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Fair waist that curves beneath the heart I love, I shall engirdle you with priceless gems Won by my prowess for your perfect grace.

From Under King Constantine by Katrina Trask

The cirri of one set, the anterior, extend forward about twice the length of the anterior half; those of the posterior set closely engirdle the lower half, reaching not quite to the posterior extremity.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Gary N. (Gary Nathan) Calkins

How should I so, That cannot with these arms of mine engirdle All which I am; that am a foreigner In mine own region?

From New Poems by Francis Thompson

The columns of the palace reach up to heaven, but no walls engirdle them, only curtains green, white, and blue,—whilst the warm sweet breeze blows always thither from green prairies.”

From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

The seas which engirdle this island," the Ambassador said thoughtfully, "have brought the English great weal, as they may bring to her much woe.

From The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

They have made no great mark in history, but their stout walls have time and again been engirdled by Scottish spears, and after such occasions there was not infrequently lamentation by Esk and Liddell.

From The Gold Trail by Harold Bindloss

Though cut off from the telegraph, it sent out pigeon-posts; though engirdled by Boers, it made sorties of the most animated description, and literally laughed at the hint of surrender.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Louis Creswicke

The place was still engirdled by a ring of smouldering, glowing ashes, the heat from whose red caverns almost blinded us at first.

From The White Shield by Bertram Mitford

But he climbed boldly on board when beckoned to, and we loaded him with gifts of pretty beads, and engirdled his loins with red cloth, then sent him grinning away.

From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables

We moved our hands, for example, when we were dwellers on the earth, and in so doing we gave vibration to the atmosphere which engirdled it.

From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Edgar Allan Poe

By it countries are bound together "in its globe engirdling web; so that when a modern economist concerns himself with the interdependence of nations he naturally looks to cotton for his most effective illustration."

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various

The multitude entered the Pnyx through two narrow entrances pierced in the massy engirdling wall and took seats at pleasure; all were equals—the Alcmæonid, the charcoal-seller from Acharnæ.

From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

There was a halo about it, engirdling rich, flowing waves of reddish hair, the lights in which glowed like flame.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

There must be a separation of rings all lying in one plane, a generation of planets and satellites all rotating alike, a central sun and engirdling globes.

From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper

It is a large and deep stone basin, half full of warm water, in which small fishes, snakes and tortoises disport themselves; the massive engirdling walls demonstrate its Roman origin.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas