begird

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There are, O, valiant youth! of those once chang'd, “Still in the new-form'd figures who remain: “Others there are whose power more wide extends “To many shapes to alter.—Proteus, thou “Art one; thou 'habitant of those wide waves “Which earth begird: now thou a youth appear'st; “And now a lion; then a furious boar; “A serpent next we tremble to approach; “And then with threatening horns thou seem'st a bull.

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I honestly believe that his performance would beat down the frigid steel ramparts that begird the English "lady."

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But there was one of them that could not do so, because Harold bore off that skin wherewith she was wont to begird herself, and when she found it not she wailed and wept and besought Harold to give her that skin again,—and, lo! it was Eleanor, the wife of Egbert!

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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.

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Next day Sabinus drew up his army in view of the enemy, on ground equal to both; to try, if elated with their success by night, they would venture a battle: and, when they still kept within the fortress, or on the cluster of hills, he began to begird them with a siege; and strengthening his old lines and adding new, enclosed a circuit of four miles.

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