She is cinctured and veiled and would not know how to dress otherwise and would not be here at all if the children were healthy and the dogs middle-class. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)
Now that the lines are drawn, the players named and sworn to serve with valour, girded of the loins in polished leather cinctured brass upon the brows ❋ Ivan Donn Carswell (2007)
His long robe was of dark cloth, cinctured round the waist with his rich sword-belt, from which was suspended ❋ Henry Morton (2004)
Ravenna, with barbaric pride, built her round-cinctured towers to the glory of the Exarchate. ❋ Various (N/A)
Saw ye not white fog-wreaths floating through the cold gray dawn over ice-laden billows, as they roll through yon rock-cinctured chasm? ❋ Various (N/A)
Her waist, tight-cinctured, was -- which is the highest praise -- not ultra-fashionable, and the undulations of her gauzy drapery disclosed, as she receded, enough of ankle and crural adjacency to furnish hints of improvement to most classical sculptors. ❋ Various (N/A)
On either side stood as supporters, in full human size, or larger, a salvage man proper, to use the language of heraldry, wreathed and cinctured, and holding in his hand an oak-tree eradicated, that is, torn up by the roots. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Millner, as mechanically, took one of the virginally cinctured cigars, and began to undo its wrappings. ❋ Unknown (1910)
There came a gentle pat upon the woodland floor, and from a tree overhead dropped down another living plant like to the one above yet not exactly similar, a male, my instincts told me, in full solitary blossom like her above, cinctured with leaves, and supported by half a score of thick white roots that worked, as I looked, like the limbs of a crab. ❋ Unknown (1905)
A sapphire sky fading to turquoise, in which great clouds crowded high in argent splendour -- a young girl naked of feet, her snowy body cinctured at the waist with straight and silvered folds, standing amid a riot of wild flowers, head slightly dropped back, white arms inert, pendant. ❋ Unknown (1899)
There came a gentle pat upon the woodland floor, and from a tree overhead dropped down another living plant like to the one above yet not exactly similar, a male, my instincts told me, in full solitary blossom like her above, cinctured with leaves, and supported by half a score of thick white roots that worked, as I looked, like the limbs of ❋ Edwin Lester Linden Arnold (1896)
Her people are arrayed in purple vesture, and wear cloaks of gold; their loins are cinctured with girdles rich with precious stones. ❋ Thomas Okey (1893)
A broad plain, watered by many rivers, showed the towers of Louviers and red roofs cinctured by the greatest of them; short of the walls were the ranked white tents, columned smoke, waggons, with men and horses, as purposeless, little, and busy as a swarm of bees. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
Within were a circle of white-robed gold-cinctured priests holding long golden trumpets in their hands, and immediately in front of us was our friend Agon, the High Priest, with his curious cap upon his head. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Bethel on the shore up to the stately Kirk of the parish cinctured with its double acre of ancient grave-stones -- ❋ Unknown (1887)
Yet on the wild sea-cinctured Stack, and in that young fresh morning, the children tasted the joy of life; and only the fascinating vision of the unknown habitant of the Glistering Beaches had power to wile them away. ❋ Unknown (1887)
