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Definition of Overgirded
1. overgird [v] - See also: overgird
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overgirded
Literary usage of Overgirded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Debt and Grace: As Related to the Doctrine of a Future Life by Charles Frederic Hudson (1859)
"... can imagine on the other side of God; and with our bark thus undergirded and
overgirded, we can trust immortal hopes, and immortal fears, too, upon it. ..."
2. John Milton: A Biography. Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical by Cyrus R. Edmonds (1851)
"... by your violent and hide-bound frost: but when the gentle west winds shall
open the fruitful bosom of the earth, thus overgirded by * Prose Works, ..."
3. Congregational History by John Waddington (1874)
"... by your violent and hide-bound frost; bat when the gentler winds shall open
the fruitful bosom of the earth thus overgirded by your imprisonment, ..."
4. The Land of the Forum and the Vatican; Or, Thoughts and Sketches During an by Newman Hall (1854)
"... by your violent and hide-bound frost; but when the gentle west winds shall
open the fruitful bosom of the earth, thus overgirded by your imprisonment, ..."
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