seagirt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of seagirt
Example Sentences
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Above this symbol of Capital, in the tower, sits the old five-and-tenner Frank Winfield Woolworth himself, observing the seagirt isle with the proprietary air of King Kong.
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
On Musa Dagh, seagirt mountain overlooking the village, he found it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Germans had 10,000 men in the defenses when a U.S. spearhead drove across the causeway and into the ancient, walled, seagirt city.
From Time Magazine Archive
On and on she danced through the thickest of the wilderness, on and on they followed until they reached the very heart of the seagirt neck of land we know as Stanley Park.
From Legends of Vancouver by Johnson, E. Pauline
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