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“Wild Swans” would seem to have laid bare every cruel irony of the volatile times it compassed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 14, 2026

The "great tracts of land" he imagines "compassed about with heavens fair" are not necessarily those of Eden.

From The Guardian Dec. 20, 2010

And as men's political horizons expand toward the world state, each man feels a stronger need to cherish some one region small enough to be compassed by one heart and mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manchu China en compassed all of Mongolia, Korea and Taiwan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bystander, while freely admitting that the Theistic theory is compassed with difficulties; and requires "re-statement," reminds us that the-"materialistic hypothesis is not free from difficulty."

From Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others by Allen Pringle




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