engirdle
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of engirdle
Example Sentences
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How should I so, That cannot with these arms of mine engirdle All which I am; that am a foreigner In mine own region?
From New Poems by Thompson, Francis
A considerable portion of the abbey buildings that engirdle the summit of the rocky islet of Mont St. Michel belong to the Norman period, although much of the work is Gothic.
From France by Home, Gordon Cochrane
Whom seekest thou, where unclomb rocks engirdle Peace, smiling peace?
From The Death of Balder by Borrow, George Henry
The columns of the palace reach up to heaven, but no walls engirdle them, only curtains green, white, and blue,—whilst the warm sweet breeze blows always thither from green prairies.”
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
The seas which engirdle this island," the Ambassador said thoughtfully, "have brought the English great weal, as they may bring to her much woe.
From The Great Impersonation by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
On Sundays and festivals we went to Mass together, and spent our leisure in excursions in the fields and pleasant groves with which Lucca is engirdled.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
Though engirdled now By heavenly hosts of saints and seraphim, I cannot fancy it.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma
Still higher, on their left, the elevation called Bulbarrow, or Bealbarrow, well-nigh the highest in South Wessex, swelled into the sky, engirdled by its earthen trenches.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas
Harald firm-oathed! oft hast thou the earth engirdled with thy ships; Svein, too, through the sound sailed the King to meet.
From The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) by Hearn, Ethel Harriet
We moved our hands, for example, when we were dwellers on the earth, and in so doing we gave vibration to the atmosphere which engirdled it.
From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Poe, Edgar Allan
The multitude entered the Pnyx through two narrow entrances pierced in the massy engirdling wall and took seats at pleasure; all were equals—the Alcmæonid, the charcoal-seller from Acharnæ.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
The bivouac fires of the engirdling enemy glow all around except for a small segment to the west—the track of retreat, still kept open by BERTRAND, and already taken by the baggage-waggons.
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
He nodded towards the building, which seemed to be still holding the sunlight of the day, so golden-white it shone under the evening sky, and against the engirdling forest.
From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Puck alone could quite have reached her standard with his engirdling of the earth in forty minutes.
From Elsie Inglis The Woman with the Torch by Ashwell, Lena
It is a large and deep stone basin, half full of warm water, in which small fishes, snakes and tortoises disport themselves; the massive engirdling walls demonstrate its Roman origin.
From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Douglas, Norman
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