engirdle
Example Sentences
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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 Davis, William Stearns
The seas which engirdle this island," the Ambassador said thoughtfully, "have brought the English great weal, as they may bring to her much woe.
From The Great Impersonation by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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 Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
How should I so, That cannot with these arms of mine engirdle All which I am; that am a foreigner In mine own region?
From New Poems by Thompson, Francis
Why engirdle its waist in warmth and cordage, and expose its feet to every storm and frost, to mud and snow?
