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This his body had ceased from suffering and endurance, yet the very self of Christian might bear with him unassuaged the wounds and aches her malice had compassed.

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence

Uniting their talents and their rancour against the imperious and uncompromising woman who had compassed their disgrace, Harley and Bolingbroke, in their turn, had set about overthrowing the sway of the Duchess.

From Political Women, Vol. 2 by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

That prince reflected that what an emperor could not accomplish, the Jesuits his subjects had compassed.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various

Thus driven from his home, the writer crossed the seas, and passed from land to land, going on and on, till he had compassed the round globe.

From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)

But one thing comforts me: a bit of madness has underlain every great work until that work was completed and had compassed its end.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann