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Till like a cold gust thrilled the little word At which each body and its soul begird And tighten them for battle.

From Poems by Wilfred Owen

Neither the nurse who comes at dawn to visit her nursling E'er shall avail her neck to begird with yesterday's ribband.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton

In the mean time the eyes of her sister Grace Margaret had roamed disapprovingly over Genevieve Maud's white dress, the blue sash that begirded her middle, the rampant bow on her hair.

From Many Kingdoms by Elizabeth Garver Jordan

I know why the elephant by a thick skin And a tough one is ever begirt: It is so when he's struck by the trainer's crowbar, He can laugh in his trunk all unhurt.

From Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 by Various

The valiant John, begirt with warlike state, Now leads his bands from fair Abrantes' gate; Whose lawns of green the infant Tagus laves, As from his spring he rolls his cooly waves.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões

“A youth, his new-form'd horns with reeds begirt, “Sudden appear'd, 'mid waist above the waves; “Who but in stature larger, and his skin “Of azure teint, might Acis well be deem'd.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

In America I fancied I might accomplish something; over seas, I hoped to become useful and essential: if any task was not begirt with a thousand dangers, I considered it trivial, unworthy of me.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The streams, begirt by fine forests, all ran eastward, and were all full of fish, and the crystalline water which so greatly distinguishes Western America from all other countries.

From The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier by Various