Significats de girt round en anglès

But sex has always been girt round with taboo, irrespective of culture.

It was girt round by a belt of granite rocks, or by wide tracts of sand.

Yon cottage homes girt round with verdant green.

The man rowing the boat was stark naked, except for a piece of red cloth girt round his loins.

He was girt round the loins with a yellowish-red cloth; his body, from head to foot, was covered with ashes.

They strike right through the building into the ground beneath, and their roots are all girt round with hot-water pipes.

Pondicherry Lodge stood in its own grounds, and was girt round with a very high stone wall topped with broken glass.

It is girt round by chalk hills, which, on the two sides mentioned, look down on it from across the stream.

This immense mass, firmly girt round with hills, enclosed a space which was fitted to be the theatre of great events.

Nothing can be simpler than his costume-sandals ,andan unbleached, undyed blanket, crossed over one shoulder and girt round the waist.

The king came aboard again, bringing four principal women along with him, who were attired in silken gowns, overlapped in front, and girt round them.

In an island where we find ourselves so girt round by mystery within mystery, and taboo within taboo, as this, every key is worth trying.

'We must either fall on, or be gradually girt round and starved out.

Girt round with murmuring trees;

" Girt round with mine enemies, Miss Eleanor," he laughed, "and I slay them with the jaw bone of an ass."

"I have money," the youth replied; "in the bands of this frock, which I wear girt round my body, there are four hundred gold crowns."