Circumscribed as my life was in so many ways, I had to look between the covers of books for news of the world that lay outside my own.
You know a student's life is of necessity somewhat circumscribed and narrow and crowds out almost everything that is not in books....
The determination of the side of a regular heptagon which can be inscribed or circumscribed to a given circle was reduced to a more complicated equation which was first successfully resolved by Abul Gud.
A fine though circumscribed group of buildings is that in the heart of the City which includes the Bank of England, the Royal Exchange and the Mansion House.
The red, or Virginia, deer and the grey fox are still found in circumscribed localities; and of the smaller mammals, the squirrel, chipmunk, rabbit, raccoon and opossum are still numerous.
