Flowering almonds encircled the terrace, and, in a greater spiral, groves of chestnuts wound in and out and down among the moist thickets by the western palace wing.
A ragged calico mantle half-encircled his body, while his nether garment was composed of an ordinary shirt, the sleeves of which were made to perform the office that is usually executed by a much more commodious arrangement.
Arms, legs, and feet were encircled in twenty folds of the thong, in less time than we have taken to record the circumstance.
He bared his gray locks, and looked around the timid and quiet throng by which he was encircled with a firm and collected countenance.
It was not long, however, before the restless savages were heard beating the brush, and gradually approaching the inner edge of that dense border of young chestnuts which encircled the little area.
The lodges were deserted; but a broad belt of earnest faces encircled a spot in their vicinity, whither everything possessing life had repaired, and where all were now collected, in deep and awful silence.
Yet to look upon grand floral decorations; to behold wreath-encircled pillar and arch in lordly halls, and baskets piled and pyramids raised from the wealth of fairy-land conservatories!
When we remember how they died, In dark ravine and on the mountain side, In leaguered fort and fire-encircled town, And where the iron ships went down.
Afterwards, when peace and plenty came to be housemates in the land, the gold beads were redeemed, and the necklace, dearer than ever, encircled the neck of the only daughter.
There is nothing that the wearer of a crown cannot do, provided that crown is encircled with laurel.
His eyes then wandered around the group of faces that encircled the fire, with that scrutinising glance, that showed a capacity for reading the characters of men in their looks.
Kut itself was so farencircled that the Turks had no option but to abandon it with guns and prisoners.
Russia had her hands too full to go to Serbia's aid, and though a Franco-British attempt was made as the net closed round the encircled Serbians, it was too late to save the situation.
Not only was the sun encircled by a beautiful halo, but also by those lovely lights of the Arctic regions known as parhelia, or mock-suns.
The altered shape of the cap is now a cylinder with a flat top, from the centre of which a thrum of purple silk-thread depends, encircled by a piece of crumpled white paper, which is always suffered to remain as part of the ornament.
She stood close beside him, encircled by his arm, as she told her story.
The young matron stopped and set down the great glass dish encircled by two massive silver snakes, in dismay.
Then he also quietly encircled the trunk of his opponent with those terrible arms of his, which had shown themselves capable on one occasion of throttling a bear, and prepared to crush his adversary.
As soon as Juon Tare perceived that his antagonist was foolhardy enough to try a fall with him, he complacently allowed his body to be encircled and calmly murmured: 'Ho, ho!
On his head he wore one of the thick stiff hats with wide brim, encircled with a scarlet and gold cord, in use alike by the cowboys and Mexican vaqueros.
Her black silk dress was the perfection of simplicity; its sombre hues relieved only by the white collar which encircled her slender throat.
It had of old been the seat of a nobleman, and the grounds which encircled it were such as are rarely to be found within a few miles of the metropolis; and they would in vain be sought for now.
In the Philippine Islands Spain retains one of the colonies with which she once encircled the globe.
But though stronger than Sebastopol, stronger than the Rock of Gibraltar, Vicksburg was destined to fall before that mighty army that encircled it, and was slowly starving the city into subjection.
The city which was encircled by this wall had passed through two periods of history.
His brow is sometimes encircled by a diadem or bandeau, like a young priest of the Pagan gods; that is, in fact, the favorite figure.
When Apollo was born, a halo of serene light encircled his cradle, the nymphs of heaven attended, and bathed him in pure water, and girded a broad golden band around his form.
When on a mountain in Ceylon, suddenly a flame of light descended upon him andencircled the crown of his head with a circle of light.
The great century of the Aztecs was encircled by a serpent grasping its own tail, and the great calendar stone is entwined by serpents bearing human heads in their distended jaws.
A short sword is suspended from the belt; the feet are covered with low shoes, with showy buckles; the head is encircled with a silver band, one inch wide, with a brilliant pin in the centre.
Her hair should hang loosely over the shoulders, the head encircled with a string of feldspar or pearl beads.
Her costume consists of a white dress, cut low in the neck, and encircled around the waist with a colored belt; hair arranged in heavy braids, and ornamented with showy hair pins.
The neck is adorned with a large necklace of white beads, while the head is encircled with a band of gold, ornamented with beads and showy plumes.
The hair must be done up in a neat coil, and encircled with a band of white flowers.
His lofty forehead and Roman nose added to the beauty of his face, but the face was marred somewhat by cheeks that were too plump, and small eyes encircled with red lids.
When they rose again the white stranger had vanished, and on the spot where she had knelt a silvery little fountain gushed forth, which almost encircled the grave and then ran on till it reached a lake near by.
Numerous brass rings encircled his arms above and below the elbows.
A gay handkerchief with a gold lace border encircled his head, from beneath which flowed a heavy mass of straight, jet-black hair.
The rash daring of his enterprise, the dangers which encircled him, were such as dazzled and fascinated the imagination of those knights in whom the true spirit of chivalry found rest.
The warriors of the Religions smoked, and chewed, and snored supine, clad in cotton drawers and a pair of clumsy shoes; their necks encircled by the Brahminical thread, token of their privileged and sacred extraction.
Gilfoyle went over to Kedzie like a lonely hound; and she laced still tighter the arms that encircled her.
Coleridge:-- 'A cloud-encircled meteor of the air.
