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in and around
2. In the immediate vicinity of; in a place or various places near to; in some part or various parts of. Often in in and around. Also in figurative contexts.Quot. 1657 may show sense B. 1.
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1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. I And shrill grashoppers chirped them around.
1657 E. Benlowes Sacred Friendship xviii. 1/2 Next, all the Rocks around the spatious Shore My Midas Soveraign Touch should turn to Ore.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 113. ⁋3 [She] bore the Whispers of all around the Court with such a pretty Uneasiness.
1763 London Evening-Post 6 Dec. All around here appears full of desolation and ruins.
1792 Let. 9 May in J. Priestley Appeal to Public on Riots Birmingham (1793) App. xviii. 193 We sat up all night,..and kept a strong guard both in and around the house.
1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) iii. 62 There is a chilling air around poverty, that often kills affection, that was not nurs'd in it.
1853 E. Ruskin Let. 30 Nov. in M. Lutyens Millais & Ruskins (1967) 113 Continual letter-writing and note-sending and card-leaving on every body in and around Edinburgh.
1897 C. M. Flandrau Harvard Episodes 172 It isn't given to many of us to have real, sure-enough feelings around here in college.
1939 ‘N. West’ Day of Locust xiv. 105 He wore a long-haired sweater, called a ‘gorilla’ in and around Los Angeles.
1963 B. Vesey-Fitzgerald Cat Owner's Encycl. 39 A neutered cat is much more likely to stay around the house.
1986 New Yorker 10 Feb. 39/2 The nurse was steely... ‘I'm not giving you any sleeping medication... I don't trust you around medication.’
2011 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 Nov. c2/2 The bonds are on sale in post offices around the country.
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