engird
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of engird
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"Does not the chace," he would say, "now afford us equal pleasure? are not my dogs as swift, and these mountains as replete with game as those which engird my paternal residence."
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by West, Jane
The floors of the gallery which engird the rotunda, and the winding stairs leading to them, are of iron.
From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Norman, B. M.
She cites, as witness to her word, The frowning Adriatic strand; The Cyclades which rocks engird, And noted Rhodus’ distant land; Propontis and unkindly Thrace, And Savage Pontus’ billowy race.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
I sought Rebellion, and found grim Authority engirded there; I mustered in the ranks of Royal Authority, and found there only Chaos fighting in straighter lines.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
I propose," said he, "that the members of the Commune, engirded with their scarfs, shall make a review of all the battalions that can be assembled on the Boulevard Voltaire.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
She met him at the point where the last tree of the engirding avenue flanked the last house in the street.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas
The wreath that surrounded the child was not circular but oblong, almost as though engirding a tiny grave, but this Mehetabel did not see.
From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
All 403the while the physician is silent concerning the glove-fitting, steel-clasped corset, the heavy, dragging skirts, the bands engirding the body, the pinching, deforming boot, and the ruinous social dissipation of fashionable society.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
By a mile of engirding sea the prospect of escape looked so vain that one joined assent with a fleer.
From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence
In a clearing engirt by pines he stopped abruptly—stopped just in time.
From Frank of Freedom Hill by Derieux, Samuel A. (Samuel Arthur)
Cold, silent heights, engirt with zones of storm, Where Love for aye unmated must abide.
From The Path of Dreams Poems by Giltner, Leigh Gordon
Tho once surrounded by fenland, the Abbey of Glastonbury—a veritable treasure-house of legendary lore—stands now amid orchards and level pasture lands engirt by the river Bure.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
That gold must round engirt these brows of mine, Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, Is able with the change to kill and cure.
From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William
They, then, who deem it necessary for man's spiritual welfare that he should constantly feel the pressure of chastisement, and be engirt with the mist of tears, do not reason well.
From The Crown of Thorns : a token for the sorrowing by Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell)
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