In the centre of the garden is a tamarind tree of enormous girth.

Her ample girth would have wrought sad havoc with that eighteen-inch waist now.

Godlike the poise that to your bearing lends The aspect of a tower that never totters; There's a divinity hath shaped your ends (Rough-hewn, perhapsespecially your trotters); Your ample chest, your generous girth Have no precise similitude on earth.

They had taken away his responsibilities as President of the Belgian Red Cross, so that now he had naught to do but to sit upon the lobby divan, of which he covered much, being of extensive girth.

The railway passed for many miles through the original forest, in which I observed very lofty trees, but none of an extraordinary girth.

And by this action was resolved for me a riddle with regard to the properties and uses of a prematurely stout man of fabulous girth, who had been dimly revealed to me, once or twice in the course of the voyage, through some long vista of the 'tween-decks, but seemed always to melt into air,or, more probably, oil,upon any advance being made to a closer inspection.

He was large of body and large of mind, with a most impressive girth and a voice that commanded attention without grating on supersensitive nerves.

He was a fine wreck, a little prematurely broken by dissipation, but not perhaps the less interesting on that account; tall, and somewhat of the jovial old English girth, with a face where good nature and good living mingled their smiles and glow.

Captain Michael Malet-Marsac alighted from his horse at the great gate of the Gungapur Jail, loosed girths, slid stirrup irons up the leathers to the saddle, and handed his reins to the orderly who had ridden behind him.

You in your cave of snows, we in our narrow girth Of need and sense, forever chafe and pine; Only in moods of some demonic birth Our souls take fire, our flashing wings untwine; Even like you, mad wind, above our broken prison, With streaming hair and maddened eyes uprisen, We dream ourselves divine; Mad moods that come and go in some mysterious way, That flash and fall, none knoweth

'Poor 'orse, this 'ere girth's too tight!'

The largest actual girth I have ever found at five feet from the ground is in the great elm lying a stone's throw or two north o

Whose one redeeming virtueone alone Is that you weigh a lot; Who will not thrive upon the common soil, So that the patient digger e'en must toil To raise a special mound Above the level ground That you may sun yourself upon the sloping earth And, like the wicked, wax to an uncommon girth.

When the lasso had all been thus prepared and eaten, the broad girth which had served so well in holding the pack-saddle on the mule's back, was cleaned, cooked, and eaten.

Horses ran madly about the field, with voided saddles, broken girths, and streaming mane.