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Jaan lifted hands to the crown engirdling his brows.

The Day Of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973

Jaan lifted hands to the crown engirdling his brows.

The Day of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973

Only think of wearing a thick, heavy girdle of many pounds 'weight around the whole zone of the abdominal region -- a sort of engirdling poultice, heating and pressing like a girdle of hot lava, day after day and year after year!

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. George Sumner Weaver

On the other hand the people of the engirdling zone are called the Cinghalese, spelled according to fancy of us authors and compositors, who legislate for the spelling of the British empire, with an

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

By it countries are bound together "in its globe engirdling web; so that when a modern economist concerns himself with the interdependence of nations he naturally looks to cotton for his most effective illustration."

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

Puck alone could quite have reached her standard with his engirdling of the earth in forty minutes.

Elsie Inglis The Woman with the Torch Eva Shaw McLaren 1914

I cannot conceive aught that could give a traveller juster cause to halt in sign of reverence; no altar crowned with flowers, no grotto shadowed with foliage, [35] no oak bedecked with horns, no beech garlanded with the skins of beasts, no mound whose engirdling hedge proclaims its sanctity, no tree-trunk hewn into the semblance of a god, no turf still wet with libations, no stone astream with precious unguents.

The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914

It is a large and deep stone basin, half full of warm water, in which small fishes, snakes and tortoises disport themselves; the massive engirdling walls demonstrate its Roman origin.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

Thomas D'Arcy McGee as an Empire Builder to her rightful position and making her the polished buckle in the belt of Empire engirdling the world.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee as an Empire Builder 1906

The multitude entered the Pnyx through two narrow entrances pierced in the massy engirdling wall and took seats at pleasure; all were equals — the Alcmæonid, the charcoal-seller from Acharnæ.

A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903