engirdle

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

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 Gary N. (Gary Nathan) Calkins

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 Gordon Cochrane Home

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

Though cut off from the telegraph, it sent out pigeon-posts; though engirdled by Boers, it made sorties of the most animated description, and literally laughed at the hint of surrender.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Louis Creswicke

But he climbed boldly on board when beckoned to, and we loaded him with gifts of pretty beads, and engirdled his loins with red cloth, then sent him grinning away.

From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables

This is the more common form, although isolated mesas, bits of tableland completely engirdled by cliffs, are but little less common.

From The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff

That hunger for affection too long withheld was for the time displaced by an almost physical sense of an implacable past which still engirdled her.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

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

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

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

The lovely hills, the engirdling sea, the sweet glow of evening—she saw it all again.

From A Mere Accident by George (George Augustus) Moore

There was a halo about it, engirdling rich, flowing waves of reddish hair, the lights in which glowed like flame.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

The bivouac fires of the engirdling enemy glow all around except for a small segment to the west—the track of retreat, still kept open by BERTRAND, and already taken by the baggage-waggons.

From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy