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Example sentences for "girdle"

Lexicographically close words:
girded; girder; girders; girdeth; girding; girdled; girdler; girdles; girdling; girds
  1. This frame goes round the four sides of the small cuvettes, and may be placed indifferently upon all their sides; in the other cuvettes, the girdle extends only over the two large sides, because they cannot be turned up.

  2. Sometimes the girdle was placed nearly under the arms; sometimes it passed to the opposite extreme, and was suffered to fall upon the hips.

  3. We could mention some cases in which the girdle is omitted altogether, without any detriment to the gracefulness of the figure.

  4. The heavy rolled girdle on the hips is no improvement.

  5. It was my custom to pass the evening in the Duke’s wardrobe, where Domenico Poggini and his brother Gianpagolo were at work upon that golden cup for the Duchess and the girdle I have already described.

  6. This was a girdle three inches broad, which used to be made for brides, and was executed in half relief with some small figures in the round.

  7. His smock was tattered with use, and a ragged girdle was bound about his waist.

  8. She was dressed in a simple robe of gleaming whiteness with a girdle of ruddy gold, and holding out her hands she cried in quivering tones: "Am I not fair as the Dream Maiden, young Kasyan?

  9. Seeing that Whirlwind had now become weak to extremity he took his sharp sword from his girdle and cut off his head with it.

  10. Her maids dressed her in a simple robe of white lawn, with a girdle of gold, and then she went to the Great White Tsar, who sat at breakfast with Golden Tress, and told him what she had seen across the sea.

  11. When he has drunk well, he will grow weak, and then you must take his sharp sword from his girdle and hew off his head with it.

  12. Each Bedouin carries in his girdle a pair of small pincers, to extract the thorns from his feet, for they have no shoes, and use only a sort of sandal made of a piece of camel’s skin, tied on with leathern thongs.

  13. In my girdle I had eighty piastres, (about £4.

  14. The children watched him until he disappeared in the woods, and when at last they turned from the window, the scone on the girdle was burned to a cinder and had to be given to the chickens!

  15. She bustled about the kitchen, mixing, spreading them on the girdle over the fire, keeping the coals bright, and turning them out nicely browned on the mixing-board.

  16. At the words, a man of about forty, tall and sinewy, clad in a short cape of white albatross feathers, and with a girdle of nautilus shells interspersed with red coral tied around his waist, came forth to the summons.

  17. One breadth of native cloth did duty for an apron or girdle round her waist and hips.

  18. Her great brown limbs, smooth and glossy as pearl, were set off by a narrow girdle or waistband of green and scarlet leaves, twined spirally around her.

  19. The other was stouter, and perhaps forty or thereabouts; he wore a short cape of white albatross plumes, with a girdle of shells at his waist, interspersed with red coral.

  20. Then appear the men and youths without weapons, but in full war-costume, the girdle freshly marked with the number of slain enemies.

  21. Round his loins was placed a strong girdle F G, to the iron ring of which at G was fastened a rope by means of a hook.

  22. A placed upon a scale, the four ropes of the scale being fixed to a rope or chain attached to his girdle in the manner already described.

  23. And now she drew from her girdle the keen black dagger.

  24. One of the numerous pointed crowns found in the royal treasure had been pressed upon his long tangled locks, and over his ragged old purple mantle and penitent's girdle was flung a magnificent new cloak of the same royal stuff.

  25. THE FIFTH GATE At the fifth gate, the warder stripped her; he took off the girdle that encompasses her waist.

  26. At the fifth gate, the warder stripped her; he took off the girdle that encompasses her waist.

  27. Stooping hastily to ascertain what it might be, she recognized the girdle her daughter had worn when she had parted from her in Sicily.

  28. One day Admete heard a traveler describe a girdle worn by Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons, and was immediately seized by the desire to possess the ornament.

  29. The virtues of Alfred are the virtues that have made it possible for the Teutonic tribes to girdle the globe.

  30. As her drum-taps, greeting the rising sun, girdle the world, so do her lighthouses flash protection to the mariner wherever the hungry sea lies in wait along rocky coasts, the round world over.

  31. Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is about thy loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

  32. This wicked people, that will not hear my words, and that walk in the perverseness of their heart, and have gone after strange gods to serve them, and to adore them: and they shall be as this girdle which is fit for no use.

  33. And I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it about my loins.

  34. And I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle out of the place where I had hid it and behold the girdle was rotten, so that it was fit for no use.

  35. Jeremias Chapter 13 Under the figure of a linen girdle is foretold the destruction of the Jews.

  36. Ere the captive could speak, he who stood next him snatched an unsheathed knife from the girdle of one of the Dry Tree, and quick as lightning thrust it into his fellow's belly, so that he fell dead at once amongst them.

  37. Arrived at the centre of that part of the vault where the skeleton crowd was thickest, this horrible cortege halted, while one of the masked personages undid from his girdle a large bunch of keys.

  38. No, I have nothing of that sort in here,"--and taking a key from a small chain that hung at his girdle he unlocked the casket.

  39. Just then his father came in, and seizing the girdle restored the child to his natural shape.

  40. Let him make For me a fan, all decked with beauteous gems, With rubies red and pearls; and after that A girdle virginal.

  41. His girdle bright Was cloth of tjindi, fringed with agates rare.

  42. Ready to treasure the girdle of gold,[183] The field with violence shakes.

  43. The girdle of gold would seem to have been the prize conferred upon the victor in a race.

  44. Please let me see you put the girdle on again, before I go; and say you forgive me.

  45. Dodo instantly undid the clasp, and the girdle fell on to the carpet.

  46. His eyes wandered unsteadily from her face to her bosom, and down to her waist where the great girdle gleamed and shone.

  47. Since she was not going to dance more than a step or two she had put on all the jewels she could manage to attach to herself, including the girdle of great emeralds that Waldenech had given her.

  48. The girdle contained a little iron box and some pieces of gold.

  49. In the iron tobacco-box in his girdle he had the three bank-notes.

  50. Then she brought him a flowing black robe with a girdle at the middle; and when he was dressed, he looked fully as wise as either Socrates or Sophocles.

  51. He dressed in a long black mantle with a girdle corded about the middle, and he walked slowly and majestically, and talked no more than he was obliged to.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "girdle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.