"Engirdle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that dance, While buoyant airs engirdle her; Her playful soul may love romance, But not a ...
— Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse • Richard Doddridge Blackmore
... His panther spring across the foaming salt, From martial sands to the cliffs of pallid chalk! There is no answer: seed of black defeat She then did sow, and France nigh unto death foredoom. See since that Seaman's epicycle sprite Engirdle, lure and goad him to the chase Along drear leagues of crimson spotting white With mother's tears of France, that he may meet Behind suborned battalions, ranked as wheat Where peeps the weedy poppy, him of the sea; Earth's power to baffle Ocean's power ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith |
