The red jasper worn in the waist girdles of the ancient Egyptians was reputed, as has been stated, to be a coagulated drop of the blood of the mother goddess Isis.
Egyptian women who wore a red jasper in their waist-girdles called the stone "a drop of the blood of Isis (the mother goddess)".
Costly ornaments and silken and woolen robes in all the colors of the rainbow were brought in, shoes stiff with rich embroidery of pearls and jewels were tied on to their tender feet, and golden girdles fastened round their waists.
Over the vast ocean which girdles the vault of heaven, the sun moves in a boat or car drawn by the planets and fixed stars.
Their girdles were three inches broad, having cabalistical names, signs, and circles inscribed thereon.
She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
What advantages can you see in having the arms and legs attached to girdles instead of having them fastened directly to the vertebral column?
Make a comparison of the two girdles as to their attachment to the spine and their consequent rigidity or freedom of movement.
Peaceful men, we did not ornament ourgirdles with pistols, yataghans, &c.
Purses, daggers, keys, penners and inkhorns, beads and even books, dangled from girdles in the 15th and early 16th centuries.
Even priests must be rebuked for their silver girdles with baselards hanging from them.
Girdles of varying richness are seen on most of the western medieval effigies.
Girdles and girdle-buckles are not often found in Gallo-Roman graves, but in the graves of Franks and Burgundians they are constantly present, often ornamented with bosses of silver or bronze, chased or inlaid.
And your waste Mistris, were as slender as my wit, One a these Maides girdles for your waste should be fit.
O thou Wall That girdles in those Wolues, diue in the earth, And fence not Athens.
Then she put on her lovely scarlet robe, and bade them attire themselves in green, and she took the jewelled girdles out of the treasury, and gave one to each of them to put on; and when they were dressed they all went down to the sea-shore.
There is one of them clad in scarlet, such scarlet as I have never seen, and two are clad in green, and they have girdles round their waists which might well pay an earl's ransom.
He saw the calm attendants wait About their lord in careless state, Heard women’s girdles chime in sweet Accordance with their tinkling feet.
Moreover, for the sons of Aaron thou shalt prepare linen tunics, and girdles and mitres for glory and beauty: 28:41.
The daughter of the Natchez sitting in majesty, clothed in many-colored robes of shining feathers crossed and recrossed with girdles of serpent-skins and of wampum".
The girdles on the ventral side, ea and af, are narrower than gb and bh on the dorsal side.
The girdles on the dorsal side are seldom as broad as gb and bh, the valve extending over a great part of the dorsal side to g' and h'.
The girdles on one side, ea and af, are narrower than gb and bh on the other side.
He was dressed in his Holland shirt, with great stockings, his garters hung round with shillings, and had girdles of wampom upon his head and shoulders.
She had a kersey coat, covered with girdles of wampom from the loins upward.
When she had dressed herself, her work was to make girdles of wampum and beads.
For a time the procession fluctuated through the air, where the girdlesyet sparkled.
The young man begged them to give him these girdles, and they did so; but the next moment they had vanished, and the girdles too.
She had no trinkets of chains then, no head-tires, no gaudy sandals, no girdles more worth looking at than the wearers.
They wear circlets around their heads made of coral, turquoise, amber, agate, jade or other precious stones, with five or six necklaces and enormous girdles of the same material.
This is the great circle, drawn by God, and discovered by conscience, which girdles my sphere, including all the smaller circles, and itself included by none of them.
You meet the same spirit which fells the forest, girdles the land with railroads, annexes Texas and covets Cuba, Nicaragua, all the world.
The men wear girdles usually made of the wool of the opossum, and a sort of tail of the same material is appended to this girdle, both before and behind, and seems to be the only part of their costume suggested by any ideas of decency.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "girdles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
