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Neither the nurse who comes at dawn to visit her nursling E'er shall avail her neck to begird with yesterday's ribband.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Till like a cold gust thrilled the little word At which each body and its soul begird And tighten them for battle.

From Poems by Wilfred Owen

In the mean time the eyes of her sister Grace Margaret had roamed disapprovingly over Genevieve Maud's white dress, the blue sash that begirded her middle, the rampant bow on her hair.

From Many Kingdoms by Elizabeth Garver Jordan

Well dost thou know how the town is begirt, and the wood at a distance, Down from the hills to be brought, and the people are humbled in terror.

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various

The rise of the Mohammadan power in Arabia, and the rapid spread of Islamism, first circumscribed the limits of the empire, and begirt it round with foes.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris

The misty blue outlines of the Rocky Mountains were only just visible; between them and myself I looked down on the most fertile valleys, which were begirt by lofty mountains.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various

The scene is at the foot of the Splugen Alps, in a little village begirt with mountains, every crag and eminence of which is surmounted by a ruined castle.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever

It is grievously begirt with thorns and stinging-nettles.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield