girt
Example Sentences
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And at the center is Finland, a country of just 5.4 million people, girt by the sea and lashed by the wind.
From The New Yorker • May 12, 2015
Fellow passengers took small note of the droopy, bedraggled mustache, the old fashioned spectacles, the somewhat scrawny neck girt by a casual tie.
From Time Magazine Archive
This week, with the annual Automobile Show in Manhattan marking the January first of the 1938 automobile year, rival makers were girt for renewed combat on a scale far greater than ever before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Within two years, he declared, the British Empire will have scrapped her historic free trade policy, girt herself with a tariff wall against U. S. and even European competition.
From Time Magazine Archive
My Vigor cools to speak of him, so girt is he in Solemnity — Helm and Hauberk — with only the Eyes peering out through the gloomy Visor.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
