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Example sentences for "girthed"

Lexicographically close words:
girning; giro; girsu; girt; girth; girthing; girths; girts; gislatif; gislation
  1. By this time Sancho had fixed and girthed Rocinante's saddle, and Don Quixote having got on his back and the duke mounted a fine horse, they placed the duchess in the middle and set out for the castle.

  2. A side-saddle should be girthed very tightly, since a lady sits only by the saddle.

  3. When girthed tie the string surcingle over the saddle; besides holding the reins, it now prevents the flaps flying up.

  4. See that every man of the nine of you is on horseback at the east courtyard gate at dawn, with an ample pack of all things needed for a month's absence properly girthed on a led mule.

  5. The lords of the city stand girthed in ornaments.

  6. So one afternoon, when the cool breath of evening came between sunset and dusk, they had gone out together and for the first time in daylight he stood by the broad-girthed base of the walnut's mighty bole.

  7. The branches of the great walnut were etched against a sky that would have been bright with stars were it not that the moon paled them, and she gazed up with a hand resting lightly on the broad-girthed bole of the stalwart veteran.

  8. A newly-felled cedar lay conveniently near the trail, but its wide-girthed trunk stood high above the underbrush, and Brooke dragged up a big hewn-off branch to make a footstool before his companion sat down on it.

  9. They were old long before the white man first entered that wild mountain land, while, as he lay there in the scented dimness among their wide-girthed trunks, all that concerned the Canopus and its pounding stamp-heads slipped away from him.

  10. There were tears standing in the eyes of the huge-girthed man as he went heavily out of the room, and his shoulders were hunched forward as if he had suddenly passed from elderliness to old age.

  11. In places where I have found it impossible to have the panel satisfactorily fitted, I have removed it altogether, and girthed the saddle over thick felt numnah, a proceeding which answered perfectly.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "girthed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.