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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of girt.

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Examples

  • The dog, for instance, exists as the great, shaggy Newfoundland or St. Bernard, or as the tight girted greyhound, as the petted poodle or the despised "yellow dog;" but in every case he is a dog, and not a wolf, and his fellow dogs recognize him as such, too.

    Evolution An Investigation and a Critique Theodore Graebner 1913

  • It was strange to see how listless they were about the meal, even though Providence itself put it into their hands; to note how the yellow-girted slaves scudded amongst them, serving out the loaves, themselves had grown, harvested, and baked; slipping from group to group, rousing, exhorting, administering to a helpless throng that took their efforts without thought or thanks.

    Gulliver of Mars 1905

  • As we sauntered forward I noticed all about lesser circles where the yellow-girted ones were drawing delighted laughter from good-tempered crowds by tricks of sleight-of-hand, and posturing, or tossing gilded cups and balls as though they were catering, as indeed they were, for outgrown children.

    Gulliver of Mars 1905

  • All were girted in every way, but Arjuna was especially noble in form and feature.

    National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

  • "That's right, Burns, take off my last summer coat," he added, still in a whisper to me as the Burns parent struggled out of the unendurable gift garment and thus gave a signal that whipped off every coat on the left side of the walk in the twinkling of an eye, to the evident distress of the tightly girted and uncomfortable but more formal feminine members of the Settlement contingent.

    The Heart's Kingdom Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

  • As we sauntered forward I noticed all about lesser circles where the yellow-girted ones were drawing delighted laughter from good-tempered crowds by tricks of sleight-of-hand, and posturing, or tossing gilded cups and balls as though they were catering, as indeed they were, for outgrown children.

    Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Linden Arnold 1896

  • It was strange to see how listless they were about the meal, even though Providence itself put it into their hands; to note how the yellow-girted slaves scudded amongst them, serving out the loaves, themselves had grown, harvested, and baked; slipping from group to group, rousing, exhorting, administering to a helpless throng that took their efforts without thought or thanks.

    Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Linden Arnold 1896

  • There were some little fields girted and squeezed by a forest.

    The Red Badge of Courage 1895

  • There were some little fields girted and squeezed by a forest.

    The Red Badge of Courage 1895

  • There were some little fields girted and squeezed by a forest.

    The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 1895

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