compassed

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Wrapt in mist and washed with rain Is the hill of Rahinane; Compassed by the hosts of sleep Is its keep.

From Sprays of Shamrock by Scollard, Clinton

Why full of terror, Compassed with error, Trouble thy heart, For thy mortal part?

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma

Once was I guarded with manortial bands, Compassed with princes of the noble blood; Now am I fallen into my foemen's hands, And with my death must pacific their mood.

From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

There, tinted like the tender green Of lotus filaments, was seen, Compassed by countless legions, one Whose face was as the morning sun, Hanúmán's father good and great, Kesarí,656 wisest in debate.

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

And how long ago, Black clouds, rising out Of the distant West, Compassed thee about?

From Russian Lyrics by Bianchi, Martha Dickinson