Begirdled

Thereafter waxed and waned the name of Alexander, and the power of Rome and the might of Islam; -- nations arose and vanished; -- cities grew and were not; -- the children of another civilization, vaster than Romes, begirdled the earth with conquest, and founded far-off empires, and came at last to rule in the land of that pilgrim's birth. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

On either side, to right and left the tree-girdle reached out toward the blue distance, thick close and unsundered, save where it and the plain which it begirdled was cleft amidmost by a river about as wide as the ❋ William Morris (1865)

With the day of peace begirdled from the change and the battle's wrack: ❋ William Morris (1865)

Its body, which was unlike that of ordinary fishes, was as solid as a rock, and of a jetty blackness throughout all that portion of it which floated above the water, with the exception of a narrow blood-red streak that completely begirdled it. ❋ Edgar Allan Poe (1829)