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• Thou art Lord Of an extended plain, where copious springs The lotus, herbage of all savours, wheat Pulse, and white barley of luxuriant growth But Ithaca no level champaign owns 730 A nursery of goats, and yet a land Fairer than even pastures to the eye No sea-encircled isle of ours affords Smooth course commodious and expanse of meads But my own Ithaca transcends them all He said; the Hero Menelaus smiled And stroaking tenderly his cheek, replied Dear youth! —  The Odyssey of Homer
• He then offered his arm to a young lady; other gentlemen were busied with other fair ones; every one found some one to whom he attached himself, and they walked towards the rose-encircled hill I lingered idly behind, for not a soul deemed me worthy of notice. —  Peter Schlemihl
• The latter was small, thin, and very young, with hollow, black-encircled eyes which betokened the depth and violence of his feelings, and a decisive way of speaking as if there could be no appeal from his opinion. —  The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories
• In a short time the outer part of the reef was passed, and the breeze freshening we were gliding swiftly over the moonlit sea CHAPTER FOUR When morning broke, the reef-encircled islands could be indistinctly seen over the port-quarter rising out of the sparkling ocean. —  The Cruise of the Dainty Rovings in the Pacific
• But the hope was vain, for the wood was completely encircled-- the task occupying the entire day--without the discovery of the faintest trace or sign of the passage of the missing party, which was not at all surprising, for when the far side of the wood was reached the soil proved to be of so stony a character, thickly interspersed with great outcrops of rock, that even the most skilled and keen-eyed of trackers might have been excused for failing in the search for footprints on so unyielding a surface. —  Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru

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