engirdle
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of engirdle
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If you choose, plant the foot of the ladder in a fiery test and engirdle each round with a forest of thorns.
From The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Robert E. Bell
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 Gordon Cochrane Home
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 E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Whom seekest thou, where unclomb rocks engirdle Peace, smiling peace?
From The Death of Balder by George Henry Borrow
The cirri of one set, the anterior, extend forward about twice the length of the anterior half; those of the posterior set closely engirdle the lower half, reaching not quite to the posterior extremity.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Gary N. (Gary Nathan) Calkins
The ships of iron that kept the Confederate States engirdled and forbade outside meddling with domestic troubles.
From Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way by William Pittenger
Though engirdled now By heavenly hosts of saints and seraphim, I cannot fancy it.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Emma Lazarus
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 Ethel Harriet Hearn
Not a cloud blotted the sparkling vault overhead, which now blazed out in a perfect galaxy of light, engirdled by the luminous zone of the milky way.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
The largest of these, Innisfallen, almost midway between the eastern and western shores, is some thirty acres in extent, and is engirdled by leafy bowers of green trees.
From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Robert Lloyd Praeger
It was a big comfortable place with engirdling balconies whence one looked upon the blossoming beauties of a May-time garden.
From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Geraldine Bonner
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 Norman Douglas
In a vast, irregular circle, a wheel of life with the fort as its hub, spread an engirdling encampment.
From The Emigrant Trail by Geraldine Bonner
The lovely hills, the engirdling sea, the sweet glow of evening—she saw it all again.
From A Mere Accident by George (George Augustus) Moore
During those golden summer mornings in which he wandered in the more or less vernal meadows engirdling the city, latent, unsuspected forces began to awake.
From The Sailor by J. C. Snaith
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