He took the precaution of
surrounding the palace with a dense cloud, and then hastened to his Court, where his prolonged absence was causing much anxiety.
Nukuheva is the most important of these islands, being the only one at which ships are much in the habit of touching, and is celebrated as being the place where the adventurous Captain Porter refitted his ships during the late war between England and the United States, and whence he sallied out upon the large whaling fleet then sailing under the enemy's flag in the
surrounding seas.
Some he dispatched to various other parts of the grounds
surrounding the bungalow.
By this road I ascended to a considerable elevation, and obtained a good view of the
surrounding woods.
When, as was commonly the case, I had none to commune with, I used to raise the echoes by striking with a paddle on the side of my boat, filling the
surrounding woods with circling and dilating sound, stirring them up as the keeper of a menagerie his wild beasts, until I elicited a growl from every wooded vale and hillside.
Indeed to neglect
surrounding a city with a wall would be similar to choosing a country which is easy of access to an enemy, or levelling the eminences of it; or as if an individual should not have a wall to his house lest it should be thought that the owner of it was a coward: nor should this be left unconsidered, that those who have a city surrounded with walls may act both ways, either as if it had or as if it had not; but where it has not they cannot do this.
In the hollow breast of the mountains which they were now penetrating, the
surrounding heights were clothed with pine; while the declivities of the lower hills afforded abundance of bunch grass for the horses.
As soon as the precise spot is pitched upon, blankets, saddle-cloths, and other coverings are spread over the
surrounding grass and bushes, to prevent foot-tracks, or any other derangement; and as few hands as possible are employed.
And so the grand chariot came finally to the high wall
surrounding the City, and paused before the magnificent jewel-studded gates.
Such memorials of the passage and struggles of man are yet frequent throughout the broad barrier of wilderness which once separated the hostile provinces, and form a species of ruins that are intimately associated with the recollections of colonial history, and which are in appropriate keeping with the gloomy character of the
surrounding scenery.
That they must pay the price of one life for every attempt to take his had its effect upon them and they were longer now in initiating a new rush and when they did so it was more skillfully ordered than those that had preceded it, for they scattered into three bands which, partially
surrounding him, came simultaneously toward him from different directions, and though he emptied his pistol with good effect, they reached him at last.
In the first place, to blame because I am cleverer than any of the people
surrounding me.