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And she brought the charm forth and placed it in the fragrant band which engirdled her, just beneath her bosom, divinely fair.

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Attica, which lies engirdled by a ring of natural fortresses?

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The camps, redoubts, and trenches, which engirdled Boston during its siege, were so many appliances in the practical training-school of war, which Washington promptly seized, appropriated, and developed.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various

Through a village, round a sweep to the left, over a tract said to be much frequented by serpents, and then in the deepening and chilly dusk we made out Baramula, lying engirdled by a belt of poplars about a mile away.

A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

Then came on the weird, elfinish night, that mockery of day, when, except in the direction of the lake, great mountains of fire loomed up on every side against the horizon, so that one felt environed, besieged, engirdled by horrors.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

This is the more common form, although isolated mesas, bits of tableland completely engirdled by cliffs, are but little less common.

The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 Cosmos Mindeleff

Though cut off from the telegraph, it sent out pigeon-posts; though engirdled by Boers, it made sorties of the most animated description, and literally laughed at the hint of surrender.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke

And she brought the charm forth and placed it in the fragrant band which engirdled her, just beneath her bosom, divinely fair.

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

And she brought the charm forth and placed it in the fragrant band which engirdled her, just beneath her bosom, divinely fair.

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

(Men took time and pains to say graceful things, then-a days!) He told me that night - what he had already written in brief in a late letter - of his betrothal, of his happiness, and his ambition to make the best of himself for the dear sake of the woman who was waiting for him in the college town engirdled by the blue Virginian mountains.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910