circum

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Whats interesting is that we had plenty of evidence in these same circum stances as to what would work and what would not.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2015

In its romantic purity, this is a love that is outside time and circum stance, beyond good and evil.

From Time Magazine Archive

Duke Guidobaldo had died at Fossombrone, repeating to his friends around his bed these lines of Virgil: Me circum limus niger et deformis arundo Cocyti tardaque palus inamabilis unda Alligat, et novies Styx interfusa coercet.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Concerning Hengestschoten is remarked: "Hengist, qui circum annum 450 Britanniam insulam cum suis Frisonibus et Saxonibus occupat."

From Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George

Quales Thre�ci� cum flumina Thermodontis Pulsant et pictis bellantur Amazones armis: Seu circum Hippolyten, seu cum se Martia curru Penthesilea refert: magnoque ululante tumultu Fœminea exsultant lunatis agmina peltis.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de