seagirt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of seagirt
Example Sentences
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Finale : Rugged Pitcairn Island, the seagirt Pacific refuge of H. M. S. Bounty's, storied mutineers, heard nothing of Britain's last war until months after the outbreak.
From Time Magazine Archive
Highlights of the compendium of diaries, letters and essays that served as a contemporary Baedeker to far-off worlds and survives as the most authentic record of Elizabethan England's rise from seagirt obscurity to world power.
From Time Magazine Archive
And of all the neutrals save the strong and seagirt U. S., The Netherlands, with the world's third most valuable colonial empire, has the most to lose.
From Time Magazine Archive
The highlights of Richard Hakluyt's amazing compendium of travel diaries, letters and essays, all of which eloquently chronicle Elizabethan England's rise from seagirt obscurity to world power.
From Time Magazine Archive
England had been a seagirt nation from the beginning of time.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
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