seagirt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of seagirt
Example Sentences
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But he was in a seagirt fort, approached only over a narrow bottleneck of land.
From Time Magazine Archive
On Musa Dagh, seagirt mountain overlooking the village, he found it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like figures on a Grecian urn, some passionate Aegean islanders fight, love, hate and die against a mythic, seagirt sunscape.
From Time Magazine Archive
While most bankers regard island buyers as psychiatric cases or at least outlandish Thoreauvians, a cool quest for profit is a major motive for many investors who never even set foot on their seagirt dominions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Behind this seagirt rock! the star, That led him on from crown to crown, Has sunk; and nations from afar Gazed as it faded and went down.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes
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