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 Jane West
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
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 B. M. Norman
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 P. Lissagary
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 Clemence Housman
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 S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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 B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
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 Thomas Hardy
The rampart rocks that engirt the valley were yellow rims below; and across the tops of the far mesas could be seen scrub forests and snowy peaks.
From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
His statues of Dionysus also expressed the most consummate physical beauty, representing the god as a beautiful youth, crowned with ivy, engirt with a nebris, and expressing tender and dreamy emotions.
From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord
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 Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
He, with each princely virtue's blaze, Shines as the sun engirt by rays.”
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
A misconception appears to prevail that the island is in summer wrapped in fog, and its shores in winter engirt by ice.
From The Story of Newfoundland by Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of Birkenhead
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