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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

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 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

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 Katrina Trask

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

From The Death of Balder by George Henry Borrow

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

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe

Still higher, on their left, the elevation called Bulbarrow, or Bealbarrow, well-nigh the highest in South Wessex, swelled into the sky, engirdled by its earthen trenches.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Though engirdled now By heavenly hosts of saints and seraphim, I cannot fancy it.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Emma Lazarus

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

The city of Leipsic, engirdled by numerous villages, lies in a low plain watered by the Parthe, Pleisse, and Elster, the last of which to the westward has several arms, with swampy banks.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane

Puck alone could quite have reached her standard with his engirdling of the earth in forty minutes.

From Elsie Inglis The Woman with the Torch by Lena Ashwell

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 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 must be a separation of rings all lying in one plane, a generation of planets and satellites all rotating alike, a central sun and engirdling globes.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper

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