engirdle
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of engirdle
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Fair waist that curves beneath the heart I love, I shall engirdle you with priceless gems Won by my prowess for your perfect grace.
From Under King Constantine by Katrina Trask
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 William Stearns Davis
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
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
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 Edgar Allan Poe
That hunger for affection too long withheld was for the time displaced by an almost physical sense of an implacable past which still engirdled her.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
An hour's journey brought them to the bank of the river, which, dividing above it, engirdled the town, to reunite near the roadway that they followed.
From The People of the Mist by Henry Rider Haggard
But he climbed boldly on board when beckoned to, and we loaded him with gifts of pretty beads, and engirdled his loins with red cloth, then sent him grinning away.
From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables
In a moment the heat became unbearable, engirdled, as we were, within a ring of flame; and the dense, choking volumes of smoke swept in upon us, blinding us completely.
From The White Shield by Bertram Mitford
There was a halo about it, engirdling rich, flowing waves of reddish hair, the lights in which glowed like flame.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
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 Thomas Hardy
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
For it is a walled city without suburbs, scarce a building of any kind beyond the parapet and fosse engirdling it.
From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Elizabeth Reid
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 William Stearns Davis
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