Roran drew near, and Eragon placed his right hand over the red scar while, at the same time, expanding his consciousness to encompass the trees and the plants and the animals that populated the gulch, save those he feared were too weak to survive his spell.†   (source)
  • He won this fight as he proceeded to the main salon, whence came the music, now loud, all-encompassing, and unbearably hypnotic.†   (source)
  • What he beheld was disconcerting: the clouds encompassed nearly half the horizon, and the largest of the dense white plumes looked as tall as the peaks of the Beor Mountains, too tall for Saphira to climb over.†   (source)
  • A hundred years of inconsolable grief and anger welled up within the Eldunari, like a roaring wave, and the dragons melded their minds with Eragon's and began to alter the spell, deepening it, widening it, and building upon it until it encompassed far more than he originally intended.†   (source)
  • The apartment encompassed most of two stories and was laid out perfectly for Moody to set up an office, in two wings that the realtor called villas.†   (source)
  • He drove the axe into snow that glowed faintly in starlight, and sank back into the all-encompassing pleasure whence he had come, with no thought or hope, but only movement and daring.†   (source)
  • Each morning I woke to deepening despair, and each day something happened to compound the encompassing sense of hopelessness.†   (source)
  • The festival encompassed all of Islam, not merely Iran, and, therefore, political rhetoric this day was confined to isolated caucuses of Iranians who chattered happily about the ayatollah's successful attempt to centralize power.†   (source)
  • Whether it may be good or bad, whether living according to it would be suffering or joy, I do not wish to discuss, possibly this is not essential—but the uniformity of the world, that everything which happens is connected, that the great and the small things are all encompassed by the same forces of time, by the same law of causes, of coming into being and of dying, this is what shines brightly out of your exalted teachings, oh perfected one.†   (source)
  • "Surya, the sun, is now about to be encompassed," said Ratri, staring out and upward, "and Indra slays the dragon.†   (source)
  • I learned that the bar had been built in 1933, to celebrate and capitalize upon the repeal of Prohibition, and its spacious, even somewhat cavernous dimensions were originally meant to encompass a dance floor.†   (source)
  • Lord of High Heaven and everything beneath it, from whose navel springs forth a lotus and whose hands churn the oceans-he, who in three strides encompasses all the worlds, the drum of whose glory strikes terror into the hearts of his enemies, upon whose right hand is the wheel of the law, who tethers catastrophes, using a snake for rope — Brahma was to feel more and more uncomfortable and distraught in the days that came to pass as a result of the promise rashly given to the Mistress of Death.†   (source)
  • When in the process of anatomizing the past or her relationship with Nathan, and the mystery of Nathan himself, she often had the habit of thrusting her face into her hands, as if to seek for an answer or a clue in the encompassing darkness of her cupped palms.†   (source)
  • Finally there is a sinister zone of likeness between Poland and the American South which, although anything but superficial, causes the two cultures to blend so perfectly together as to seem almost one in their shared extravagance—and that has to do with the matter of race, which in both worlds has produced centuries-long, all-encompassing nightmare spells of schizophrenia.†   (source)
  • I knew that I ought to hasten my descent towards the valley, as I should soon be encompassed in darkness; but my heart was heavy, and my steps slow.†   (source)
  • My beloved Sister, I write to you, encompassed by peril and ignorant whether I am ever doomed to see again dear England and the dearer friends that inhabit it.†   (source)
  • So was Wang Lung encompassed about with his troubles.†   (source)
  • His bulky hands all but encompassed the narrow waist "Like drownin', see?†   (source)
  • And then, in the midst of the still-encompassing dream, he felt himself master of Shangri-La.†   (source)
  • The warm damp balminess of spring encompassed her sweetly with the moist smells of new-plowed earth and all the fresh green things pushing up to the air.†   (source)
  • That in any true life you must go and be exposed outside the small circle that encompasses two or three heads in the same history of love.†   (source)
  • To Conway, seeing it first, it might have been a vision fluttering out of that solitary rhythm in which lack of oxygen had encompassed all his faculties.†   (source)
  • But that was too late too, the sister (the sisters were twins, born at the same time, yet either of them now gave the impression of being, encompassing as much living meat and volume and weight as any other two of the family) not yet having begun to rise from the chair, her head, face, alone merely turned, presenting to him in the flying instant an astonishing expanse of young female features untroubled by any surprise even, wearing only an expression of bovine interest.†   (source)
  • His mind tried to grasp and encompass as much of her life as it could, tried to understand and weigh it in relation to his own, as his hand rested on her shoulder.†   (source)
  • Beneath English trees I meditated on that lost maze: I imagined it inviolate and perfect at the secret crest of a mountain; I imagined it erased by rice fields or beneath the water; I imagined it infinite, no longer composed of octagonal kiosks and returning paths, but of rivers and provinces and kingdoms ....I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars.†   (source)
  • She encompasses the encompassing, nourishes the nourishing, and is the life of everything that lives.†   (source)
  • He goes to a house with two companions, and they take with them two dangerous weapons, either of which can encompass the death of a man.†   (source)
  • She seemed to have encompassed time.†   (source)
  • Let not the waters of Thy Mighty Wrath encompass me until I have cleansed my soul in the presence of them whom I injured.†   (source)
  • And coming out of the white elevator, you were in an Alhambra of roses and cellular ceilings, gilt and ivory, Florida feathering of plants and muffling of carpets, immense distances, and everywhere the pure purpose of supporting and encompassing the human creature in conveniences.†   (source)
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