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She cites, as witness to her word, The frowning Adriatic strand; The Cyclades which rocks engird, And noted Rhodus’ distant land; Propontis and unkindly Thrace, And Savage Pontus’ billowy race.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

The floors of the gallery which engird the rotunda, and the winding stairs leading to them, are of iron.

From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Norman, B. M.

"Does not the chace," he would say, "now afford us equal pleasure? are not my dogs as swift, and these mountains as replete with game as those which engird my paternal residence."

From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by West, Jane

I sought Rebellion, and found grim Authority engirded there; I mustered in the ranks of Royal Authority, and found there only Chaos fighting in straighter lines.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

I propose," said he, "that the members of the Commune, engirded with their scarfs, shall make a review of all the battalions that can be assembled on the Boulevard Voltaire.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

She met him at the point where the last tree of the engirding avenue flanked the last house in the street.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

The wreath that surrounded the child was not circular but oblong, almost as though engirding a tiny grave, but this Mehetabel did not see.

From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

All 403the while the physician is silent concerning the glove-fitting, steel-clasped corset, the heavy, dragging skirts, the bands engirding the body, the pinching, deforming boot, and the ruinous social dissipation of fashionable society.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

By a mile of engirding sea the prospect of escape looked so vain that one joined assent with a fleer.

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence

About two-thirds of the city are immediately engirt with noble and richly verdured hills.

From The Whole Armour of God by Jowett, John Henry

We are here living unconsciously engirt by another universe than the senses can apprehend, thinly veiled, but real, and waiting for us with hospitable invitation.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

In a clearing engirt by pines he stopped abruptly—stopped just in time.

From Frank of Freedom Hill by Derieux, Samuel A. (Samuel Arthur)

But the boy was no longer swathed and bandaged, although, for security, his plump little body was engirt by the same sash that encircled his father's own waist.

From Stories in Light and Shadow by Harte, Bret

The rampart rocks that engirt the valley were yellow rims below; and across the tops of the far mesas could be seen scrub forests and snowy peaks.

From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)