encircle
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To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.
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I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
The stars, like dust, encircle me In living mists of light; And all of space I seem to see In one vast burst of sight.