gifts

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Only my wife, Betty, and my three girts and a few close associates came with me to Kennedy International Airport.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

In the dread ocean, undulating wide, Beneath the radiant line that girts the globe, The circling Typhon, whirl'd from point to point, Exhausting all the rage of all the sky, And dire Ecnephia reign.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

Imperiously he leaps, he neighs, he bounds, And now his woven girts he breaks asunder, The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds, Whose hollow womb resounds like heaven’s thunder.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John

These abutments had curved wing walls and for molding these girts cut to the radii of the curves were fastened to the studs and vertical lagging was nailed to the girts.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers

They were all clad in fine long white albs, with two girts; their hair interwoven with narrow tape and purple ribbon, stuck with roses, gillyflowers, marjoram, daffadowndillies, thyme, and other sweet flowers.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony