Engird

The steersman,5 the boatswain, the lieutenant,6 the look-out-man at the prow, the shipright — these are the people who engird the city with power far rather than her heavy infantry7 and men of birth of quality. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The five on the left, engird all the sides, from the left flank outward: and therefore in arranging the companies, the pikemen ought to be placed so that they turn by that flank which in uncovered. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The steersman, (5) the boatswain, the lieutenant, (6) the look-out-man at the prow, the shipright -- these are the people who engird the city with power far rather than her heavy infantry (7) and men of birth of quality. ❋ 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon (1874)

From the roots of the rocks underlying the gulfs that engird it around ❋ Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873)

Shalt see the horsemen engird Baghdad * Like clouds that wall the whole world below, ❋ Anonymous (1855)

"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." ❋ Jane West (1805)