The first time I looked through its magic lens, the clouds that surrounded my daily life rolled away.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

Early the next morning, Lee tried to break through the ring of Union soldiers that surrounded his army.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded on all sides by the great forest.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

I did not understand how a person surrounded by the joy of music could not have some of its sense and beauty inside her.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

Visitors pay twenty-five dollars each to walk beyond the canyon walls, surrounded by the canyon, while standing at the edge of the glass bridge.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

Because of the risk of flooding, the city is surrounded by protective levees and floodwalls.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

The light house was on a small rocky island surrounded by deep water.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

The Cadburys made chocolates. They also built a factory surrounded by a town.

VOA: special.2010.12.05

After one gathering, several men surrounded her and talked for a long time.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

In the early nineteen hundreds, a story about attacks on white settlers moving into Indian territory explained, "The Sioux had the wagon-train surrounded and the soldiers buffaloed."

VOA: special.2009.02.15

Grant surrounded the fort and let the navy gunboats shell it.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

It will permit the band to perform surrounded by the audience.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

Biltmore is surrounded by more than one-thousand eight-hundred hectares of forest.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

Romeo and Juliet are surrounded by violent fighting and generational conflict.

VOA: special.2010.01.06