begird
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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
I know why the elephant by a thick skin And a tough one is ever begirt: It is so when he's struck by the trainer's crowbar, He can laugh in his trunk all unhurt.
From Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 by Various
The crags were begirt with icicles, reaching down many feet and brilliant with elusive prismatic glimmers.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
In America I fancied I might accomplish something; over seas, I hoped to become useful and essential: if any task was not begirt with a thousand dangers, I considered it trivial, unworthy of me.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On earth, “a tawny sibyl,” with “an old striped curtain—” And tatter’d tapestry o’er her shoulders hung— Her loins with patchwork cincture were begirt, That more than spoke diversity of dirt.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
He still saw the coat falling down from her shoulders; saw that noble form, begirt with radiance, stand beside him; and his soul hied over rocks and forests on the footsteps of his vanished benefactress.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
