water-girt

Mr. Jones, tired of the loneliness of his water-girt home, made his way to the meeting-house, more for the sake of a gossip with some of the neighbors than for the day's preaching, and it was there that he first heard the startling news of the unaccountable disappearance of

Plantation Sketches Margaret Devereux

Confined as it is in comparison with the vast stage of this water-girt globe, I did not know it in all its parts.

Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 1890

He was sure that since her disappearance from home this great, water-girt city held her somewhere, but it was like a monstrous quicksand, shifting its particles constantly, with no foundation, its upper granules of to-day buried to-morrow in ooze and slime.

The Four Million O. Henry 1886

Who in Canada has not longed to cast his eyes on the water-girt rocks and towers of

Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868

He could restore the old Highland stronghold, and transform the barren, water-girt rock into a garden of Eden; but he could not restore the rights of his own disinherited son.

The Lost Lady of Lone Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

In the midst of the valley was a large pueblo, the largest in America, surrounded with water, approached by causeways; in fine, a water-girt fortress impregnable to Indian assault.

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849