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The floors of the gallery which engird the rotunda, and the winding stairs leading to them, are of iron.

From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by B. M. Norman

"Does not the chace," he would say, "now afford us equal pleasure? are not my dogs as swift, and these mountains as replete with game as those which engird my paternal residence."

From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West

She cites, as witness to her word, The frowning Adriatic strand; The Cyclades which rocks engird, And noted Rhodus’ distant land; Propontis and unkindly Thrace, And Savage Pontus’ billowy race.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

I sought Rebellion, and found grim Authority engirded there; I mustered in the ranks of Royal Authority, and found there only Chaos fighting in straighter lines.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

I propose," said he, "that the members of the Commune, engirded with their scarfs, shall make a review of all the battalions that can be assembled on the Boulevard Voltaire.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

All 403the while the physician is silent concerning the glove-fitting, steel-clasped corset, the heavy, dragging skirts, the bands engirding the body, the pinching, deforming boot, and the ruinous social dissipation of fashionable society.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower

The wreath that surrounded the child was not circular but oblong, almost as though engirding a tiny grave, but this Mehetabel did not see.

From The Broom-Squire by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

By a mile of engirding sea the prospect of escape looked so vain that one joined assent with a fleer.

From The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman

She met him at the point where the last tree of the engirding avenue flanked the last house in the street.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

In a clearing engirt by pines he stopped abruptly—stopped just in time.

From Frank of Freedom Hill by Samuel A. (Samuel Arthur) Derieux

Round about, the camp was engirt with bush and thin forest of giraffe-acacia.

From Tales of South Africa by H.A. Bryden

His statues of Dionysus also expressed the most consummate physical beauty, representing the god as a beautiful youth, crowned with ivy, engirt with a nebris, and expressing tender and dreamy emotions.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

We are here living unconsciously engirt by another universe than the senses can apprehend, thinly veiled, but real, and waiting for us with hospitable invitation.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger

The two white men were engirt with a mystery that defended them from all harm.

From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut