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Encompassed by his Gods of Storm He summoned Rambhá, fair of form, And spoke a speech for woe and weal, The saint to mar, the God to heal.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

But it seems hard to suppose with Mr. Greenhow, that, where the World Encompassed differs from the Famous Voyage, the statements are “positive and evidently wilful falsehoods.”

From The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery by Twiss, Travers

Encompassed by such an atmosphere, Eric stood at the window and looked out over the river to the mountains beyond, the castles, the towns, the villages, on the banks and on the heights.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold

The World Encompassed, which probably was in manuscript form a few years after Drake's return to England, did not appear in print until 1628.

From Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579 by Heizer, Robert F.

And this is beauty to me, to be lifted and gone In a motion human inhuman, two and one Encompassed, and many reduced to none,         You other women.

From Look! We Have Come Through! by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)