But I say, that he had gone so long by land and by sea, that he had environed all the earth; that he was come again environing, that is to say, going about, unto his own marches, and if he would have passed further, till he had found his country and his own knowledge. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But for healthy functioning it is necessary that the environing membrane of the cell be neither too thick, nor too loose. ❋ William Harryman (2009)
As Pen-zephyr and all its environing scenes disappeared behind ❋ Unknown (2006)
The furrows of these environing attempts show themselves distinctly, bending to the incline as they trench upon it; mounting in steeper curves, till the steepness baffles them, and their parallel threads show like the striae of waves pausing on the curl. ❋ Unknown (2006)
After the firing had continued for some brief time in front, it opened from both sides of the environing wood on our advancing column. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Intellectuals turned furiously against their environing societies. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Toward nightfall…we steamed into the great artificial harbor of this noble city of Marseilles, and saw the dying sunlight gild its clustering spires and ramparts, and flood its leagues of environing verdure with a mellow radiance that touched with an added charm the white villas that flecked the landscape far and near. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)
And when men go beyond those journeys toward Ind and to the foreign isles, all is environing the roundness of the earth and of the sea under our countries on this half. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And the seven climates stretch them environing the world. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The floor is not only gravel, and the lions are not only more like sheep, but the environing architecture and decoration are of a faded prettiness which cannot bear comparison with the fresh rougeing, equally Moorish, of the Alcazar at Seville. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The beach is formed of pure white broken coral; the sea is blue with the calm, pure blue of turquoise, but crystalline in its purity, and breaks for ever over the environing coral reef with a low deep music. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
And the traveller Leopold went into the castle for to rest him for a space being sore of limb after many marches environing in divers lands and sometime venery. ❋ Unknown (2003)
From the environing mountains numerous torrents came plunging and seething down, and the eye could take them in by hundreds. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In spite of all he could do, the doctor bore directly to the northeast, toward Mount Mendif, which was lost in the midst of environing clouds. ❋ Unknown (2003)
When abreast of us the range becomes a tall, fissured, and perpendicular wall: this apical comb, bluff to the west, reposes upon a base sloping, at the angle of rest, to the environing sandy Wady. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The real cause of long life in any animal is its being tempered in a manner resembling the environing air, along with certain other circumstances of its nature, of which we will speak later; but the cause of the time of gestation is the size of the offspring. ❋ Unknown (2002)
For this reason the Scythians on the Black Sea and the Thracians are straight-haired, for both they themselves and the environing air are moist, whereas the Aethiopians and men in hot countries are curly-haired, for their brains and the surrounding air are dry. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Whenever, then, the hair in man has naturally little heat and too much moisture enters it, its own proper heat is unable to concoct the moisture and so it is decayed by the heat in the environing air. ❋ Unknown (2002)
For just as human creations are the products of art, so living objects are manifest in the products of an analogous cause or principle, not external but internal, derived like the hot and the cold from the environing universe. ❋ Unknown (2002)
