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
Even a victory would leave the invader begirt about with dangers and difficulty; a defeat would be his utter annihilation.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
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
Built in a little cleft of the Apennines, it is begirt with great mountains,—wild, barren, and desolate.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
Queen yet saw I never begirt with such a band, Each marching as to battle with naked sword in hand.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round!
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
