Then the case itself was rolled into small compass.

It would be difficult to describe and develop the characters as I'd hope to do in a book of smaller compass.

She was a very important person in the small compass of their lives.

There was a small compass in his chest pack, and he retrieved it.

He took a small compass out of his pack.

Gems go into a small compass, and are easily carried.

He turned his attention to a small compass he held in one hand.

He was as if trying to get himself into the smallest possible compass.

We narrow it down to a very small compass.

In this cramped space it was necessary to ball one's body into the smallest possible compass.