begird
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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
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
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
The virgin then approach'd “Pre-excellent in fairness, with a band “Of matrons and unwedded nymphs begirt.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
Built in a little cleft of the Apennines, it is begirt with great mountains,—wild, barren, and desolate.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
Soon after these, came striding up the hill the long gaunt form of Stephen Foster, who, mounting the stone wall on the lower side, with one bound sprang over the thickset-hedge that begirt the terrace.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
On earth, “a tawny sibyl,” with “an old striped curtain—” And tatter’d tapestry o’er her shoulders hung— Her loins with patchwork cincture were begirt, That more than spoke diversity of dirt.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
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
