What is "encircling"

Usage examples of "encircling".

She was indeed none other than Madame Angelin, coming quickly from the Rue de Lille, on her way to the homes of her poor, with the little chain of her little bag encircling her wrist.

The rest of the Bedu remained encircling them, watching and listening just as avidly.

It must be a circumradiation--produced from the Supreme but from the Supreme unaltering--and may be compared to the brilliant light encircling the sun and ceaselessly generated from that unchanging substance.

He moved from chair to chair, leaving about each one an encircling ring of cigaret ashes, and carefully inspecting each new vase of flowers.

There will be literally hundreds of moving courseways crisscrossing and encircling the lobby, each of them ending at a designated elevator.

Now we have three great canals encircling each other, and several other canals cutting across them, so that even in the dryest season a Derku man can glide on his dragonboat like a crocodile from any part of our land to any other, and never have to drag it across dry earth.

Miraculously the fires had missed two or three Inns but around them was stark emptiness, ash and embers, up to the charred encircling fence and the moat beyond.

In a single mighty bound, he leaped clear over the encircling Gora and dashed for the indicated building.

Shamesey riders, camp-boss Lyle Wesson among them, hearing the disturbance among the horses, deserted their tables in the Gate Tavern and gathered on the encircling porch.

They deposited him in the mud next to Longnose, then took up encircling positions and stood there clacking their huge mandibles.

About midline, her mother yanked Kyle into the Conga line, her well-manicured hands encircling his flat stomach.

Then they climbed, appreciating how well the tubular creature was designed, with riblike bones, easy stairs, encircling it.

There were pies and puddings, flans and flummeries, saffron seedcakes, cloudy white bread and soft yellow butter, raspberries, pears, strawberries and honeyed figs, creamy curd, truffles, and crystal goblets encircling dark wine.

The other boy followed with a dreamy look of contentment as he gazed on the fresh green lawns, the narcissus and snowbells dancing under the bare branches of the trees, and the encircling ring of cloud-capped mountains.

Here was another flight of stairs even wider, but without the guardian figures, and it led up and out into such a stretch of parkland that no one born in the swamps encircling Ruwenda might have imagined.