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• The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
• Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
• and this way they get rid of those grand and stubborn opinions that surround them.
• to surround the world
• He drifted through the room, avoiding the furniture by instinct, closed the door that led to the passage, and only then flicked on his flashlight.
• It swept around the room, picking out a desk, a telephone, a wall of bookshelves, and a deep armchair, and finally settled on a handsome fireplace with a large surround of red brick.
• The city is surrounded by a wall.
• We are surrounded by dangers in this jungle.
• The king surrounds himself with flatterers who will not tell him the truth.
• The enemy troops have surrounded us.
• The city is surrounded by gardens.
• The jewelry is surrounded in velvet.