The stillness that followed was of devastation beyond the compassing of words.

"The compassing of God and His right hand be upon you, my prince," he murmured, touching his hands lightly to Javan's bowed head.

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, cañons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.

He read about the roaring of the sea and the compassing of the waters, the spreading of the heavens and the storming of winds, about the depths of misery and the jaws of death.