Compassing

Irritated by this reply, and the contemptuous glance with which it was accompanied, the vindictive triumvirate turned from the king to his court; and having failed in compassing the destruction of Bruce and his more renowned friend, they determined at least to make a wreck of their moral fame. ❋ Unknown (1875)

William Grigg on August 1, 2009 04: 33 PM medieval English law, the crime of "high treason" included the offense of "compassing" (or imagining) "the death of our lord the king, of his lady our queen, or of their eldest son and heir." ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was out early and late, compassing prodigious climbs and tramps -- once reaching as far as the gold mines Tom had spoken of, and being away two days. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A compassing maturity is criteria for the job, a balanced and seasoned intellect and personality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

House I saw Abd al-Masih the monk also compassing the ❋ Unknown (2006)

And even before that, you know, it's interesting, he spoke a lot about how he played the role of the Joker in that film and how that role was so compassing to him. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Because the more epic and all-compassing the mistake, the more epic and all-encompassing come the rationalizations, the scapegoating and the compulsion for do-overs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

That's an inherent problem for a movement en-compassing disparate groups ranging from Zapatistas and Greens to social democrats. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I may have thought how serviceable his inheritance would be to us, and may have wished him dead; but I believe I had no thought of compassing his death. ❋ Unknown (2007)

How much of our blood was shed by warlike Scipio, when he was eagerly compassing the overthrow of ❋ Unknown (2007)

The one, in fact, is bent on compassing the work on which he started, he steps out gaily and unflinchingly; the other, more slack in spirit, stops to recruit himself and contemplate the view by fountain side and shady nook, as though his object were to court each gentle zephyr. ❋ Unknown (2007)

On the eve of the decisive Battle of Agincourt, he queasily negotiates a settlement with God — "Not today, O Lord,/O not today, think not upon the fault/My father made in compassing the crown" (4.1.274 – 276) — and evidently God is at least temporarily won over. ❋ Greenblatt, Stephen (2007)

But that the one thing needful for compassing this end was, that the people of England should second the effort of an insignificant corporation, the establishment of which, a few years before the epoch of the great plague and the great fire, had been as little noticed, as they were conspicuous. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast. ❋ Unknown (2006)

We do not easily give up the desire of our hearts, and what we imagine essential to our happiness, let the expectation or hope of compassing it be ever so unreasonable or absurd in the opinion of others. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Character compassing is the skill in determining which direction their soul is pointed. ❋ Guest Author (2005)

They that open towarde the Northe, builde them preaty Cabanes of the ribbes of whales (whiche in those seas they plentuously find) compassing them aboute by the sides, accordynge to their naturall bendinge, and fasteninge them together at bothe endes with some maner of tyenge. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But now Mr Maule began to think whether he might not possibly give the lie to these people who were compassing his death, by returning to the halls of his ancestors, if not in the bloom of youth, still in the pride of age. ❋ Unknown (2004)

[Compasser]: *GRIN* LOL! Dude 1: Watch out man, you spilled my drink! Compasser: [uh-huh], sorry... *GRIN* Dude 1: Can you believe that asshole? Dude 2: Yeah, what a dick. Dude 1: Total compassing [no-life]. ❋ Ihatepeopleonsmartphones (2013)

compassive is when you [think] about [nothing],but you get [ideas] =) ❋ Rubeeeennnnnn (2009)

All [wisdom] and compassion are eternaly [linked]. ❋ Nait (2006)

Guy1: That over-hyped celebrity tried to display compassion and gave 130k to the [Salvation Army]! Isn't she awesome??!! Guy2: ohmygod she gave [0.4]% of her massive fortune to an unbelievably inefficient [idiot's] charity? You're right! She IS amazing! She donated with a straight face! Dude1: I saw Tony helping unload the food truck down at the [food bank]. Dude2: Isn't Tony poor as hell, supporting his siblings on his 50 hour workweek, and trying to stay above water in college too? How does he find time to unload a food bank truck? Dude3: It was on a weekend, guess he got a Saturday off. Dude2: Damn I wish I was that cool, too bad it's so hard to be compassionate. ❋ Sibilus (2008)

Bob "Hey bro, I didnt get a [good hit], can you give me a compass?" Dave "Sure man, my [last hit] was Northwest." Bob "Thanks! [That was much] better." Dave "Don't thank me, thank whoever invented Compassing." ❋ Ethereal Magnanimus (2007)

all of [my friends] are [compassionate] ❋ Celine ;) (2004)

[That guy] [barely] has any [compassion]. ❋ Music2975 (2018)

I gave my love my brass [compass] and told her to watch [the needle] spin and that it'll ALWAYS point to what you want it to. It's [something weird] about love ❋ Stanlee315 (2012)

Raigen- "Yea, [ohh yea], [ride me]!!" Storm- "Im gunna compass!! OMGGGGGG!" Raigen- "Wow. [Get me a towel]. WTF." ❋ StreetBikeTakeover (2009)

Instead of yelling at the person that did you wrong, show that person [compassion] because [you don't know] what they are going through. You shouldn't be so quick to judge, you could change [the outcome] of someone's life in a positive way just by showing someone compassion. ❋ Bountyfiveo (2021)