Trees that are girdled by mice should be wrapped up as soon as discovered, so that the wood shall not become too dry.
Even though the tree is completely girdled for a distance of three or four inches, it usually may be saved by this treatment, unless the injury extends into the wood.
I thatgirdled thee in me As Mary girdled Jesus yet unborn - Thou dost believe it?
FN: The girdledpines are killed by barking them round, to facilitate the clearing.
Cloud-feathers oozing rich with light, Slow trembling in the locks of Night, Her dusky waist with sultry gold Girdled and buckled fold on fold.
Meanwhile the home of the republic lay defenceless on its mountain-girdled seaboard.
In point of scenery and situation it is hardly second to any of these mountain-girdled cities; but its poverty and bareness are scarcely less striking than those of Bocognano.
Soon the sunlight was gone, and moonrise came to close the day, as we rolled onward to Sarzana, through arundo donax and vine-girdled olive trees and villages, where contadini lounged upon the bridges.
Dull pain throbbed in my brain, as if it were girdledby a hard, tightening band.
The Israelites, at the foot of the cloud-girdled mount, whose fiery zone they were forbidden to pass, could scarcely have felt more awe and dread than I did, strange and weak as it may seem.
Better the daily task, the measured duty, the chained-down spirit, the girdled heart.
He had meant to keep her for five minutes, or ten at the most, and then to bring her back; but they had walked down to the path which girdled the cliff above the lake.
Count von Breitstein, in his usual abrupt manner, as the arm of Leopold girdled the slim waist of the Princess, and the eyes of Leopold drank light from another pair of eyes lifted to his in laughter.
Just below the summit was a complete bay of snow, girdled with two sharp peaks of red baked schists and gneiss, strangely contorted, and thrown up at all angles with no prevalent dip or strike, and permeated with veins of granite.
The harbour was hidden by the elms, but below lay the frosted marsh and islands, girdled by the glistening sea-walls and their coal black shadows, and great wide Kerith, its expanse jewelled here and there by the lights of homesteads.
At the end of those paths was another clearing, wide but smaller than this, and girdled all sides by the forest; and there was something there.
They found, however, that Jim very well knew what he was about.
Thou hast spoken well and not without good instruction--I perceive my fame hath reached thee in thine own ocean-girdled lands, where music is as rare as sunshine.
Somehow or other they must smash a way out by sledge-hammer blows, left and right, west and east, from that ring of nations which girdled them.
It was a formidable defensive position, one fortress girdled by line after line of trenches, and earthwork redoubts, and deep tunnels, and dugouts in which the German troops could live below ground until the moment of attack.
It was girdled by a belt of clear water, with four stone bridges and a double wall on which stood a goodly company of noble gentlemen.
For a while we ran smoothly along a road on a high embankment, which reminded Sir Ralph and the Chauffeulier of the Loire; less beautiful though, they thought, despite the great wedding-ring of white mountains that girdled the country round.
Neither has he girdled her about with cloud nor stood stars upon her forehead.
There is a goddess, who, aloft in the empty air, advances girdled about with a cloud, but with a shining white cloak and a glory in her hair, and makes a rushing with her wings.
He sketched a sympathetic picture of the fallen despot, and of the smokeless altars, girdled by a jeering rabble of so-called philosophers, and of how irritating it must be to anybody to have your actual existence denied.
The other was dressed like them in a white, girdled khalat and a flowing head-dress which, banded about the temples with a triple circlet of braided camel-hair, fell to his shoulders.
Girdled at the waist with a Bakhauriot belt, its skirts were drawn back to reveal his wide silken breeches, tucked into short boots of soft green leather, adorned with gold thread.
His only weapon was a broad curved Cherkees knife in an ivory sheath girdled high on his left hip, kozak fashion.
Her eyes were clear as the sun, Her brows were fresh as the day; She girdled herself with gold, Her robes were manifold; But the days of her worship are done, Her praise is taken away.
He lived in the double log cabin on the slope near the girdled poplar.
No; war and its scars Seemed as distant just then as the fierce front of Mars From a love-girdled earth; but, alack!
With the mocking lips wherewith we said, "Thou art the dearest and fairest to us Of all the daughters the sea hath bred, Of all green-girdled isles that woo us!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "girdled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
