engirds

Do they not raise, for some pieces of silver, the vesture of chastity, that robe so full of mystery, which respects the being it embellishes and engirds her without touching?

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Praise be thine as theirs whose tragic brows the loftier leaf engirds

Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

How precious, then, in the loneliness of sorrow, is that faith which bids us look up and see how near is God, and feel what divine companionship is ours, and know what infinite sympathy engirds us, -- what concern for our good is, even in this darkness, shaping out blessings for us, and distilling from this secret agony everlasting peace for the soul.

The Crown of Thorns : a token for the sorrowing 1847

Do they not raise, for some pieces of silver, the vesture of chastity, that robe so full of mystery, which respects the being it embellishes and engirds her without touching?

The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete Alfred de Musset 1833