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
Chemistry feels that it owes much to Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research which will soon move into a huge, classic building girt by tall pillars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus girt with logic, Leon Henderson still had no price weapon last week.
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
He stood up and cast open his long black cloak, and behold! he was clad in mail beneath, and girt with a long sword, great-hilted in a sheath of black and silver.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
