engirdles

The snake that engirdles the universe lifts its starry head.

A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

He looked on the splendid snow-crowned mountains whose old silver senate engirdles Rome with an eternal and silent majesty of presence, and he thought how often in ancient times they had been a shelter to free blood that would not endure oppression; and so gathering to his banner the crushed and scattered retainers of his father's house, and offering refuge and protection to multitudes of others whom the crimes and rapacities of the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

He flung the serpent into the ocean that engirdles the world.

The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Padraic Colum 1926

Evening was falling as we ran through the inhospitable region of sand and water and pine that engirdles Berlin.

The Man with the Clubfoot Valentine Williams 1914

He engirdles me, like a defensive army occupying a city wall, and makes me invincible against the menace and attacks of the devil.

The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910

It is well when we get so high that our vision comprehends our town, better still when it includes the country, better still when it encircles other countries, best of all when it engirdles the world.

The Silver Lining: Messages of Hope and Cheer 1817-1893 1907

So violently he contracts and extends himself that he pulls to and fro those who are trying to restrain him by their gripping weight, and I can see the zigzags of the candle held by a kneeling man whose other arm engirdles the mutilated maniac, who shouts so fiercely that he wakes up the sleepers and dispels the drowsiness of the rest.

Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

Considering that the ladies one meets at sea are much more clothed than the ladies whose diaphanous drapery one engirdles in ball-rooms, this prudery is amusing.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

The hills were not so high, nor were they in such close array as those of the Staffordshire town, and the Lancashire valley was not so deep and trench-like as the one that engirdles the potteries.

A Mummer's Wife 1892

Yea, and the century-crowned patriarch whose bounty engirdles the globe; --

The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations Emma Lazarus 1868