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Definition of the day : « compass »

  • noun boundary, periphery
  • verb enclose
  • verb achieve, get
Example sentences :
  • But, nerved as he was by desperation, he found the task greater than he could compass.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • The rock is very magnetic, and the compass is quite useless.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • I was tired of trying to steer a course for myself, with no compass to go by.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • This fact is sustained by evidences teeming upon us from every point of the compass.
  • Extract from : « Ridgeway » by Scian Dubh
  • We were without a compass, and steered by the direction of the wind and sea.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • And what the word means, in its full horror, only a child can compass.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • Thus the Barnacles were all over the world, in every direction—despatch-boxing the compass.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • I knew it was something connected with a point of the compass and a door.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • Once or twice he consulted Uncle Ben, and as often glanced at his compass.
  • Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • Can he compass his spirit with meekness, and strangle a natural oath?
  • Extract from : « Farm Ballads » by Will Carleton