engirdle

Example Sentences

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A considerable portion of the abbey buildings that engirdle the summit of the rocky islet of Mont St. Michel belong to the Norman period, although much of the work is Gothic.

From France by Home, Gordon Cochrane

Fair waist that curves beneath the heart I love, I shall engirdle you with priceless gems Won by my prowess for your perfect grace.

From Under King Constantine by Trask, Katrina

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 Thompson, Francis

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

From The Death of Balder by Borrow, George Henry

The cirri of one set, the anterior, extend forward about twice the length of the anterior half; those of the posterior set closely engirdle the lower half, reaching not quite to the posterior extremity.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)