Example Sentences

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In his mind he could carry the form and the rugged grandeur of a mountain; upon a crag he could hang his recollection, but this flat endlessness is ever an unencompassed mystery.

From An Arkansas Planter by Read, Opie Percival

But how could an ape or an idiot know of a freedom so sweet and silent and unencompassed and unconditional as death?

From The Ape, the Idiot & Other People by Morrow, W. C.