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
Built in a little cleft of the Apennines, it is begirt with great mountains,—wild, barren, and desolate.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
“A youth, his new-form'd horns with reeds begirt, “Sudden appear'd, 'mid waist above the waves; “Who but in stature larger, and his skin “Of azure teint, might Acis well be deem'd.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
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
From where we stood we could ferret out a house with a veranda in front, built on a terrace and begirt with trees.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
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
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