Into the mystery which surrounds the possibility that such a belief should be cherished by any one in this condition, our Lord does not here enter.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
His white hair falls in rigid and scanty locks over a face more illumined and more weary than all that surrounds him in the attentive silence of the desolate forest.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
It is the expression of a tender and very simple religious feeling, saddened by the obscurity which surrounds its object, and still more by the impossibility of proving to other minds that this object is a real one.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr