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If you choose, plant the foot of the ladder in a fiery test and engirdle each round with a forest of thorns.

From The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Robert E. Bell

The seas which engirdle this island," the Ambassador said thoughtfully, "have brought the English great weal, as they may bring to her much woe.

From The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The columns of the palace reach up to heaven, but no walls engirdle them, only curtains green, white, and blue,—whilst the warm sweet breeze blows always thither from green prairies.”

From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

Whom seekest thou, where unclomb rocks engirdle Peace, smiling peace? 

From The Death of Balder by George Henry Borrow

How should I so, That cannot with these arms of mine engirdle All which I am; that am a foreigner In mine own region?

From New Poems by Francis Thompson

On Sundays and festivals we went to Mass together, and spent our leisure in excursions in the fields and pleasant groves with which Lucca is engirdled.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett

The ships of iron that kept the Confederate States engirdled and forbade outside meddling with domestic troubles.

From Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way by William Pittenger

The camps, redoubts, and trenches, which engirdled Boston during its siege, were so many appliances in the practical training-school of war, which Washington promptly seized, appropriated, and developed.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 by Various

Harald firm-oathed! oft hast thou the earth engirdled with thy ships; Svein, too, through the sound sailed the King to meet.

From The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) by Ethel Harriet Hearn

The Lake country is now both engirdled and intersected with railways.

From Wordsworth by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers

I have but to close my eyes, and my memory paints it for me in my brain, with its innumerable islets engirdling it, as if to ward off its busy, indefatigable enemy, the sea.

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Hesba Stretton

It is a large and deep stone basin, half full of warm water, in which small fishes, snakes and tortoises disport themselves; the massive engirdling walls demonstrate its Roman origin.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas

He nodded towards the building, which seemed to be still holding the sunlight of the day, so golden-white it shone under the evening sky, and against the engirdling forest.

From Eleanor by Mrs. Humphry Ward

There are here perhaps grander and more significant facts than the bellowing of the wounded Ares, or the charming island of Calypso, or the ocean-stream engirdling the earth.

From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach

A mirage-like shimmer arose from the veldt, and the sunlight slanted upon the facets of near rock-walls engirdling turret-shaped cone, or flat-topped mount, as though sweeping over patches of gems.

From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Bertram Mitford