begird
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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 Owen, Wilfred
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 Jordan, Elizabeth Garver
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
Queen yet saw I never begirt with such a band, Each marching as to battle with naked sword in hand.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Day after day the couple spun a length of yarn, with which the whole town of Bremen, with its walls and trenches, and all its suburbs, might have been begirt.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas
Men of no compassion, unreached by ordinary sympathies, they felt the furtive skulking back, step by step, along ways commonplace enough in the daytime, but begirt with terrors now and full of demoniac suggestion.
From Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories by Green, Anna Katharine
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 Lever, Charles James
