We cannot give the name of basin to the indeterminate cincture of the great Austral Ocean, which has no boundary save that on the north it is touched by the Indian Ocean, the Coraline and the Pacific.
Him great Tydides urges to contend, Warm with the hopes of conquest for his friend; Officious with the cincture girds him round; And to his wrist the gloves of death are bound.
City walls, to a properly constituted American, can never be an object of indifference; and it is emphatically "no end of a sensation" to pace in the shadow of this massive cincture of Rome.
So saying, the cincture from her breast she loosed Embroider'd, various, her all-charming zone.
To them therefore the cincture or belt of the Greeks was unnecessary.
Arriving soon Where wounded Menelaus stood, while all The bravest of Achaia's host around The godlike hero press'd, he strove at once 250 To draw the arrow from his cincture forth.
Not far from here lies a lake called by the Sicani Pergus, girt with a cincture of leafy woods close around its pallid waters.
What girdles of Babylon, meet cincture of a royal breast, are adorned with such varied jewels?
The northern constellation Draco, whose sinuosities wind like a river through the wintry bear, was made the astronomical cincture of the Universe, as the serpent encircles the mundane egg in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Draco made the astronomical cincture of the Universe, 498-m.
The females always wore a cincture around the middle.
They anointed his body, completely naked, save by a cincture round the loins, placed the stilus (vain weapon!
What was rather remarkable, thecincture held no purse, which was the almost indispensable appurtenance of the girdle, even when that purse had the misfortune to be empty!
He looks down with serene welcome in his face, an angel on one side ready with a crown of leaves; an archangel swathed in drapery, on the other, eagerly asking leave to deposit on the Virgin's brow the golden cincture in his hands.
There was a something beyond, faint, vague, impalpable as yet, which the rolling mists begirt as sometimes theycincture an Alpine needle.
Then, where the grove with leaves umbrageous bends, With forceful strength a branch the hero rends; Around his loins the verdant cincture spreads A wreathy foliage and concealing shades.
She lets slip from her head her fine-spun coif, she tears away the thin veils which cover her bosom, and the smooth cincture which supports her quivering breasts.
Down below there, a horseman, clad in white, is framed with his white horse in the moulded cincture of a door.
He slipped along the seat to where his scarlet cincture and cap lay, and began to put these on.
On the door, at the foot of his bed, hung his cassock, and the purple cincture that lay across it recalled him to at least a part of the facts.
In 408, the Empress Pulcheria, the sister of Theodosius and wife of Marcian, built churches to contain the swaddling-clothes of the Infant Jesus and the cincture of the Blessed Virgin.
Her abundant brown-black hair was plaited in two thick ropes, with pearls and silver lace reaching far below the jewelled golden cincture that encompassed her well-formed bust.
Again Blanche was the recipient of her father’s generosity, for on June 7 the same year he gave her a cincture of wrought silver which cost 11 florins.
I saw as it were the faded crowns and the crumbling thrones of dead despots, who once girdled the earth with a cincture of fire, and marked its boundaries with the sword, writing again their achievements where mankind might read and wonder.
These gentlemen had scarcely begun to sap the foundations of the superstructure of reconstruction, when dinner was announced by the beautiful hostess, who stood in the door, as judge Bonham declared, encircled in a cincture of angelic grace.
As the last society lady somersaulted out of the window, great tongues of fire were lapping up frieze and cornice, and facade, and the cresent and star disappeared in a ghastly cincture of fire.
Is it lawful for a priest to use a cincture of the kind generally used by bishops?
The cincture for the use of a priest does not differ from that for the use of a bishop.
Fold me fast where the cincture slips, Prison all my soul in eternities of pleasure, Girdle me for once!
Parades she now Loosed of the cincture that so irked the loin?
It is not proper for the president of the choir to wear the alb and cincture at matins and lauds.
Is it proper for the president of the choir to wear the alb and cincture during the recitation of the office of the dead--the matins and lauds?
They anointed his body, completely naked save by a cincture round the loins, placed the stilus (vain weapon!
As for the rider, he wore no other clothing than a light cincture at his waist, and a pair of moccasins.
His attire consisted merely of a scanty cincture and an old buffalo robe, tattered and begrimed by use, which hung over his shoulders.
This robe was confined at the waist by a broad cincture or girdle, outside of which was worn a narrowish belt wherein daggers were often thrust.
In early times this cincture seems to have been fastened by a ribbon with long streaming ends, which are very conspicuous in the Nimrud sculptures.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cincture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
