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girdled
1. The sleeveless, low-necked silk tunic, girdled at the waist with a cloth-of-gold cincture, was a duplicate of the queen's night-garment
2. The other was dressed like them in a white, girdled khalat and a flowing head-dress which, banded about the temples with a triple circlet of braided camel-hair, fell to his shoulders
3. Somewhere, a mile or so to the northwest, Zogar Sag's village stood girdled with thick woods
4. A low hill pitched upward, girdled and covered with thick trees and bushes
5. With walls and towers were girdled round:
6. stream that spilt over the lip of a small waterfall into a medium sized pool girdled with
7. pleasant rainforest pool girdled by monolithic boulders covered in lichen and moss, while
8. the girdled pool within the heart of the great bamboo clump where I had seen people from
9. We found a beautiful rock pool where the fresh cold water swirled and girdled around us
10. was dense and alive with colour and girdled round by huge reddish granite ranges
11. beams of a half moon and the waterhole lying like a mirror on the ground girdled by frosty
12. There is no whine of the panther, no whistle of the catbird, nor any invention of the devilish Mingoes, that can cheat me! I have heard the forest moan like mortal men in their affliction; often, and again, have I listened to the wind playing its music in the branches of the girdled trees; and I have heard the lightning cracking in the air like the snapping of blazing brush as it spitted forth sparks and forked flames; but never have I thought that I heard more than the pleasure of him who sported with the things of his hand
13. Seen in the brook, once more, was the shadowy wrath of Pearl's image, crowned and girdled with flowers, but stamping its foot, wildly gesticulating, and, in the midst of all, still pointing its small forefinger at Hester's bosom!
14. Over the laurel bushes and rhododendrons, I could see a long, many-gabled mansion, girdled with ivy, and toned to the warm, cheery, mellow
15. Mammy pulled and jerked vigorously and, as the tiny circumference of whalebone- girdled waist grew smaller, a proud, fond look came into her eyes
16. Ladies, Don’t Mind Stephen!” but she had also been chosen to represent the Spirit of She had looked most fetching, wearing a modestly draped Greek robe of white cheesecloth girdled with red and blue and holding the Stars and Bars in one hand, while with the other she stretched out to the kneeling Captain Carey Ashburn, of Alabama, the gold-hilted saber which had belonged to Charles and his father
17. Four months or so of torturing ecstasy in his society—of "pleasure girdled about with pain"
18. She was girdled with cornflowers, and her eyes were strangely puzzled and bright
19. These trees were alive and apparently flourishing at midsummer, and many of them had grown a foot, though completely girdled; but after another winter such were without exception dead
20. He wears a beaver hat and swallow-tailed coat, girdled with a sailor-belt and sheath-knife
21. Then, again, in mountainous countries where the traveller is continually girdled by amphitheatrical heights; here and there from some lucky point of view you will catch passing glimpses of the profiles of whales defined along the undulating ridges
22. By adroit management the wooden float is made to rise on the other side of the mass, so that now having girdled the whale, the chain is readily made to follow suit; and being slipped along the body, is at last locked fast round the smallest part of the tail, at the point of junction with its broad flukes or lobes
23. The house itself was large and comfortable, old enough to be dignified, and girdled with maple groves and orchards
24. Her kerchief had slipped off her curly hair, and she stood near a post in the middle of the prisoner’s division, shouting something, accompanied by quick gestures, to a gipsy man in a blue coat, girdled tightly below the waist
