| 1. | Hopeless to circumvent us joynd, where eac. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | I had to watch the steering, and circumvent those snags, and get the tin-pot along by hook or by crook. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 3. | which this ass now o'erreaches one that would circumvent God. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | But the watchful Nephele contrived to circumvent her cruel designs, and succeeded in getting the children out of the palace. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |