Guido seeing himselfe round engirt with them, sodainly thus replyed: Gentlemen, you may use mee in your owne house as you please. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On the top of all, stood a stately Palace, having a large and spacious Court in the middest round engirt with Galleries, Hals, and Chambers, every one separate alone by themselves, and beautified with ❋ Unknown (2004)
So that by often winding and turning about, as the passage appeared troublesome to him, when he thought him selfe free and furthest from them, he was round engirt, and seized on by them. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Pedro all this while sitting in the Tree, so full of griefe, as no man could be more; about the houre of midnight (by the bright splendour of the Moone) espied about some twenty Wolves, who, so soone as they got a sight of the Horse, ran and engirt him round about. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Now has come a new era, and the evangelistic efforts among the Chinese are assuming greater proportions than ever, and are engirt with every sign of gracious success. ❋ Various (N/A)
O liberal beyond all Alexanders, seeing thou hast given me only for eight months service the best island that the sea doth compass or engirt! ❋ Unknown (1909)
Wherefore, even as you have engirt my middle with your arms, so likewise have I tied fast my mind with virtuous and forcible desires that are wholly different from yours, as you shall perceive, if, seeking to force me, you presume to pass further with your inordinate design. ❋ Unknown (1909)
He, not neglecting so a weighty a business, horsing himself with a seemly troop of his own attendants, and calling to his assistance so many as in discretion was thought meet, having likewise in his company Sir Edward Bromlie, on Monday, Jan. 20 last, by break of day, did engirt and round beat the house of Mayster Thomas ❋ Allan Fea (1908)
Citadel on Cape Diamond and engirt the whole city on the hillside, seemed imposing enough to us in those days. ❋ Unknown (1903)
The two white men were engirt with a mystery that defended them from all harm. ❋ Unknown (1903)
A misconception appears to prevail that the island is in summer wrapped in fog, and its shores in winter engirt by ice. ❋ Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead (1901)
In a clearing engirt by pines he stopped abruptly -- stopped just in time. ❋ Unknown (1901)
By degrees this young man will discover that the only difference between Wall Street and a huge, crowd-engirt gaming-table is one between simplicity and complexity. ❋ Various (1888)
Of the darkness that heaven was engirt with, divided and rent as a shroud, ❋ Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873)
But the boy was no longer swathed and bandaged, although, for security, his plump little body was engirt by the same sash that encircled his father's own waist. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
We are here living unconsciously engirt by another universe than the senses can apprehend, thinly veiled, but real, and waiting for us with hospitable invitation. ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)
Into that realm many gates are shown leading, some of them peaceful, inviting, surrounded by apparent emblems of deliverance, rest, and blessedness; others yawning, terrific, engirt by the heads of gnashing beasts and furies threatening their victim. ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)
A vague, constraining sense of invisible beings, by whom we are engirt, fills us. ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)
Some with womanish hands shook thyrsi with wreath-covered points; some tossed limbs of a rended steer; some engirt themselves with writhed snakes; some enacted obscure orgies with deep chests, orgies of which the profane vainly crave a hearing; others beat the tambours with outstretched palms, or from the burnished brass provoked shrill tinklings, blew raucous-sounding blasts from many horns, and the barbarous pipe droned forth horrible song. ❋ Gaius Valerius Catullus (1855)
Dionysus also expressed the most consummate physical beauty, representing the god as a beautiful youth, crowned with ivy, engirt with ❋ John Lord (1852)
