engirded

    Sand-engirded, alone, then first she knew desolation.

Poems and Fragments 2006

    Sand-engirded, alone, then first she knew desolation.

Poems and Fragments 2006

Far and wide in sunny splendor gleams the ice-engirded field,

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

Sand-engirded, alone, then first she knew desolation.

The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

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, Womanhood And Happiness. George Sumner Weaver