begird
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Till like a cold gust thrilled the little word At which each body and its soul begird And tighten them for battle.
From Poems by Wilfred Owen
Neither the nurse who comes at dawn to visit her nursling E'er shall avail her neck to begird with yesterday's ribband.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
In the mean time the eyes of her sister Grace Margaret had roamed disapprovingly over Genevieve Maud's white dress, the blue sash that begirded her middle, the rampant bow on her hair.
From Many Kingdoms by Elizabeth Garver Jordan
The river is characterized by a broad, deep, and quiet stream, begirt with a vegetation of exceeding luxuriance.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
I know why the elephant by a thick skin And a tough one is ever begirt: It is so when he's struck by the trainer's crowbar, He can laugh in his trunk all unhurt.
From Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 by Various
Well dost thou know how the town is begirt, and the wood at a distance, Down from the hills to be brought, and the people are humbled in terror.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various
The scene is at the foot of the Splugen Alps, in a little village begirt with mountains, every crag and eminence of which is surmounted by a ruined castle.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever
The virgin then approach'd “Pre-excellent in fairness, with a band “Of matrons and unwedded nymphs begirt.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
