engirdle

Example Sentences

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He flung the serpent into the ocean that engirdles the world.

From The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths by Pogany, Willy

That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

It is situated in the open—in the midst of an amphitheatre of forest which engirdles it on three sides, the further being bounded by a line of jagged rocks of no great height.

From Haviland's Chum by Mitford, Bertram

Evening was falling as we ran through the inhospitable region of sand and water and pine that engirdles Berlin.

From The Man with the Clubfoot by Williams, Valentine

Yea, and the century-crowned patriarch whose bounty engirdles the globe;— 7.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma