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

From The Death of Balder by George Henry Borrow

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

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 E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

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 Francis Thompson

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

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

Harald firm-oathed! oft hast thou the earth engirdled with thy ships; Svein, too, through the sound sailed the King to meet.

From The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) by Ethel Harriet Hearn

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 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 camps, redoubts, and trenches, which engirdled Boston during its siege, were so many appliances in the practical training-school of war, which Washington promptly seized, appropriated, and developed.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 by Various

A mirage-like shimmer arose from the veldt, and the sunlight slanted upon the facets of near rock-walls engirdling turret-shaped cone, or flat-topped mount, as though sweeping over patches of gems.

From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Bertram Mitford

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

The mere fact that she stood beneath his engirdling arm, and gave no thought to the potential servants'-eyes behind them, was enough for present happiness.

From The Market-Place by Harold Frederic

The multitude entered the Pnyx through two narrow entrances pierced in the massy engirdling wall and took seats at pleasure; all were equals—the Alcmæonid, the charcoal-seller from Acharnæ.

From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

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