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But, nerved as he was by desperation, he found the task greater than he could compass.

The rock is very magnetic, and the compass is quite useless.

I was tired of trying to steer a course for myself, with no compass to go by.

This fact is sustained by evidences teeming upon us from every point of the compass.

We were without a compass, and steered by the direction of the wind and sea.

And what the word means, in its full horror, only a child can compass.

Thus the Barnacles were all over the world, in every direction—despatch-boxing the compass.

I knew it was something connected with a point of the compass and a door.

Once or twice he consulted Uncle Ben, and as often glanced at his compass.

Can he compass his spirit with meekness, and strangle a natural oath?