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They were compassing bulls! they were besetting bulls! they were strong Bashan bulls!

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor

See how it appeared to us at several views as we were compassing the east and south-east and south of it, to get to the road, on the south-west of it, and the road itself.

From A Voyage to New Holland by Dampier, William

Being to a certain extent soldiers, their business was to kill something and they were compassing the destruction of their present enemy by drinking wine and eating not sea-urchins but cold boiled artichokes. 

From Diversions in Sicily by Jones, Henry Festing