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  • Taken to a limit, an all-surrounding display would seem - in a casual sense - more immersive whatever 'immersive' means.

    Size Zounts 2006

  • Taken to a limit, an all-surrounding display would seem - in a casual sense - more immersive whatever 'immersive' means.

    July 2006 2006

  • That light barely illuminated the pillars supporting an all-surrounding balustrade forty feet above.

    Doomstalker Cook, Glen 1985

  • The relation is quite characteristic of Schubart in its gruesomeness, its insistence upon all-surrounding death and dissolution; but it contains no suggestion of

    Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

  • We were suddenly shy of him, and it seemed enough to be near him, and to feel the all-surrounding power and protection of him.

    Explorers of the Dawn Mazo De la Roche 1920

  • The all-surrounding hills are not green, but black.

    Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Trumbull White 1904

  • In the dark, all-surrounding void new constellations gleam on the thrones of the heavens.

    The Masque of the Elements Herman George Scheffauer 1902

  • "I now understand Britt's words -- only the authority of the husband can save her from her all-surrounding foes," and at the moment his fist doubled with desire to claim and exercise that power.

    The Tyranny of the Dark Hamlin Garland 1900

  • It had been snowing all the afternoon, and the shrubbery hung heavy and silent with heaped, clinging, feathery snow, dazzling white by contrast with the dark sustaining branches, and the yellow lamps flamed warmly amid the all-surrounding steely blue and glistening white.

    A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West Hamlin Garland 1900

  • The clamour was all-surrounding, the flap of great wings a continuous beating, the whistle of air like that in a room with a myriad buzzing electric fans.

    Where the Trail Divides 1893

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