begird

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

Here, however, the road became better and led us in a pretty valley through which a stream wound, while on both sides granite walls begirt it to a height of at least three hundred feet.

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

The river is characterized by a broad, deep, and quiet stream, begirt with a vegetation of exceeding luxuriance.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

The rise of the Mohammadan power in Arabia, and the rapid spread of Islamism, first circumscribed the limits of the empire, and begirt it round with foes.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris

Alone—alone—a desolate dreary wild, Herbless and verdureless; low swampy moss, Where tadpoles grew to frogs, for leagues begirt My solitary path.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various

By the waves begirt were once “Antissa, Pharos, and Phœnician Tyre; “And not a spot an island now remains.

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