Immediately Surrounding

Famous quotes containing the words immediately and/or surrounding:

“It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.”
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)

“The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)