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The danger must be enormously heightened if one community begins to believe that the other community is compassing deep-laid schemes for the promotion of its own ultimate ascendancy.

From Indian Unrest by Chirol, Valentine, Sir

Pride burned in her like a fire that cruelly illumines night, shining upon the destruction it is compassing.

From A Spirit in Prison by Hichens, Robert Smythe

It is compassing sea and land in its efforts to overcome, by ingenious financial and technical expedients, obstacles which should never have existed.

From The Acquisitive Society by Tawney, R. H.