Little but the city and its immediate surroundingswere left unsubdued, all escape from the conquering Turk seemed hopeless.
There is an unconscious attitude or bearing to persons in newsurroundings which there is no mistaking.
And if this be so, we must take it that the 'Ka' of this great and learned Queen has won secrets of more than mortal worth from her surroundingsamongst the stars.
I went on: "In conversation at a place and time and amid surroundings so pleasing, and in a solitude inviting to confidence, I got a glimpse of her inner life.
Nothing whatever to show who had done the deed, or even that a deed has been done; except the victim, and his surroundings incidental to the deed!
I felt that it would be more delicate to learn what I wanted to know of Miss Trelawny's surroundings from herself, rather than from her servants.
The exit from the church was accomplished quietly, with every appearance of peace and happiness, in complete confidence in these surroundings so recently the scene of massacre and other horrors.
Then from out the more and more profound stillness of mysurroundings the night watchmen with muffled steps begin discreetly to use their castanets.
Here was a peace and security, an atmosphere of contentment and comfort, entirely lacking in the surroundings of the house.
And to this place, upon which he had lavished what remained of his fortune, Philbrook brought his wife and little daughter, as strange to their surroundings as the delicate flowers which pined and drooped in that unfriendly soil.
There is no need to dwell on her uneventful life, and a very brief description of her surroundings will be sufficient to show the sort of atmosphere in which she lived.
In a somewhat bewildered way, they gaze at the shifting crowd of strange faces, and wonder whether it would be possible to feel completely at home where all the surroundings of life seem ever changing and unfamiliar.
It was to Erica like a dream of pain, the surroundings were so lovely, the sunshine so perfect, and her own heart so sore.
Yes, that was indeed a very true definition of happiness; and of late the surroundings had been so grim and stormy.
Was it the mention of her every-day life, with its surroundings unknown to him?
Acts of disloyalty to Christ are even more distressing to him in surroundings which are sacred and when committed by those who have made loud protestations of love.
Many of his followers to-day share his experience in part; even in surroundings which all observers envy, their hearts are crushed by secret sorrows and by the knowledge of approaching pain.
We must inquire into all the surroundings of this far away time.
If we will consider the surroundings of their manufacturing sites, we will see the force of this remark.
Their surroundings would be simple and natural--not artificial and complex, as in modern times.
The presentsurroundings are of the gloomiest character.
Knowing how carefully geologists inquire into all the surroundings of a find, surely, if Capellini and others are the competent men they are admitted to be, they would have informed us long ago if they were not found in undisturbed strata.
Mr. Stephens refers us to the writings of Herrera, an early historian, for a description of a game of ball played at Mexico, where the surroundings must have been much the same as is here represented.
The mound and its surroundings are so interesting that they deserve special mention.
We wish to see how far back in the geological history of the globe we can find evidence of man's existence, and we desire to learn hissurroundings and the manner of his life.
The whole appearance of the place and its surroundings indicate that the family or little community who inhabited it were in good circumstances, and the lords of the surrounding country.
Cooper has told us of the climate and geographical surroundings of California at that early time.
Researches into the surroundingsof these people, combined with what we have already learned as to the culture, customs, and manners of the Neolithic people in the preceding pages, throw no little light on this age.
Titian in this early group casts every convention aside; a beautiful woman and lovely children are placed in surroundings whose charm is devoid of hieratic and religious significance.
Here the Gothic surroundings become very florid, and have a gingerbread-cake effect, which Italian taste would hardly have tolerated.
Their surroundings as they grow up, the home, the food, the associates, all are bad.
All the grandeur and the joy of life and its surroundings flooded the imaginations of the new scholars; a definite basis from which to leap into the future was secured; the past was invoked to give birth to the future.
He had done services to his country, which are forgotten amid the factious surroundings of his career.
The realisation of this temporary connection of the body and its surroundings is a training for the Antarmukha Jiva, for it enables him to turn towards Ishvara and the permanent aspect of Jiva.
So the body of the Jiva and its surroundings are temporarily attached to the Jiva.
From Vrindavana to Mathura we proceed from the inner man to the outer man, from the everlasting companions of Sri Krishna to His surroundings as an Avatara.
Body after body, surroundings after surroundings, are dreams, as it were, in the mind that bears all through the bubbles arising in the ocean of Jivic existence.
As the dream vanishes in the wakeful state, so the body and its surroundings disappear with the transformation called Death.
The child had been beautiful even in her rags and amid the surroundings of the hovel in the sage, but now, in a pretty white dress, with her shining curls brushed and her face clean and rosy, she was lovely.
Venters rode on and on, not losing in the interest of his wide surroundings any of his caution or keen search for tracks or sight of living thing.
Hence animals learn to control and to disguise themselves to such an extent that some of them can even adapt the colour of their bodies to that of their surroundings (by means of what is known as the "chromatic function").
He ventured to say this was almost entirely due to the unwholesome surroundings in which they were brought up.
Perhaps some men are independent of antecedents andsurroundings and have an initial force within themselves which is in no way due to causation; but this is supposed to be a difficult question and it may be as well to avoid it.
When, however, her new life was beginning to lose its newness, and when her old acquaintances came to see her, her present surroundings became more like her past, and on this she herself began to get like her past too.
Drunkenness is so much a matter of habit, and habit so much a matter of surroundings, that if you completely change the surroundings you will sometimes get rid of the drunkenness altogether.
The surroundings were the old familiar ones, but the surrounded were changed almost beyond power of recognition.
Perhaps the shock of so great a change in his surroundings had accelerated changes in his opinions, just as the cocoons of silkworms, when sent in baskets by rail, hatch before their time through the novelty of heat and jolting.
With his antecedents and surroundings it was the most natural thing in the world for him to have done, yet in what a frightful position had not his morality landed him.
But there was a changed part, and the effect of unchanged surroundings upon this was to make everything seem almost as strange as though he had never had any life but his prison one, and was now born into a new world.
This was the effect of unchanged surroundings upon the unchanged part of him.
But much as Miss Pontifex had done, she could not all at once undo the effect of such surroundings as the boy had had at Battersby.
She and her surroundings had a fascination for Bret Harte that was almost morbid.
Even the magnificence of the Swiss mountains is almost spoiled for the real lover of nature by those surroundings from which only the skilled mountain-climber is able to escape.
I cannot help thinking that the people who have lost this gentle, sympathetic, characteristic figure from their domestic life and surroundings have not acquired an equal gain through his harsh labors.
His dress was careless, and his general manner one of supreme indifference to surroundings and circumstances.
One March morning after a light fall of snow I saw where one had come up out of his hole, which was in the side of our path to the vineyard, and after a moment's survey of the surroundings had started off on his travels.
She almost has it in her to be a really learned woman," he would say to himself, and in other surroundings it is possible that his ideal for her might have been realised.
But though possibly there was less power of sympathy with her deepest self than she had any idea of, there had been nothing in her life or surroundings to stunt or thwart her individuality.
But Mary noticed nothing of her surroundings as the vehicle turned into Pall Mall.
Her luxurious surroundings seemed to strike an alien note.
The beauty of the surroundings must be a pleasant contrast to those dull prison walls from which the inmates have just escaped.
The circumstances and surroundings of the European and Eurasian community are so different that the scheme will require considerable readaptation.
Perhaps a change of air and surroundings will do him good.
Not an eye did they give to their surroundings until the music came to a temporary halt.
But she at once thoroughly realized that the surroundings which were favorable to the progress of the duke's love were not the bedroom and the dressing-room of Mademoiselle Vanda.
Vaudrey, who arrived before his colleagues, studiously contemplated the surroundings ironically.
She knew well enough that caprice, the love of those who do not love, lives on luxury, intoxicating perfumes, shimmering silk, and all the mysterious surroundings of draperies which are the accompaniment of the adventure.
Although she was rich, she strove to introduce into her official surroundings the bourgeois and provincial orderly methods that she had been so virtuously taught.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surroundings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
