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
The river is characterized by a broad, deep, and quiet stream, begirt with a vegetation of exceeding luxuriance.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
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
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 Grove is the name given to the grassy field, begirt with trees, which is bordered by the ditch separating the College grounds from Midsummer Common.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
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
