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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 Wilfred Owen

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

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

They were begirt upon all hands by cannibals; and the oven was ready to smoke for them abroad in the country of their foes, or at home in the valley of their fathers.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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 Anna Katharine Green

Even a victory would leave the invader begirt about with dangers and difficulty; a defeat would be his utter annihilation.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various

The small space between the two ponds was overshadowed by the most splendid magnolias, peca-nut trees, yuccas, evergreen oaks, &c., and begirt by a wall of cactuses, aloes, and other prickly plants.

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