How To Use Gird In A Sentence

Pressure difference adhesion and a kinetic pectoral girdle thus allow the clingfish to exploit a food resource unavailable to many other predators.
A log cabin, and, occasionally, a stable and corn-crib, and a field of a dozen acres, the timber girdled or "deadened," and fenced, are enough for his occupancy. The Frontier in American History
His midriff was protected by a drape of chainmail covering a leather girdle and loincloth.
Black belts were strapped tightly across the waists and two of the men had an additional girdle across their broad chests from top left to bottom right.
Sport is played not through statistics, but through raw passion, ungirdled emotion and pure unadulterated spirit.

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All over Europe, the fringes of suburbia are blighted by the dreary apparatus of industry - undecorated sheds and dour offices in glum lots girdled by sterile acres of parking.
These animals also have relatively large shoulder girdles, possibly to provide muscle attachment to support the weight of the huge head.
The block is still just a skeleton of girders.
Fires lighted at intervals formed a girdle of flame round the base of the mountain, so that when darkness fell, Maunganamu appeared to rise out of a great brasier, and to hide its head in the thick darkness. In Search of the Castaways
Often, the muscles used to maintain body posture are affected, namely the muscles in the neck, shoulders, and pelvic girdle, including the upper trapezius, scalene, sternocleidomastoid, levator scapulae, and quadratus lumborum.
A proper warm-up and stretching of all major muscle groups is necessary, with emphasis towards the entire hip girdle and shoulder girdle , including the pecs.
Nestled in terra cotta, thick, gutsy prosciutto barely girdles hunks of luxuriantly gooey mozzarella bocconcini that have been roasted into a delicious taffy, the perfect bonbon to chomp on during a film by the Taviani brothers.
It was a beautiful, yet plain sea-green gown with a small girdle.
Avoid tight-fitting clothing or undergarments that restrict blood flow at the waist, groin & legs (e.g. girdles, stockings & socks).
Such girdles, too, like the binding fiber with which a camisk is usually secured on a girl, may be used to bind her. Magicians of Gor
An activist, our God had little time to sit idly, "pavilioned in splendor and girded in praise! Michael Henry Adams: Grace Bromm's All-American Style
This is the first bike that will exploit the Renovatio's frameless concept: The 132-cubic-inch, S&S-built engine is a load-bearing structural element, suspended like a girder between the stupendous front engine mount and rear pivot. The Master of Machine-Age Motorcycles
By means of his sharp hunting-knife he "girdled" this tree near the ground, and then higher up, so that the length between the two "girdlings," or circular cuttings, was about four feet. Popular Adventure Tales
A good name is better than a golden girdle .
He glanced briefly about him before continuing along the scattered fringe of trees that girdled it.
The romantic picture of the plucky David girding himself against the brutish Goliath is dangerously misleading.
Botanists have long noted the phenomenon of sap accumulation in tissue above a girdle or major wound in the woody stems of plants.
After a long tough winter, many grizzlies, black bears, wolves and cougars are girding themselves for the onslaught of "sportsmen" wielding high-powered rifles in search of "trophies. Chris Genovali: The Cruelest Month for British Columbia's Coastal Carnivores
Sand-engirded, alone, then first she knew desolation. Poems and Fragments
If St. Michael had stepped down from a church window, leaving the dragon slain, he would have looked no otherwise than she, all gleaming with steel, and with grey eyes full of promise of victory: the holy sword girdled about her, and a little battle-axe hanging from her saddle-girth. A Monk of Fife
Couple of months ago we had this ironworker falls off a girder, Finch has to break the news to the wife. TIME TO MURDER AND CREATE
They were all removed from the base of the tower where the metallic girders intercross, police said. Investigators target Pana Wave over minor vehicle offenses
Mr Bracegirdle, from Rochdale, says he was dismayed when staff told him flowers were no longer accepted.
His wife, who stood much in awe of him, durst not reply, but her mother bustled up to her support, with arms disposed as if they were about to be a-kimbo at the next reply. — “I gied them to an acquaintance of mine, Gibbie Girder; and what about it now?” The Bride of Lammermoor
To do this you need to make marks, called layout marks, on the ledger and girder that show where each joist will be located.
Maidens with water-jars on their heads which might have been dug up at Pompeii; priests with broad hats and huge cloaks; sailors with blue shirts and red girdles; urchins who almost instinctively cry for a "soldo" and break into the Tarantella if you look at them; quiet, grave, farmer-peasants with the Phrygian cap; coral-fishers fresh from the African coast with tales of storm and tempest and the Madonna's help -- make up group after group of Caprese life as one looks idly on, a life not specially truthful perhaps or moral or high-minded, but sunny and pleasant and pretty enough, and harmonizing in its own genial way with the sunshine and beauty around. Stray Studies from England and Italy
If these are not removed they can girdle the tree, cutting into the trunk and eventually killing the tree.
The pit is reinforced with a lattice of steel girders from top to bottom.
The distinctives of Reformed theology and practice are useful only to the degree that they undergird and clarify the gospel, the evangel.
At Vatopedi, it's the camel-hair girdle worn by the Virgin Mary and a four-inch fragment of the Cross. A Fossil With Flesh
According to their research, the droplets must have condensed from the cooling vapor cloud that girdled the Earth following the impact.
This is due to a folding of the blastodermic wall by what is called the "girder," a plug-shaped growth of Rauber's "roof-layer. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
Four men were arrested at the scene following the discovery of the cigarettes, which were smuggled into the country in steel girders.
In the illustrations, h, m, and b are the high, intermediate, and low pressure cylinders of one set of engines; as will be seen, each cylinder is on a separate frame connected by girders; directly above the cylinders are the two low and the one high pressure air cylinders, b¹, m¹, and h¹ respectively. Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891
Now she was vested for the anointing; buskins, sandals and girdle put on, and over all a tabard of white sarsnet, the vestment called the colobium sindonis.
These segments were supported by steel truss girders on falsework.
Stems may be girdled just above the soil line; tissue thus damaged may appear cracked or cankered.
Because Quakerism is a decentralized faith, Quakers don't have a common doctrine or creed, though the belief that there is "that of God in everyone" undergirds many Quaker traditions, such as opposition to war and concern for the least powerful. Eileen Flanagan: Quakers Advocate Living in 'Right Relationship' with Creation
But for those who missed it all, I can tell you that the stewardesses were very hard-bodied, their girdles twanged satisfactorily when tweaked by hard-bodied men and they did have a lot of sex in exotic locations. TV review: Garrow's Law; Come Fly With Me - the Story of Pan Am
Under her silken sarong would have been an inner garment of white cotton, about her waist a zone of beaded cloth held in front by an oval plate, and over all would have been thrown a long, loose dressing-gown, called the kabaya, falling to her knees and fastened down the front to the silver girdle with golden brooches. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines
Tonal mists begird the senses like thick, expanding fog, as the sparse calls of exotic birds and invisible creatures enhances the presence of this tenebrous abode of tranquility.
After that He poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith He was girded.
(Figs. 1 and 2) But inarching of the native chestnut is for the most part unsuccessful because the fungus grows too rapidly and girdles the stem, killing the parts above before the inarched tips of the suckers can take hold. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947
At their first major encounter, Emperor Yazdegird came off the better.
Everything, every single nut, bolt, screw, girder, steel cable, had to be lifted to those heights by helicopter, and winched down.
It had warped me into a suffocating, totalizing essence, pinned me with the girders of weakness, monstrosity, and leprosy that supported their dichotomous construction of Homosexual.
'May the foul fiend, booted and spurred, ride down his bawling throat with a scythe at his girdle,' quoth Albert Drawslot; 'here have I been telling him that all the marks were those of a buck of the first head, and he has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler! Waverley — Volume 1
About 35 serene green miles later, you're in Leiden, a university city girdled by canals and dominated by the gothic ostentation of its 15 th-century church.
Smiling and bashful she stood there in her clinging skirt and wampum-broidered vest, her slender, rounded limbs moulded into soft knee-moccasins of fawn-skin, and the Virgin's Girdle knotted across her thighs in silver-tasselled seawan. The Hidden Children
You can admire the floors in original cooked tiles and the interesting girders of the ceiling, divided by wood worked lacunars.
The stair is further supported by the girders at each floor, and by a steel arm that projects from the south wall at each landing.
Trouser legs are down to ankles and kaftans are girded with a long piece of rope.
The first thing to do is to measure the distance between your ischial bones, otherwise known as your sit bones, which make up part of the pelvic girdle.
Yet is there no competent Judge that findeth them wanting in those Ancient ones, and that doth not much more admire that smoothly equall neatnesse, continued sweetnesse, and flourishing comelinesse of Catullus his Epigrams, than all the sharpe quips and witty girds wherewith Martiall doth whet and embellish the conclusions of his. Of Bookes.
If you girdle the base of the tree exposing the cambium layer, the tree will die.
And most of all, she didn't have to wear a girdle.
The movie also sketches in the five-year-long, globe-girdling voyage during which he collected the compendious data for his book, along with much peripheral information about his health (wretched), his relationship with his devoutly religious wife (strained) and his apparently never-ending connection to his dead 10-year-old daughter (feverish). Kurt Loder Reviews ‘Creation’ » MTV Movies Blog
III. i.91 (443,8) It was my deer] The play upon _deer_ and _dear_ has been used by Waller, who calls a lady's girdle, _The pale that held my lovely_ deer. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
He's quite right, sir," said Harry Girdwood, "you are inimitable as a shammer. Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series
Thereupon Ardashir fared straight for the bath and washed; after which he arrayed himself in the richest of robes of the apparel of the Kings of the Chosroes and girt his middle with a girdle wherein were conjoined all manner precious stones and donned a turband inwoven with red gold and purfled with pearls and gems. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
If pelvises are present, compare: the male pelvic girdle will have wider ischio-pubic ramus, while the female will have a defined ventral crest, a curved subpubic concavity, & a wide sciatic notch. Mordicai: crown me king!
The Blackfoot is a sworn and determined foe to all white men, and he has often been heard to declare that he would rather hang the scalp of a "pale face" to his girdle, than kill a buffalo to prevent his starving. Townsend Chapter 6
In the pectoral girdle, fused clavicles, or a furcula, are now known in many theropods.
Marry, thou hop-o'-my-thumb, happy wouldst thou be could thy head reach the captive Baron's girdle. '' The Waverley
As the cabin lurched back and forth and the sounds of rocket fire percussed the urgent, faltering rhythm of our right engine, I unfastened my seat belt, and, finding my center of gravity, rose from my seat, moving past aides shock still in their chairs, arms locked like girders against their arm rests in terror, and walked up the center aisle to the pilot's cabin. Hillary: Pledged Delegates "Just Like" Supers �� They Can Switch
7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. Think Progress » BREAKING: Military Will Request $100B For Iraq Next Year, Murtha Reveals
The shoulder girdle is formed by the scapulae (shoulder blades) and clavicles (collar bones).
Perelman's free-associative style spun fantasias out of girdle ads, tabloid tattle, sleazy pulp fiction and recipe prose.
I expected this to be uncomfortable -- I've tried "shapewear" before from other makers and it's been uncomfortable and girdle-like and the edges roll up whenever you sit down and UGH. The Daily Bitch
One of the pleasures of this novel is Cunningham's description of these intoxicating homes, from the "insistent glittery buzz" of a Manhattan party to a rambling mansion on the coast, "all fieldstone and gables, girded on three of its four sides by verandas; contrived, somehow, with a sense of absolute authenticity. Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles
Furthermore, as Sommers hammers at a variety of what she calls factual errors, she conveniently sidesteps an important assumption undergirding her attacks on liberal feminist scholars, which is that they have an agenda and she doesn't. "And Your Little Dog Too!!!" Christina Hoff Sommers Still Wants The Ruby Slippers
A good name is better than a golden girdle .
She put the 350 francs she got for each bottle in a biscuit tin under her marriage girdles in the armoire. WHITE LIES
Looking perhaps even more pewtyflushed in her cherry - derry padouasoys, girdle and braces by the halfmoon and Seven Finnegans Wake
Pulling his protector by the sleeve, ‘Mr. Herries — Mr. Herries,’ he whispered, eagerly, ‘ye have done me mair than ae gude turn, and if ye will but do me anither at this dead pinch, I’ll forgie the girded keg of brandy that you and Captain Sir Harry Redgimlet drank out yon time. Redgauntlet
Build up and aggrandise your city, for in so doing you will gird on power like a garment, and win allies for her. 209 Hiero
He delivered newspapers and worked at a steel firm, shaping girders for bridges for a little while.
The color may also be deepened by giving to the stone a rounded contour, both above and below the girdle, and facetting it in steps instead of in the brilliant form. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
So saying, the indignant Sage nevertheless plunged the contemned pieces of gold into a large pouch which he wore at his girdle, which Toinette, and other abettors of lavish expense, generally contrived to empty fully faster than the philosopher, with all his art, could find the means of filling. Quentin Durward
Thus, selection will necessarily favor a rigid body and limb girdles that act, as much as possible, by exerting force on the vertebral column.
Ambassadors and retinue from the Constantinopolitan King had kissed the ground before Omar and had delivered their embassage, they brought out the presents, which were fifty damsels of the choicest from Graecia-land, and fifty Mamelukes in tunics of brocade, belted with girdles of gold and silver, each wearing in his ears hoops of gold with pendants of fine pearls costing a thousand ducats every one. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Until there are some real human institutions undergirding their society, they need a semi-authoritarian center.
Segmented con-, Crete liners, precast tubes, lattice girders and liner plates. CORMORANT
In contrast to frogs, caecilians have a radically elongated vertebral column, no limbs or girdles, and relatively elaborate hypaxial musculature.
Note 15: Und zü einem male hatte man nüwe gemelde in dem core gemacht, und daruff was ir begirde also sere gerichtet, das si es als gerne hatte gesechen, das es ane masse was. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
The church lent its ideological support to the state; the state undergirded the authority of the church with its secular power; neither interfered in the other's affairs.
Avoid nicking the trunks of trees and shrubs; these cuts can injure or kill the plant by girdling the bark.
The soldiers girded themselves for battle.
To rouse themselves, they kick off the festivities with "Soldiers of the Cross, Arise," the bloodthirstiest tune in all of Christendom: "Seize your armor, gird it on/Now the battle will be won/Soon, your enemies all slain/Crowns of glory you shall gain. THE DOMINIONISTS / FAR RIGHT THREAT TO AMERICA
In the early morning my eyes always open on the Governor's handsome Mohammedan servant in spotless white muslin and red head-dress and girdle, bringing a tray with tea and bananas. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
The broken remains of the engine room form a short but convoluted route past twisted girders and scattered machinery.
Go through the derelict farm, through a sheepfold, and follow the Shalloch Burn which is crossed on a girder bridge about a quarter of a mile beyond the farm.
The structure currently consists of a 100-ft high framework of steel girders which towers over the town centre.
But all the titanic steel structure above and the unfloored bottom-chords and girders of the outer, or extension, arm of the cantilever had been swept bare of snow by the winter gales and left glistening with the glaze of the last shower of sleet. Out of the Primitive
When he saw himself in the orb, King Lorac Caladon saw a young warrior with a shining sword girded on, a king to save the land, a father to rescue his children from the dark terrors of the night. Dalamar the Dark
Only about seven stories of the north tower were still in place, the girders splayed.
The Canadians are teaching the Afghans how to "overbridge" the damaged bridge with a temporary span made of steel girders. Dose.ca Music briefs
It's possible to precast columns, column caps (also called bent caps), girders and beams, decks, complete bridge sub- or superstructures, complete bridge spans, and complete bridges.
He girded up his loin to face his competitor.
Because your shoulder girdle is an injury-prone area, take the following extra safety precautions when performing overhead presses.
Huc and Gabet's account of Lhassa is, I do not doubt, excellent as to particulars; but the trees which they describe as magnificent, and girdling the city, have uniformly been represented to me as poor stunted willows, apricots, poplars, and walnuts, confined to the gardens of the rich. Himalayan Journals — Complete
Do a similar layout on the girder, so that you know exactly where each joist crosses the girder.
I shall wear my girdle at home as girdles are socially unacceptable.
Males possess a larger spine on the first vertebra behind the pelvic girdle.
Then Barbara Bush is called in, and as she straddles Rush's face and looses the girdle, her two labia "unfurl" and reach "halfway down to her knees, like some big ball-less scrotum" ... Aimless, aimless
In the shoulder girdle, the serratus anterior and pectoralis minor muscles contract to abduct the scapula on the up phase.
Like all the best old towns, it folds into its landscape, the grid of terraces like contours girdling the hill.
The actual subject herself only appears once or twice; the ‘portrait’ is built up metonymically, in terms of the objects the mother once wore or used: chemises, girdles, shoes, lipsticks, false teeth.
Gentle rolling hills girdled the city about.
The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East
Gird thy sword upon thy thigh , O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
Some are, some aren't, depending on the philosophical basis which undergird those theories.
Ethical guidelines are needed to undergird national policies for information.
In dress he affected a purple robe with a golden girdle, bronze sandals, and a Delphic laurel-wreath, and in his manner he was grave and cultivated a regal public persona.
There they had me strip off behind a bush and put on a long line bra and girdle, a dress and wig.
And they go with a great pot made of wood or fine earth, and couered, tied with a broad girdle vpon their shoulder, which cometh vnder their arme, wherewith they go to begge their victuals which they eate, which is rice, fish, and herbs. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The long, white tunic the ghost wears is girded by a belt with a sprig of holly symbolizing winter tucked in it, but spring flowers hem the bottom of the tunic.
Let us then, for a little, ungird the wilderness-armor and hearken to the music of the harps of God.
He strode forward haughtily, taking his steps slowly with head thrown back, and as Frank gazed at him with heart throbbing painfully and heavily under the stress of his emotion, he could not help thinking how noble and fierce a warrior the Baggara looked, with his simple white robe, and how dangerous an enemy with the curved dagger in his girdle, and long, keen, crusader-like sword hanging from a kind of baldric from his right shoulder. In the Mahdi's Grasp
Those with a flat, narrow mount of Venus girdled by the Life Line are cold and unresponsive.
Right now I should be wearing a bra and girdle and at times do and if I can ever afford to live alone I probably will.
Yet the exhibit still reveals the intricate machinery that made the New Look work: corsets, brassieres and girdles re-emerged from decades past to discipline the female body into the latest couture creations.
Only the bridge made a connection between the two, breaking the skyline a quarter of a mile away with its dark skeletonic girders curving across the snows like the bones of a dead rainbow. The Sinkiang Executive
And he suggested that lives were saved by new steel girders and a sprinkler system.
{80} The Mendip Miners are observed by Mr. Smirke to determine the intervening distance of their pits by a throw of "the hache" two ways, the miner standing up to the girdle in the mine groof. Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean
Some insignia, such as hats, necklaces, belts, and girdles, are worn daily.
The use of variation in downstroke and, to a lesser degree, upstroke velocity to maneuver suggests that the evolution of the pectoral girdle was key to both the high power requirements of slow flight and the ability to maneuver during it.
However, Rosenberg wasn't as personally repugnant as the other top Brownshirts such as Heydrich, Funk, or Röhm himself, so Shirer girded his mental loins, smoked a pipeful of some awful tobacco, and left his apartment. Archive 2009-12-01
Equally troubling are the myths of geographical entitlement that undergird the reprehensible euphemism of ‘ethnic cleansing’.
But the captain arose and tightening his girdle tucked up his skirts and, after taking refuge with Allah from Satan the Stoned, clomb to the mast-head, whence he looked out right and left and gazing at the passengers and crew fell to buffeting his face and plucking out his beard. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
She could have had a Court of Virgins, or gone like Artemis, buskined through the thickets, with a hundred high-girdled nymphs behind her, all for her sake locked in chastity. Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
The fifth is a splashy fountain made from recycled steel girders.
Finish with a 12-mile mountain-bike ride on the serpentine Forest Service roads of the Chugach National Forest, near Girdwood.
Christians and Jews in the USA often cite the religious values girding our democracy. What's role of Islam in Egypt's future?
At her girdle hung a gold chain and cross, and she carried a handkerchief and a little prayer book bound in gold.
girding" them "with strength unto the battle," and in giving them a Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink
Such gems could be woven into important clothing, on belts and girdles, mounted as jewellery, or just collected for their own sake.
But worst of all, a blear-eyed old hag, girded round with a filthy apron, and wearing wooden clogs which were not mates, dragged in an immense dog on a chain, and "sicked" him upon Eumolpus, but he beat off all attacks with his candlestick. The Satyricon — Complete
A golden belt girded his waist, and the buckle was a mystic pentagram.
Germans are not the rod predestined for the chastening of these degeneracies, who knows whether we may not again, like our fathers in dim antiquity, have to gird on our swords and go forth to seek dwelling-places for our increase? Gems (?) of German Thought
The tube pressure state of the arch rib and the new techniques such as lifting and jacking-up longitudinal girder and beam using continuous jack.
Getting out to inspect, we discovered a yawning chasm in the middle of the bridge, with two girders going across it.
To stiffen the shallow vault, curved steel girders brace the two sides.
She reaches up her skirt, wriggles, yanks free an enormous, elastic, tan girdle.
For the tummy, use a panty girdle or a one-piece unitard body slimmer control top seamless in the back.
Steel girders have been used in its construction, which could allow for building of a second storey or mezzanine.
They walk steel girders high in the air unhampered by any fear of heights.
The white tontongee still girdled her loins; but Coomba's climate was her mantuamaker, and indicated more necessity for ornament than drapery. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
A close ruff and wristlets, a ruby and gold carcanet, and a jewelled girdle complete this rich and dignified dress.
With audiences in the US falling for the first time in a generation, Hollywood is girding itself for recession.
Botanists have long noted the phenomenon of sap accumulation in tissue above a girdle or major wound in the woody stems of plants.
Hydrophilos, having girded his sable cappa magna as high as to his cherubical loins, at solemn compline sat in his sate of wis-dom, that handbathtub, whereverafter, recreated doctor insularis of the universal church, keeper of the door of meditation, memory extempore proposing and intellect formally considering, recluse, he meditated continuously with seraphic ardour the primal sacra-ment of baptism or the regeneration of all man by affusion of water. Finnegans Wake
He had 'girdled' the trees for an acre or two around, preparatory to clearing The Crayon Papers
The electricity distributors are girding themselves for a similar crackdown. Times, Sunday Times
The researchers hope that their results will allow them to initiate studies in humans with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
The femur, in the thigh, articulates at the hip joint with the pelvic girdle, linking the legs to the vertebral column via the sacro-iliac joints.
The spiked pad ripped through the Daughter's blouse, and grated on the armoured contour-girdle underneath.
We found another such tank lying among the rubble of decking and girders.
Hanging from her girdle was a series of embroidered disks depicting a silver comb, a small golden boar, and other images from the myth. The Laird Who Loved Me
They together form what is called a cantilever; if you lay the letter V on its side, the open end will represent roughly the place where the arch and girders start from the tower. Chatterbox, 1906
Articulated ichthyosaurs demonstrate that the pectoral girdle was a robust construction with vertical clavicles [collar bones] and scapulae [shoulder blades], so there was a firm base for the articulation of powerful forefins and their musculature. Archive 2006-09-01
On the islet appeared a beautiful woman, clad in a watchet-coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews. Kenilworth
Most often this involved a segment of a girder web.
The sticharion and epitrachelion are held together by the zone (girdle), The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
He girded on his sword.
The chulter, an intricately woven apron, is worn below the black wool girdle or belt.
The girdle was designed to be wrapped several times around the waist. Times, Sunday Times
The slab is designed as a continuous plate supported by the floor beams and edge girders.
The astrologer was a little man, and seemed much advanced in age, for his heard was long and white, and reached over his black doublet down to his silken girdle. Kenilworth
A scrimpy woollen skirt is tied around the waist with a girdle, and over the shoulders is worn Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan
She pulled on a loose fitting chemise and a violet silk skirt over her girdle and stockings and left her room silently, in search of adventure.
A wrought-iron girder swing bridge at the Northern Entrance Lock may be the original installed by Brunel.
A column or girder which is out of line or plumb not only looks bad but may be required to be removed and corrected by the engineer. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs
(On catching sight of us, they attempted to seduce us with paederastic wantonness, and one wretch, with his clothes girded up, assaulted Ascyltos, and, having thrown him down upon a couch, attempted to gore him from above. The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction
They were large brown nuts or seeds, and hanging from his girdle with his penner and inkhorn they clashed when he walked. Puck of Pook’s Hill
Hanes No Hose allows femme fatales to go barelegged in sexy, strappy open-toe shoes while offering girdle-like control to just above the knee or below the lower calf.
In most cases, squirrels and twig girdlers do not pose serious harm to your trees.
Still there was no movement among all the arrased, girdered, pillared hosts. The Metal Monster
The struts of the high girders, which plunge down from the top like the tracks of a rollercoaster, are not absolutely straight.
But then again, she wore girdles and kept monogrammed hankies and Devonshire toffees in her handbag.
He unlaced her girdle rapidly; all the while his lips took in her face.
Permanent examples of anticyclones exist in the subtropics, where a belt of anticyclones girdles the world at latitudes between about 20 and 40 degrees.
The young miss goes out in a cold night, with bare arms and head and neck, and wafer-like slippers on her feet, with her waist engirded in cords and whalebones, and her load of burdensome skirts, and dances in high glee two thirds of the night; then, with a vail on her head and her under-garments not yet dry from the recent perspiration, she goes to her cold chamber and bed, to get a troubled sleep, and awaken in a fever which carries her to her grave. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanh
Such girdles, too, like the binding fiber with which a camisk is usually secured on a girl, may be used to bind her. âIt is to be mine, is it not? â asked Phoebe, eagerly, expectantly, hopefully. Magicians of Gor
Still she wears corsets and girdles, tight and uncomfortable.
It is necessary to resort to inarching when the roots as well as the trunk have been girdled.
They would strengthen the bridge without making major changes in the steel girder system above that might look out of place.
In the pelvic girdle the ilium corresponds to the scapula, the ischium to the coracoid, the pubis to the clavicle. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
She then donned the bracelets and anklets, clasped the necklace about her shoulders and the wrapped the girdle about her waist, fastening it with the knot of Auset.
As they floated after Tally, scraping past girders and jagged chunks of concrete, Aya and Frizz collected scratches like they were crawling through a thornbush. Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet
She was reared with her father and mother in honour and indulgence and learnt rhetoric and penmanship and arithmetic and cavalarice and all manner crafts, such as broidery and sewing and weaving and girdle-making and silk-cord making and damascening gold on silver and silver on gold, brief all the arts both of men and women, till she became the union-pearl of her time and the unique gem of her age and day. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
She also girds her advice with opinions from experts in the field.
Herpes zoster, commonly called shingles, means a girdle in the old sense of a belt.
The ties go way back and undergird the entire neocon movement and its traditional concern with Israeli affairs.
These things have collapsed buildings by taking out the steel girders in the center.

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