Citations:circumvallation


 * 1907 &mdash; To this end he throws up parallels and trenches of approach; works round and round his quarry with anxious circumspection; he draws up synopses and line of circumvallation; he disciplines himself in descriptions, characters and critiques; hesitates often; enters “subjects for composition” formally in a note-book. &mdash; Thomas Secombe, Introduction to William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Peru