On another wall Ambrogio has depicted the prosperous city of Siena, girt by battlements and moat, with tower and barbican and drawbridge, to insure its peace.
The myriad swarms of insects gave him no peace by day or night, while the big moose was spending long peaceful hours far away at the edge of a tiny, wood-girt lake.
The Nihilist of Turgenieff's day had been a hedonist of the clubs, or a harmless weaver of scientific Utopias; the Nihilist of the new age was that most dangerous of men, a desperado girt with a fighting creed.
O Damsels girt in the gold Of Ilion, cry, cry ye, For him that is doomed of old To be lord of me!
Little or nothing could hope to pass unnoticed within the narrow circuit of those sea-girt rocks.
The change was frightful, from the sunny skies and balmy air of the lovely sea-girt Capreae.
In this modern democratic railway-girt world of ours, the ancient has no place; the huge Pyramids may remain forever, but we can no longer read them.
My sovereign, with the loving citizens, Like to his island girt in with the ocean Or modest Dian circled with her nymphs, Shall rest in London till we come to him.
We here create thee the first Duke of Suffolk, And girt thee with the sword.
Stoop then and set your knee against my foot; And in reguerdon of that duty done I girt thee with the valiant sword of York.
The dress of the women consists of a square piece of dressed deer-skin, girt round them by a cloth or worsted belt, and fastened over their shoulders by leather straps; a jacket of leather, and cloth leggings.
I thought much less of those five great corpses than of the gentle and loving boy who had girt up his heart to conquer fear, and who tried to think evil of himself for the comforting of his brethren's souls.
Then the king commands him to be girt with a sword, and laying his right hand on his head, utters certain words as if praying in so low a voice that he is not heard.
Then, coming forth from the woods, they laid siege to thy castle, and for two days they girt us in and shot hard against us, with such numbers as were a marvel to see.
High, leafless trees girt it in on three sides, with a thick undergrowth of holly between their trunks.
Faced by an army, and girt in by fire, were six men and one woman; but some of them were men so trained to danger and so wise in war that even now the combat was less unequal than it seemed.
He was first startled at the crowded appearance of the Simcoe's deck, and at the unwonted guise of his father, who came to the gangway conspicuously girt with a sword.
With heart as strong as fate, Brave worker, girt and shod, Adore!
With heart to conquer fate, Brave worker, girt and shod, Work on!
He was habited in the brown garb of his order, his waist girt with a knotted cord.
George, as he rose in the gondola to catch a last glimpse of the Piazzetta, "sea girt city!
So strip I did, and was girtwith the belt under my armpits, tied to a rope, and slipped over the side in fear and trembling.
I sit with my loins girtand my soul, I hope, shriven.
Those which were in the hals and vpon the staires had swords girt vnto them, and they in the courtes had lances, and betwixt euery one of them a hargubusher.
Girt with a Zone of flashing gold beneath His breast, and compass'd round about his brow With triple arch of everchanging bows, And circled with the glory of living light And alternation of all hues, he stood.
