girdling

Example Sentences

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Girdling the world at its equatorial bulge is a belt of hunger.

From Time Magazine Archive

The glory swims Girdling the glory-giver, swallowed straight By night's abysmal gloom, unglorified Behind as erst before the advancer: gloom?

From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus)

Girdling Cicely with his left arm he parried her father's lunge and smote his blade aside.

From I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

“Oh, for a breath of the great North Sea, Girdling the mountains!”

From An Orkney Maid by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Girdling her waist was a zone of rubies that burned positive in the tempered light.

From Romance Island by Gale, Zona