One hand still held her slim and tapering fingers, and with the other he encompassed her trembling form, as their equal steps took them from the shore and brought them to the wig-wam of Net-no-qua.
It is hardly to be expected that it should, for acting, of all the arts, most demands a knowledge of the human mind which cannot be encompassed even by genius at seventeen.
He was already on the ground, pointing to the wooden fences which encompassed the fields on both sides of the track.
They furnished the darkness with which I was encompassed with all the crowded phases of a dream.
We caught not even a single glimpse her--could not have, they encompassed her so closely.
When Attila first gave audience to the Roman ambassadors on the banks of the Danube, his tent was encompassed with a formidable guard.
Yet the Goths themselves were astonished by the fierce and undaunted aspect of their formidable antagonist; and their historian has compared Attila to a lion encompassed in his den and threatening his hunters with redoubled fury.
Hengist and Horsa come to us encompassed with Gothic traditions that belong to other nations.
The gates of the city were thrown open, and the new Emperor of the Romans, encompassed on every side by the Gothic arms, was conducted, in tumultuous procession, to the palace of Augustus and Trajan.
On every side," said the King, "I am encompassed by perils, and I know not what to do.
What is the link by which these souls, shut in and encompassed as they are by the details of daily life, lay hold on the ideal?
The black melancholy of Buddhism encompassed and overshadowed me.
Athol next suffered; and, as he had sighed for a crown, his head, when it was severed from his body, was encompassedby an iron one.
For when they perceived by night that they were encompassed by the barbarians, they marched straight to the enemies' camp, and got very near the King's pavilion, with a resolution to kill him and leave their lives about him.
Our next step was into a fair and spacious plain, encompassed with a huge wall, where he that’s once in must never look to come out again.
Wherefore being encompassed with darkness, and having such a mist before our eyes, we have looked up, and through his will have laid aside the cloud wherewith we were surrounded.
But what saith the prophet again; The counsel of the wicked encompassedme about.
He answered, All those are the angels, venerable in their dignity, 117 With those is the Lord encompassed as with a wall: but the gate is the Son of God, who is the only way of coming unto God.
For if you would enter into any city, and that city should he encompassed with a wall, and had only one gate, could you enter into that city except by that gate?
Some of you young people may have come up to a great city for the first time to carve out a position for yourselves, and are for the first time encompassed by the temptations of being unknown in a crowd.
I do not need to tell the story of how, on the seventh day, the host encompassed the city seven times, and at last they were allowed to break the long silence with a shout.
Crevassed with wide splits, encompassed round by lofty mountain walls, the gorge was at once fascinating and forbidding, grand yet terrible.
From moment to moment the trooping clouds, as if pausing to pay homage to the illustrious recluse, encompassed it about.
I was in a dark, remorseless mood, which lasted me till we reached Bree, a shabby decayed town, encompassed by walls and ruined turrets.
My ear soon guided me to its entrance, which was marked by a shed encompassed with mossy fragments, and almost concealed by bushes of the caper-plant in full red bloom.
Though encompassed with a myriad griefs and afflictions, We have, with mighty confidence, summoned the peoples of the earth to the Day Spring of Glory.
Know thou, moreover, that We have been cast into an afflictive Prison, and are encompassedwith the hosts of tyranny, as a result of what the hands of the infidels have wrought.
This is the Mercy that hath encompassed the entire creation, the Day whereon the grace of God hath permeated and pervaded all things.
We can well perceive how the whole human race is encompassedwith great, with incalculable afflictions.
Take heed lest ye allow yourselves to be shut out as by a veil from this Day Star that shineth above the dayspring of the Will of your Lord, the All-Merciful, and whose light hath encompassed both the small and the great.
Behold how the manifold grace of God, which is being showered from the clouds of Divine glory, hath, in this day, encompassed the world.
Thus hath His grace encompassed thee, and encompassed the whole of creation.
And when the days of Moses were ended, and the light of Jesus, shining forth from the Day Spring of the Spirit, encompassed the world, all the people of Israel arose in protest against Him.
The peoples of Persia, on the other hand, though the repository of a perspicuous and luminous Revelation, the glory of whose loftiness and renown hath encompassed the whole earth, are dispirited and sunk in deep lethargy.
Though the world is encompassed with misery and distress, yet no man hath paused to reflect what the cause or source of that may be.
I bear witness that Thy power hathencompassed the entire universe, and that the hosts of the earth can never dismay Thee, nor can the dominion of all peoples and nations deter Thee from executing Thy purpose.
This revelation is a token of His mercy that hath encompassedall created things.
Since the architect left it, no person save the old gardener, had ever been observed to enter even the delicate iron railing that encompassed the grounds.
The woman clenched this truth with an imprecation on herself which made the young girl start up and look wildly around, as if she believed herself encompassed by a band of demons.
Despite the deadly danger which encompassed him, he found time for disappointment in the news that Butler was only wounded.
It was indeed completely encompassed by precipitous walls about thirty feet in height, which defied the advent of any other living thing than a lizard or a rock-rabbit.
Very small remains of the castle, now built up into a gaol, appear; or of the walls that formerly encompassed the town.
Newport was formerly encompassed with a wall; but of this there are no remains; nor of the three gates mentioned by Leland, except some small vestiges of the one next the bridge.
This town was formerly encompassedby a wall, and vestiges of its four gates yet remain.
At the poor village of Blaneporth, on the left of the road, is a large circular area encompassed by a moat, which is most probably the remains of a British fortification.
The fine views which its elevation commands, encompassed by hanging woods, and extensive plantations, its shady walks and picturesque cascades, render it a place deservedly attractive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encompassed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: comprehended; enclosed; enveloped; involved; surrounded; wrapped; wreathed
