engird

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"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 West, Jane

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

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 Norman, B. M.