contornare
= verbo trans. cingere, spec. a fini ornamentali <
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Quando l'infelice ortolano si sentì predicare dal signor don Franco che il giardinetto era una porcheria, che bisognava cavar tutto, buttar via tutto, rimase sbalordito, avvilito da far pietà; ma poi lavorando agli ordini suoi per riformare le aiuole, per contornarle di tufi, per piantare arbusti e fiori, vedendo come il padrone stesso sapesse lavorar di sua mano e quanti terribili nomi latini e qual portentoso talento avesse in testa per immaginare disposizioni nuove e belle, concepì poco a poco per lui un'ammirazione quasi paurosa e quindi anche, malgrado i molti rabbuffi, una affezione devota. (Fogazzaro - Piccolo mondo antico)
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marginatore
= nelle macchine per scrivere tradizionali, ciascuno dei due dispositivi scorrevoli che servono a fissare i margini laterali del testo - nella composizione a piombo, la squadra usata per marginare la pagina 3 nella preparazione di ingrandimenti fotografici, apparecchio utilizzato per tenere disteso il foglio di carta sensibile e contornarlo di un margine bianco. <>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on hisfirst entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the mindsof the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful propertyof some one or other of their daughters.<>
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Shewrote cheerfully, seemed surrounded with comforts, and mentioned nothingwhich she could not praise.<>
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James's Sir William was so completelyawed by the grandeur surrounding him, that he had but just courageenough to make a very low bow, and take his seat without saying a word;and his daughter, frightened almost out of her senses, sat on the edgeof her chair, not knowing which way to look.<>
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What a study for an artist did that exciting scene present!The eloquent Pickwick, with one hand gracefully concealed behindhis coat tails, and the other waving in air to assist his glowingdeclamation; his elevated position revealing those tights and gaiters,which, had they clothed an ordinary man, might have passed withoutobservation, but which, when Pickwick clothed them--if we may use theexpression--inspired involuntary awe and respect; surrounded by the menwho had volunteered to share the perils of his travels, and who weredestined to participate in the glories of his discoveries.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) As wellmight I be content to gaze on Goswell Street for ever, without oneeffort to penetrate to the hidden countries which on every side surroundit.<>
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AN OLD-FASHIONED CARD-PARTY--THE CLERGYMAN'S VERSES--THESTORY OF THE CONVICT'S RETURNSeveral guests who were assembled in the old parlour rose to greet Mr.Pickwick and his friends upon their entrance; and during the performanceof the ceremony of introduction, with all due formalities, Mr. Pickwickhad leisure to observe the appearance, and speculate upon the charactersand pursuits, of the persons by whom he was surrounded--a habit in whichhe, in common with many other great men, delighted to indulge.<>
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And the benevolentclergyman looked pleasantly on; for the happy faces which surrounded thetable made the good old man feel happy too; and though the merriment wasrather boisterous, still it came from the heart and not from the lips;and this is the right sort of merriment, after all.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) As their walk, which was not above two miles long, lay through shadylanes and sequestered footpaths, and as their conversation turned uponthe delightful scenery by which they were on every side surrounded, Mr.Pickwick was almost inclined to regret the expedition they had used,when he found himself in the main street of the town of Muggleton.<>
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) Gentlemen, I beg to surround witha rich halo of enthusiastic cheering the united names of "Dumkins andPodder.<>
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If he would light upon any of these old places, he must directhis steps to the obscurer quarters of the town, and there in somesecluded nooks he will find several, still standing with a kind ofgloomy sturdiness, amidst the modern innovations which surround them.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The Pickwickians had no sooner dismounted than they were surrounded bya branch mob of the honest and independent, who forthwith set up threedeafening cheers, which being responded to by the main body (for it'snot at all necessary for a crowd to know what they are cheering about),swelled into a tremendous roar of triumph, which stopped even thered-faced man in the balcony.<>
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He then felt himself forced up some wooden steps by thepersons from behind; and on removing his hat, found himself surroundedby his friends, in the very front of the left hand side of the hustings.<>
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A faint cry died awayupon its surface; the last powerful struggle of the dying man agitatedthe rippling waves for a few seconds; and the spot where he had gonedown into his early grave, was undistinguishable from the surroundingwater.<>
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By the time they alighted there, it wasquite dark; and, proceeding by the dead wall in front of the VeterinaryHospital, they entered a small by-street, which is, or was at that time,called Little College Street, and which, whatever it may be now, wasin those days a desolate place enough, surrounded by little else thanfields and ditches.<>
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Magnus the lady into whose room he had sounwarrantably intruded on the previous night; and the spectacles had nosooner crossed Mr. Pickwick's nose, than the lady at once identifiedthe countenance which she had seen surrounded by all the horrors of anightcap.<>
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The specials surrounded the body of the vehicle; Mr. Grummer and Mr.Dubbley marched triumphantly in front; Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Winklewalked arm-in-arm behind; and the unsoaped of Ipswich brought up therear.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Weller, habited in his morning jacket, with the black calicosleeves, was returning in a rather desponding state from an unsuccessfulsurvey of the mysterious house with the green gate, when, raising hiseyes, he beheld a crowd pouring down the street, surrounding an objectwhich had very much the appearance of a sedan-chair.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Now, the screaming had subsided, and faces were in a glow, and curlsin a tangle, and Mr. Pickwick, after kissing the old lady as beforementioned, was standing under the mistletoe, looking with a very pleasedcountenance on all that was passing around him, when the young lady withthe black eyes, after a little whispering with the other young ladies,made a sudden dart forward, and, putting her arm round Mr. Pickwick'sneck, saluted him affectionately on the left cheek; and before Mr.Pickwick distinctly knew what was the matter, he was surrounded by thewhole body, and kissed by every one of them.<>
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It by no meansfollows that because a man is a sexton, and constantly surrounded bythe emblems of mortality, therefore he should be a morose and melancholyman; your undertakers are the merriest fellows in the world; and I oncehad the honour of being on intimate terms with a mute, who in privatelife, and off duty, was as comical and jocose a little fellow as everchirped out a devil-may-care song, without a hitch in his memory,or drained off a good stiff glass without stopping for breath.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'When Gabriel Grub had had time to fetch his breath, which the rapidityof his descent had for the moment taken away, he found himself in whatappeared to be a large cavern, surrounded on all sides by crowds ofgoblins, ugly and grim; in the centre of the room, on an elevated seat,was stationed his friend of the churchyard; and close behind him stoodGabriel Grub himself, without power of motion.<>
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It was very pretty to look at, but seemed to have theeffect of rendering surrounding objects rather darker than before.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'And being surrounded by a great number of nieces and nevys, as wasalways quarrelling and fighting among themselves for the property, hemakes me his executor, and leaves the rest to me in trust, to divide itamong 'em as the will prowided.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) In the open space surrounded by the cloisters, there ran, like a circlein a square, a circular path paved with pale stones and edged with somesort of green enamel like an imitation lawn.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) The others obeyed, some racing down the corridor and some leaping overthe low wall, with the result that a little crowd, consisting ofHardcastle, Lord Mounteagle, Father Brown, and even the undetachable Mr.Phroso of the bumps, had soon surrounded the captive Master of theMountain, whom Hunter was hanging on to desperately by the collar withone hand, and shaking every now and then in a manner highly insensibleto the dignity of Prophets as a class.<>
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