In the rich sunset see how brightly glow Yon cottage homes, girt round with verdant green!

And in her eyes was yet that soft and radiant look, but nought said she until Beltane stood armed from head to heel, until she had girt the great sword about him; then she set her hands upon his shoulders: "Beltane," said she soft-voiced, "thou didst yearn for thy mother, so is she come to thee at last, dear son!"

The country had no habitant alive, And when I found no human being left, I cast away all fear, and girt my loins, And in the name of God went boldly forth, Armed for the strife.

A new world was thus opened to intellectual adventure at the very time when the keel of Columbus had turned the first daring furrow of discovery in that unmeasured ocean which still girt the known earth with a beckoning horizon of hope and conjecture, which was still fed by rivers that flowed down out of primeval silences, and which still washed the shores of Dreamland.

2 'Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear; And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old In bearded majesty, appear.

Towards evening, a fresh breeze sprang up from the east; and before sun-set it blew so violently, that Roger and his companion had the greatest difficulty in keeping their little vessel out at sea, and preventing its being dashed on the coral reefs that girt that 'stern and rock-bound coast.'

The ocean girt continent.

The tree "girts" eighteen and a half feet, and spreads over a hundred, and is a real beauty.

Scarce had the home-bred child of Nazareth seen Beyond the hills that girt the village-green, Save when at midnight, o'er the star-lit sands, Snatched from the steel of Herod's murdering bands, A babe, close-folded to his mother's breast, Through Edom's wilds he sought the sheltering West.

On June 10, 1915, his weight was thirty-four pounds, his height thirty-two inches, and his chest girt twenty-three inches.

Commerce was encouraged, and she girt her island around with those "wooden walls" which have proved England's impregnable defence against every subsequent combination of tyrants and conquerors.

It felt life's surges break, As, girt with stormy seas, his island lake, Smiling while tempests wake.

Though both shores were lined with dense forest, this particular portion possessed only several sparse clumps of shrubbery, which seemed like a breathing-space in this sea of verdurea gate in the magnificent bulwark with which nature girts her streams.

And there, within his little hut, the hermit Ambrose, Duke of Pentavalon that was, girt the armour upon Beltane the mighty, Duke of Pentavalon to be, if so God willed; first the gambeson of stuffed and quilted leather, and, thereafter, coifed hauberk and chausses, with wide sword-belt clamped with broad plates of silver and studs of gold, until my Beltane stood up armed in shining mail from head to foot.

30 I've heard of times (pray God defend us, We're not so good but He can mend us) When wicked ministers have trod On kings and people, law and God; With arrogance they girt the throne, And knew no interest but their own.

They girt their baldrics about them, and taking their lances, spurred after the fugitives.

2 'Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear; And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old In bearded majesty, appear.

" With that, I girt up my breeches anew, and slung the fish tighter round my neck, and began to climb up through the water-slide.

Somewhat ahead, the open river, where the two arms that girt the Old City reunited in what was now a vast lake!