Adjective : circumambient gloom. From Dictionary.com.
And soon were lost in circumambient foam. From Wordnik.com. [Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol] Reference
| Page 63: circumambiant amended to circumambient |. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Figure it was of, and how it was limited by the circumambient. From Wordnik.com. [The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan] Reference
Coitani, as a name in harmony with the “circumambient woods,” Coed being still Welsh for wood. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
I do, well; its market gardens, its circumambient lanes, its old, antiquarian stone houses, and all!. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
We are now beginning to understand the consequences of this new circumambient digital “reality.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny of E-mail] Reference
The organ came to an abrupt end in the middle of a bar, and vanished in the circumambient silence of space. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference
Look, they rush together, and Master Wamba is waving an immense banner over them, and knocks down a circumambient. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
As a check, I took seven hundred twenty nine samples of the circumambient space, statistically at random, for analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Lens]
That must be a pernicious agitation of the circumambient atmosphere, which conduces not to the benefit of any individual. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870] Reference
Let her go amongst a community of women and in one instant the instinct, the atmosphere circumambient, will tell her story. From Wordnik.com. [Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887] Reference
Great Regulars: The poem's argument was as hard to remember as its language; it dissolved at once into the circumambient solemnity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
Philosophy, on the contrary, tends to think of the transfer from circumambient cultural context to cultural artifact as a big mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community] Reference
The violent stroke comes quick to the ear; then the circumambient air receiving a slower, it affects and carries the sense along with it. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
'Alligonians, in the circumambient fog, echoed the sentiment by a silence, that, under other circumstances, would have been disheartening. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
'Apologize!' he moaned, addressing circumambient space. From Wordnik.com. [A Prefect's Uncle] Reference
More circumambient than the winds, she surrounds the world. From Wordnik.com. [Tentation de saint Antoine. English] Reference
It was a concession to the circumambient enemy, of whom even. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
London was so certain it was the center of circumambient space. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys to Bagdad] Reference
Then a clear voice came apparently out of the circumambient air. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference
Then a clear voice came apparently out of the circumambient air. From Wordnik.com. [Condensed Novels] Reference
God's air, the Allfather's air, scintillant circumambient cessile air. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
A roar of condemnatory thought brought all circumambient ether to a boil. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of Space] Reference
With the complete obliteration of all circumambient space, the wind fell. From Wordnik.com. [The Crusade of the Excelsior] Reference
Damme, I've been breathing nothing but circumambient Kent for the last half-hour -- Ale. From Wordnik.com. [Peregrine's Progress] Reference
They are never broken, and apparently they are lines of stress in the circumambient ether. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Electricity] Reference
"No need, Miss Manning," said a calm voice which seemed to come from the circumambient air. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley] Reference
I thought that each creed was obscured and misrepresented by a dominant circumambient "Popery" and. From Wordnik.com. [Apologia Pro Vita Sua] Reference
Carlo, and depend on the circumambient air, which, if not designedly treacherous, is communicative. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
My sense of identity was no longer narrowly confined to a body, but embraced the circumambient atoms. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference
A line must come right; you can force that into its place, but you can't compel the circumambient air. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
"He knows it," shouted Aristide with a delighted gesture which nearly cast Jean to the circumambient geese. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference
Captain Ellis looked upon himself as a sort of divine (pagan) emanation, the deputy-Neptune for the circumambient seas. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Line; a confession] Reference
Intentions have lungs, Carlo, and depend on the circumambient air, which, if not designedly treacherous, is communicative. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
His handsome bearded face, with its lustrous, laughing eyes, peeped out curiously human amid the circumambient shagginess. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference
Among the inward confusion of tongues, my ear gradually accustomed itself to the circumambient Bengali syllables of my people. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference
I am not so young as Carlotta, and I awakened to the fact of a circumambient universe so many years ago that I have grown slumberous. From Wordnik.com. [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference
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