21 collocations for belts

The man had crept along the cornice which belted the wall, on a level a few feet lower than the line of the window-sills.

Like its type, Yggdrasil, the Teutonic race seems to be threading the earth with the roots of universal dominion, and, true to hereditary instincts, it is belting the globe with its colonies, planting it, as it were, with slips from the great Mundane Ash, and throwing Bifröst bridges across oceans, in the shape of telegraph-cables and steamships.

The maiden made answer to the knight, that very dear to her was the use he had found for her ring, and the girdle with which he had belted his body.

In fact, I dragged him by the hair and belt the hull distancenot that I was exactly afraid, but nothin' is so lonesome when you have company.

toot the clarion, belt the drum!

The "lanchets," or flint slopes, which belted the escarpment at intervals of a dozen yards, took the less cautious ones unawares, and losing their footing on the rubbly steep they slid sharply downward, the lanterns rolling from their hands to the bottom, and there lying on their sides till the horn was scorched through.

I'm satisfiedWhat's that?" "That" was a horseman appearing suddenly among the cottonwoods that belted with a scattering grove the garden and the spring.

She, that paints horizons bright, Belting heaven and earth with light!

In fact, I dragged him by the hair and belt the hull distancenot that I was exactly afraid, but nothin' is so lonesome when you have company.

Thirdly, the racers, Ferdinand and Albert Edward, the latter belting Isabella with a surcingle whenever she faltered.

She explained to me that it has been indisputably proven that the earth is not only enveloped by those invisible electric currents which are now used instead of wires to carry telegraphic messages, but that this world of ours is also belted by countless psychic currents which go whirling round the earth" "What kind of currents?" "Psychic.

Does it breathe from the azure seas that belt the classic landor in the rippling cadence of untrodden streams amid lonely mountains?

Marvelously extensive, without the slightest appearance of waste or excess, they cover roofs and dome-tops and the base of every cliff, belt each spire and pyramid and massy, towering temple, and in beautiful continuous lines go sweeping along the great walls in and out around all the intricate system of side-cañons, amphitheaters, cirques, and scallops into which they are sculptured.

He saw it was useless to attempt to cross as before, and belting the sword about him, he dropped beneath the stringers and tried to make his way hand over hand.

Clare can a warrior's feelings know, And weep a warrior's shame; Buckle the spurs upon thy heel, And belt thee with thy brand of steel, And send thee forth to fame!'

There stood a tall, straight lad, booted and spurred, with a crop in one gloved hand, and the other raised to his fatigue cap in salute, and a smile on his bonny face,as trig in his leather belted bleu de ciel tunic as if ready for parade, and not a sign of war about him but his uniform.

Another similar light then appeared in the south-east, and although it was not yet connected with the first, it also seemed to be extending itself laterally, and in a moment the two luminous curtains united, forming a great semicircular band of pale, bluish-white radiance around the heavens, like a celestial equator belting a vast universe of stars.

she sighed, and forthwith belted the weapon about him.

He is belting the world with colonies, and forming agencies for his children wherever he can send the messengers of his commerce.

And she belted the cloak very graceful about her; and lookt very dear and pretty with her little bare feet; and her hair very lovely upon her shoulders, for she did wear alway in the Gorge the lining of my head-piece, and so had her hair dry and sweet.

I had been belting native crews on trading schooners between the Carolines and the Marquesas, and when ashore I had little opportunity for speaking to a woman of the type of Edith Herndon.

21 collocations for  belts