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

FOmne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico Tangit, & admissus circum præcordia ludit, Callidus excusso Populum suspendere naso.

From A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Chorney, Alexander H.

Cumque novus fisso primum de germine ramus Findit humum, rursus ferro versanda bicorni Consita vere novo tellus, cultuque frequenti Exercenda, herbæ circum ne forte nocentes Proveniant, germenque ipsum radicibus urant.

From Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees by Nisbet, John

Parson Greiner however taught Jack: circa circum, round and about, not in the bread but close at hand.

From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Hausrath, Adolf