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• They fetched a compass of seven days' journey.
• Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse were digged up coals and incinerated substances, [...]
• The Bavarian felt a mad wave of desire for her sweep over him. What scheme wouldn't he compass to mould that girl to his wishes.
• But it went beyond it by the loose construction of compassing to depose the King, [...]
• That he plotted and compassed to raise Sedition and Rebellion [...]
• The immediate problem is how to compass that end: by the seizure of territory or by the cultivation of the goodwill of the people whose business she seeks.
• [...] and was an artful flatterer, when that was necessary to compass his end, in which generally he was successful.
• [...] to settle the end of our action or disputation; and then to take fit and effectual means to compass that end.
• [...] they never find ways sufficient to compass that end.
• Of a glad father compass thee about!
• Now all the blessings
• This day I breathed first; time is come round, / And where I did begin, there shall I end; / My life is run his compass.
• He that first discovered the use of the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses.
• How very commonly we hear it remarked that such and such thoughts are beyond the compass of words! I do not believe that any thought, properly so called, is out of the reach of language.
• There is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subject, and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding.
• the compass of his argument
• In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed.
• within the compass of an encircling wall
• Clara thought she had never seen him look so small and mean. He was as if trying to get himself into the smallest possible compass.
• Their wisdom [...] lies in a very narrow compass.
• In going up the Missisippi [sic], we meet with nothing remarkable before we come to the Detour aux Anglois, the English Reach: in that part the river takes a large compass.
• You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.
• to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please