seagirt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of seagirt
Example Sentences
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Above this symbol of Capital, in the tower, sits the old five-and-tenner Frank Winfield Woolworth himself, observing the seagirt isle with the proprietary air of King Kong.
From Time Magazine Archive
Finale : Rugged Pitcairn Island, the seagirt Pacific refuge of H. M. S. Bounty's, storied mutineers, heard nothing of Britain's last war until months after the outbreak.
From Time Magazine Archive
Highlights of the compendium of diaries, letters and essays that served as a contemporary Baedeker to far-off worlds and survives as the most authentic record of Elizabethan England's rise from seagirt obscurity to world power.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir Hartley Shawcross, President of the Board of Trade, went down last week to seagirt Cornwall, where he often goes sailing.
From Time Magazine Archive
The general found in this mute parlor of the seagirt convent memories of himself.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
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