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Definition of Engirdled
1. engirdle [v] - See also: engirdle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engirdled
Literary usage of Engirdled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wessex by Clive Holland (1906)
"nearly all irregularly built places almost engirdled by water. Anything there is
of squalor about the little seaport is softened by distance, ..."
2. Russian Politics by Herbert Metford Thompson (1896)
"... now become the middle portion of the Russian population, it is engirdled, ...
partially engirdled, by races that have not been in any way assimilated. ..."
3. Russian Politics by Herbert Metford Thompson (1896)
"... now become the middle portion of the Russian population, it is engirdled, ...
partially engirdled, by races that have not been in any way assimilated. ..."
4. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1920)
"That hunger for affection too long withheld was for the time displaced by an
almost physical sense of an implacable past which still engirdled her. ..."
5. The American Revolution by George Otto Trevelyan (1912)
"inroad, were cooped up helplessly within forts and block-houses, or on small
islands in a sheet of water engirdled by an unfriendly shore. ..."
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