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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

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

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

From The Death of Balder by George Henry Borrow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have but to close my eyes, and my memory paints it for me in my brain, with its innumerable islets engirdling it, as if to ward off its busy, indefatigable enemy, the sea.

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Hesba Stretton

It is a large and deep stone basin, half full of warm water, in which small fishes, snakes and tortoises disport themselves; the massive engirdling walls demonstrate its Roman origin.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas

It was a big comfortable place with engirdling balconies whence one looked upon the blossoming beauties of a May-time garden.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Geraldine Bonner

We ponder, question, doubt—and pray The Deep to answer Yea or Nay; And what does the engirdling wave, The undivulging, yield us, save Aspersion of bewildering spray?

From The Poems of William Watson by William Watson