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 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
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
At first the mountain peaks appeared through the dense clouds; and then, by degrees, their steep sides, begirt with rock, and fissured with many a torrent.
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
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
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
