Does not this fact, as well as the broader fact that different varieties of the Plantain and Banana girdle the earth round at the Tropics, and have girdled it as long as records go back, hint at a time when there was a tropic continent or archipelago round the whole equator, and at a civilisation and a horticulture to which those of old Egypt are upstarts of yesterday?

But by and by a great occasion arisesa revival which sweeps the country, a reunion of two long-divided parties, an Ecumenical Council, a Chinese persecutionand suddenly there arises before the mind's eye a glimpse of that Church which girdles the world, whose emissaries are in every country, whose voices speak in every tongue.

When additional land was required for cultivation the first step was to go into the forest in summer and "deaden" or girdle the trees on a given tract.

We of to-day, thanks to the melodious tea-kettle and inventive cerebral tissue of the youthful Watt, live in a perpetual hand-clasp, so to speak, and, by means of the flashing chain of light which girdles the globe are kept in touch with the world.

He had taken off his jacket, and was clad from top to toe in white, save for that streak of scarlet which tightly girdled his waist.

But now the blue wall is girdling the very crest of the hill; it stops, shrivels.

We showed one another our new beaded moccasins, and the width of the belts that girdled our new dresses.

Beyond the gate rises a dusty rocky slope extending to the outer wallsone of those grim intramural deserts that girdle Fez with desolation.

O the blush of happy beauty, Tell-tale of the heart's surprise: O the radiant light that girdled Field and forest, land and sea, When we all were young together, And the earth was new to me: Where are now the flowers we tended? Withered, broken, branch and stem; Where are now the hopes we cherished? Scattered to the winds with them.

He rose, girdled about him his dressing-gown, took up the candlestick, opened his door.

Superb clouds, of a royal sweep and amplitude, sailed through the brilliant sky; the woods that girdled the horizon were painted broadly and solidly in the richest colour upon an immense canvas steeped in light.

The water that girdled the houses and shops of London must, if anything, have only increased their previous witchery and wonder.

It will be better, especially for such work as lighting the gas range and boiling water, to girdle the kimono with a simple yet effective rope or tasselled silk, which may be drawn in or let out according to the amount of water one wishes to boil.

The first three tasks of the pioneer farmer were to build a cabin, to make a clearingburning the brush, cutting down the small trees, and girdling the largeand to plant corn.

Where a window-cord would hardly have sufficed to girdle Leonore, a necklace would have served her.

There were no flowers, no garden-beds; only a broad gravel-walk girdling a grass-plat, and this set in the heavy frame of the forest.

As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Its commodious residences had spacious lawns and gardens and fields; while the contents of its stores, as seen in advertisements that sometimes cover a broadside of the journals, and the number of ship-yards that are shown by the maps to have girdled the town, betoken its business activity.

No one ever felt more keenly than he the inseparable, the organic connection of all life; and with deep spiritual insight he provides nursery plays and songs by which the babe, even in his mother's arms, may be led faintly to recognize in his being one of the links of the great chain which girdles the universe.

The rock, in some places, quite overhung the bed of the Marchan, which half-girdles its base.

yet There on the floor, not a dozen feet away from her, shameful circlets of steel girdling both his wrists and his ankles, lay the one man for whom she knew now she cared the most in all the world, the man she had just betrayed into Chief Fleck's hands.

A few headlands, flat-topped and soil-covered, support clumps of cedar and pine; and up-curving tangles of chinquapin and live-oak, growing on rough earthquake taluses, girdle their bases.

Instead, there confronted us only the belt of dark, matted green girdling the huge bulk of Lakalatcha which soared skyward, sinister, mysterious, eternal.

To feel that he was part of all this; that, at rest in the iron ring girdling the capital, he was might in leash; that to-morrow he would be vengeance let loosethis was the sustaining, exulting thought that made the volunteer the best of soldiers.

These sands of Mogador are only a portion of a vast and almost interminable link, which girdles the north-western coast of the African continent, and is only broken in upon at short intervals, from Morocco to Senegal, like a shifting, heaving, and ever-varying rampart against the aggressions of the ocean.