Examples from literature

• The town, and its green environs, shortly receded, the distant hills faded in the horizon, and the emerald isles lay, like specks, on the bosom of the ocean. 
• The young rogue was taking a walk, exploring the environs, his fair scanty locks blowing in the breeze, his eyes blinking as they beheld the immensity of Paris. 
• There were now and then most gleeful excursions in the environs of Paris, when she and Hugh found in earth and air a world of delights more than they could tell anybody but each other. 
• This extends for some three or four miles, and is skirted by charming villages, which render the environs of Bristol so far-famed for beauty. 
• We reached the environs of Cincinnati about ten o'clock at night, and were not clear of them until after daybreak.