“Even,” proceeds Sir Leicester, glancing at the circumjacent cousins on sofas and ottomans, “even in many — in fact, in most — of those places in which the government has carried it against a faction —” ❋ Unknown (2007)
Ah! there is good blood in that old city, and in the whole circumjacent region of which it is the capital. ❋ Unknown (2004)
As soon as I had alighted at an inn and had drunk my tea, I went out immediately to see the town and the circumjacent country. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The reciprocity treaty, very lucidly advocated by Mr. Carter, and which means the cession of a lagoon with a portion of circumjacent territory on this island, to the United States, for a ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
The appearance of the circumjacent country had been preparing me for the change of scene which was to greet me when I reached the coast. ❋ Unknown (2003)
This point beats and moves as though endowed with life, and from it two vein-ducts with blood in them trend in a convoluted course (as the egg substance goes on growing, towards each of the two circumjacent integuments); and a membrane carrying bloody fibres now envelops the yolk, leading off from the vein-ducts. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Of the two ducts that lead from the heart, the one proceeds towards the circumjacent integument, and the other, like a navel-string, towards the yolk. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Miles knew nothing of such periods and processes, but he felt an incomprehensible tidal pull towards the circumjacent splendours. ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)
My best resource would be in the circumjacent history of the times, and perhaps in some digressions artfully introduced, like the fortunes of the Peripatetic philosophy in the portrait of Lord Bacon. ❋ Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 (1994)
The word the region round about, is used by the Jerusalem Gemara: "From Beth-horon to the sea is one region round about," or, one circumjacent region. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)
From Beth-horon to the sea is one circumjacent region. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)
The Banias or grain-sellers in an Indian army have always their servants ahead of the troops on the line of march, to purchase in the circumjacent country whatever necessaries are to be disposed of. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)
All the circumjacent hills on the margin of the beach are tufted with little forts, and barbett batteries, forming an Esplanade round the bay, affords a most agreeable landscape. ❋ Edward Edwards (N/A)
All the rest, their most resolute champions being wounded or slain, were at the returning light driven back to their fort; where they were at length forced to surrender; as did the places circumjacent of their own accord. ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)
They likewise urged "the letters of our Generals; their mutual leagues with us during the war of Macedon; their plenty of rivers, temperate climate, and the fertility of the circumjacent country." ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)
When I had recover'd from the Fright, which the Rapidity of our Descent had put me into, I view'd the circumjacent Country with equal Wonder and ❋ Captain Samuel Brunt (N/A)
Governor-General, our illustrious master, who sent us to make this discovery; the islands circumjacent so far as known to us, we have named after the Hon. ❋ Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne (N/A)
Auxiliaries had previously been formed in the circumjacent country, acknowledging one or the other of these Committees as their head, and sending their contributions and supplies to it. ❋ Mary C. Vaughan (N/A)
Connecticut, the Pittsburg Relief Committee, drawing its supplies from the circumjacent country, and we believe, also, the Penn Relief Society, an organization among the Friends of Philadelphia and vicinity. ❋ Mary C. Vaughan (N/A)
Captain Smyth adds: — “I could not learn why there were no carabineers in attendance on this anniversary; but the consequence was a numerous concourse of banditti from the circumjacent fastnesses, notwithstanding the presence of a great many ‘barancelli,’ [45] who, it is known, will not arrest a man that is only an assassin.” ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
