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

From The Death of Balder by George Henry Borrow

Why engirdle its waist in warmth and cordage, and expose its feet to every storm and frost, to mud and snow?

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by George Sumner Weaver

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

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

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

We moved our hands, for example, when we were dwellers on the earth, and in so doing we gave vibration to the atmosphere which engirdled it.

From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan Poe

In a moment the heat became unbearable, engirdled, as we were, within a ring of flame; and the dense, choking volumes of smoke swept in upon us, blinding us completely.

From The White Shield by Bertram Mitford

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

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

The largest of these, Innisfallen, almost midway between the eastern and western shores, is some thirty acres in extent, and is engirdled by leafy bowers of green trees.

From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Robert Lloyd Praeger

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

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

By it countries are bound together "in its globe engirdling web; so that when a modern economist concerns himself with the interdependence of nations he naturally looks to cotton for his most effective illustration."

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various

During those golden summer mornings in which he wandered in the more or less vernal meadows engirdling the city, latent, unsuspected forces began to awake.

From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith

At 7 o'clock a curious silence fell suddenly on the battered city and the engirdling trenches.

From Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes by W. H. (William Henry) Fitchett

In a vast, irregular circle, a wheel of life with the fort as its hub, spread an engirdling encampment.

From The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner