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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

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.

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 Lissagary, P.

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 Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

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 Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

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 Housman, Clemence

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 Hardy, Thomas

Both his arms engirt her as previously, but his eyes, looking straight before him, were sombre with meditation.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

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

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

Ay, Margaret; my heart is drown'd with grief, Whose flood begins to flow within mine eyes, My body round engirt with misery, For what's more miserable than discontent?—

From King Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William

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 Lord, John

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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)