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  • He landed with a thud worthy of his girth, and with a single bound the Wig-Beast was beside him, lifting him to his feet, holding him upright with one wiggy limb and slapping him with the other.†   (source)
  • The buttons of his waistcoat strain to confine his drumlike girth.†   (source)
  • He peeled his considerable girth off a stool to stand between me and the door, toward which I'd been slowly backing.†   (source)
  • A senior Weekday Warrior named Holly Moser sketched nude self-portraits in charcoal pencil, portraying her rotund form in all its girth.†   (source)
  • A huge man was next to him, more fat than muscle, his girth barely contained between the arms of the white plastic chair he sat in.†   (source)
  • Now it was perfume that clung to him like perfume, and he had a girth to match his height.†   (source)
  • The husband was a head taller and twice the girth of most men.†   (source)
  • As she left Camp Four at the front of Fischer's group, Lopsang abruptly pulled her aside and girth-hitched a hight of rope to the front of her climbing harness.†   (source)
  • A good 500-metre girth.†   (source)
  • The first trader filled a chair with his enormous girth; his every movement caused it to protest loudly.†   (source)
  • Still the gondola was sinking, dropping away from us, and its big balloon coming lower with it, its fat girth falling ever closer to our propellers.†   (source)
  • They use words like "girth" and "mass" and "trunk size."†   (source)
  • I once got a C in conduct, and he beat me with a saddle girth.†   (source)
  • Babette is tall and fairly ample; there is a girth and heft to her.†   (source)
  • Horace felt a familiar envy stirring and despite himself noted the girth and heft of Carl Heine's sexual organs.†   (source)
  • Now, upstairs, she changed into faded Levis and a green sweater, and fastened round her wrist her third most valued belonging, a gold watch; her closest cat friend, Evinrude, ranked above it, and surmounting even Evinrude was Bobby's signet ring, cumbersome proof of her "going-steady" status, which she wore (when she wore it; the least flare-up and off it came) on a thumb, for even with the use of adhesive tape its man-size girth could not, be made to fit a more suitable finger.†   (source)
  • Big Mama was a cheerful leviathan who lived in A Dorm—quick with a play on words, generally benevolent, and prodigious in girth.†   (source)
  • He walked back to the black horse, tightened the girth and pulled himself back into the saddle.†   (source)
  • His immediate surroundings had to be remade to accommodate his girth.†   (source)
  • That Mademoiselle LeFarge, she of the wide girth, thinks she is in any position to comment on figures is astounding, but I'm only hoping to escape with my head intact.†   (source)
  • As usual, the apron he wore was coated in flour and was stretched tight across his ample girth.†   (source)
  • Mum Olga puffed up to her full height and girth.†   (source)
  • Hax was carried in an open cart, but only his huge girth gave him away; he had been blindfolded with a wide black cloth that hung down over his face.†   (source)
  • It was a merry journey with Tom Bombadil trotting gaily beside them, or before them, on Fatty Lumpkin, who could move much faster than his girth promised.†   (source)
  • Blanca managed not to be sent back to school by making herself nauseated with hot brine, giving herself diarrhea from eating green plums, and bringing herself to the point of exhaustion by tightly fastening a horse's girth around her waist, until she had acquired a reputation of sickliness, which was precisely what she wanted.†   (source)
  • Inevitably, the chaplain's attention, as he cowered meekly before him, focused on Colonel Korn's midriff, where the shirttails bunching up from inside his sagging belt and ballooning down over his waist gave him an appearance of slovenly girth and made him seem inches shorter than his middle height.†   (source)
  • Local heroes at most high schools but paler characters at Ballou, they are clustered here and there, often identifiable by extreme height or girth.†   (source)
  • Grogan became a pathologist, famous as a teacher in his own right, and famous for his extraordinary girth.†   (source)
  • The other end was looped over a higher branch, two feet in girth and exactly twenty-one feet from the ground.†   (source)
  • "Oh, not at all, sir-Judge," replied the uniformed wide-girthed black man with a distinct British accent as he rose from the chair and extended his hand over the desk.†   (source)
  • Franklin was fat and stooped, his sloping girth larger than ever.†   (source)
  • Maggie had a small oak coffer wedged tight beneath her bed, but her girth was such that she couldn't bend down low enough to get it.†   (source)
  • She told him about the surprise he had waiting for him outside as she lightly fastened the girth and put on the bridle.†   (source)
  • For some miles there was nothing to be heard but the steady, cushioned clumping of the great-horses' hoofs, slight creaking from the girths and panniers, and, occasionally, some small animal scuttling out of our way.†   (source)
  • Catching Max's eye, he puffed out his cheeks to mock Mr. McDaniels's girth.†   (source)
  • They ran, but the creatures, despite their girth, were faster: They were landing all around them, with ugly wet sounds.†   (source)
  • For the next few minutes Shasta was at work, very cautiously to avoid jingling, while the Horse said things like, "Get that girth a bit tighter," or "You'll find a buckle lower down," or "You'll need to shorten those stirrups a good bit."†   (source)
  • And Mr. Santoro told me that he would not allow an Irishman to speak critically about his favorite professor's girth.†   (source)
  • I could almost hear Luzan's bird-high voice, a bizarre pitch that like much else about him was a little silly, a dress of maudlin order on a man of such girth and weight.†   (source)
  • A heavyset man, if you judged by the girth of the elbow resting on the window ledge.†   (source)
  • The Moabite king Eglon was disemboweled in his chambers, his girth so vast that the killer lost the knife in the folds of his fat.†   (source)
  • The red-bearded king was nearly seven-feet tall, with a barrelshaped girth that dwarfed even Beorg's.†   (source)
  • Since Oz was lacking in girth, Eugene had piled rocksall around him.†   (source)
  • She helped me loosen Preston's girth and led him to a stream near by.†   (source)
  • Yet in the weeks since Helen first mentioned it, the idea had put on girth in Theresa's imagination, until now she could almost begin to envision a future in which she and Old Chao were reconciled with Janis.†   (source)
  • A fudge-colored lady of majestic heft and girth squeezed into the seat beside me, filling the ambient space with the aroma of heliotrope.†   (source)
  • I passed several groves and let them go as not quite adequate—and then on a level meadow by a stream we saw the grandfather, standing alone, three hundred feet high and with the girth of a small apartment house.†   (source)
  • The guy who emerged from the building was about five feet tall, of enormous girth, with a strawberry-like nose, and his shoulders maybe a yard across.†   (source)
  • Shun the water holeTighten saddle-girth!†   (source)
  • On such a big ship-and his right hand poked the whistle into the girth of the steward-the little boy might have been lost.†   (source)
  • Wendel Manderly stepped forward and bowed as low as his girth would allow.†   (source)
  • Blankets and spare clothes were sacrificed to form ropes long enough to encircle Saphira's girth.†   (source)
  • It grew steadily as tributaries flowed into it from every side, feeding its bulging girth.†   (source)
  • Phillis is a homely woman, wide of girth, deep of voice.†   (source)
  • As Arya was cinching her saddle girth, Gendry came up to say that he was sorry.†   (source)
  • Despite his age and girth, he was still nimble enough, and clever as they came, but meek.†   (source)
  • Eragon paced out the girth of one tree and measured it at seventy feet.†   (source)
  • 'But not so many taipans of my size and girth, eh?†   (source)
  • Simeon Biggs, Big Sims, was famous in the firm for his midbody girth.†   (source)
  • Jarman Buckwell's scouts were tightening the girths on their saddles before setting out.†   (source)
  • Slowly, but inevitably, its girth widened and its tip rose high into the air.†   (source)
  • He sees that LaTisha has fallen down, her great girth slumped onto the concrete.†   (source)
  • Murtagh stood next to him, adjusting the girth on his saddle.†   (source)
  • "Her saddle girth burst whilst she was riding," said Ser Balman Byrch.†   (source)
  • Their great grey trunks were of mighty girth, but their height could not be guessed.†   (source)
  • She used her massive bulk to intimidate, but her girth was less daunting than her wit.†   (source)
  • Finally, they got the saddle on and the girth cinched.†   (source)
  • Among them is Ward Hill Lamon, the close friend with the beer-barrel girth.†   (source)
  • He reached down, undid the girth and dumped Dish's saddle on the ground.†   (source)
  • Smith pulled the saddle over Seabiscuit's withers and tightened the girth.†   (source)
  • He went over and tightened the girth on his saddle.†   (source)
  • The girl hooked her toes in the girth and held onto the saddle strings.†   (source)
  • The figure in black who was addressing him was of medium height, but of enormous girth.†   (source)
  • A young man, Merry thought as he returned the glance, less in height and girth than most.†   (source)
  • The crypt's low ceiling and soft uplighting accentuated the robust girth of the forty Doric columns required to support the vast stone floor directly overhead.†   (source)
  • His mind emptied as he stumbled backward and fell, just as the huge piece of the building landed on top of Teresa, pinning her body; only her head and an arm jutted out from under its girth.†   (source)
  • "I didn't have that girth in the butt."†   (source)
  • Etta adjusted her girth in the witness chair so that the hitching and sliding of her undergarments was heard— heavy nylons, a girdle purchased in Lottie Opsvig's shop, a back brace prescribed by a doctor in Bellingham for the sciatica she attributed to her farm days.†   (source)
  • That …. girth!†   (source)
  • His girth required Donal Noye to take apart a mail hauberk and refit it with leather panels at the sides.†   (source)
  • At first Merry and Pippin were struck chiefly by the variety that they saw: the many shapes, and colours, the differences in girth; and height, and length of leg and arm; and in the number of toes and fingers (anything from three to nine).†   (source)
  • Bea was no match for Bellagrog in girth or title, and thus the latter had ordered Mum about since arriving the previous year.†   (source)
  • His lordship's cushioned throne was wide enough to accommodate three men of common girth, yet Manderly threatened to overflow it.†   (source)
  • The girth of the largest Eldunari was so immense, the metal-bodied dragon was unable to wrap his arms all the way around it.†   (source)
  • Who's to trust in New York?" asked the short, dark man, laughing and poking his elbow into the wide girth of Albert Armbruster.†   (source)
  • She could hear Judith already leading Gulliver out of his stall, so she hurried to tighten the girth and now they too were ready.†   (source)
  • And wherever you looked you could see people tightening girths, putting on helmets, drawing swords, and throwing cloaks to the ground.†   (source)
  • If not the most intellectually outstanding of the four, Knox was certainly the most physically noticeable, having acquired over the years an immense girth, to the point of weighing nearly three hundred pounds.†   (source)
  • It was as if he had used his immense girth to advantage in a way that large men rarely do, preferring to let only their sheer size do the impressing.†   (source)
  • The fat man would like to kill us all, I do not doubt, but he does not have the belly for it, for all his girth.†   (source)
  • A man directed traffic with a rolled-up magazine, a man of some girth but quick on his feet, dipping and gliding, addressing the major mess at 86th Street, a man who shrugged off beeping horns and did a hundred semaphores, extravagant of gesture, in a topcoat with a velvet collar, his glossy baton flashing and people pausing to watch, and there was a great and fervent feeling that attended his performance, which was conscientious and deft however befrilled by theater, and it spread…†   (source)
  • Seven feet he stood, but it was not his shocking height or girth that drew attention; it was the demon's eyes, which flashed in the light from the open doorway.†   (source)
  • If you study history long enough with the diligence and passion it requires, you will come to recognize that the truly great men in history have been men of girth.†   (source)
  • Great ilexes of huge girth stood dark and solemn in wide glades with here and there among them hoary ash-trees. and giant oaks just putting out their brown-green buds.†   (source)
  • She found Strong Belwas eating grapes, as Barristan Selmy watched a stableboy cinch the girth on his dapple grey.†   (source)
  • Whatever that means, accountant, you're about as clear as your paralyzed ministry," interrupted an obese man in a black suit too small for his girth.†   (source)
  • What an encouragement it was that someone built this thing, lugging so much wood and soil up five narrow flights, raising the posts and joists, and vines growing out of half barrels, old whiskey barrels great-girthed and stained, and she sat with three others at the table eating nachos and drinking sangria, the others did—Klara liked her wine unmixed.†   (source)
  • He entered behind Haldir, and found that he was in a chamber of oval shape, in the midst of which grew the trunk of the great mallorn, now tapering towards its crown, and yet making still a pillar of wide girth.†   (source)
  • Bruenor regarded the young barbarian's great height and girth and the scraggly beginnings of a blond beard upon the golden skin of his face.†   (source)
  • Fear and wonder, maybe, enlarged him in the hobbit's eyes, but the Mumak of Harad was indeed a beast of vast bulk, and the like of him does not walk now in Middle-earth; his kin that live still in latter days are but memories of his girth and majesty.†   (source)
  • "Lord Wyman's litter, moves at a snail's pace …. and of course his lordship's health and girth do not permit him to travel more than a few hours a day, with frequent stops for meals.†   (source)
  • At 1,040 pounds, he outweighed War Admiral by 80 pounds, with six feet of girth and a markedly wider chest.†   (source)
  • Chopping stone and pounding metal had corded the barbarian's muscles, redefining the gangly frame of his youth into a hardened girth of unrivaled strength.†   (source)
  • " Wilbarger abruptly dismounted and automatically loosened his horse's girth a notch or two to give him an easier breath.†   (source)
  • War Admiral was kicking so hard that his hind legs were nearly thumping into his girth, but he couldn't keep up.†   (source)
  • The giant's pace was a ponderous one, despite the length and girth of those legs, and he was forever stopping to knock snow off low-hanging limbs with his maul.†   (source)
  • Everyone agreed there were dangers, but no one had ever heard of a small cow hooking a horse under the girth before and killing it.†   (source)
  • On the rare occasions when he rode a green horse, he used a custom-made, reinforced saddle and slip-proof girth.†   (source)
  • When Kurtsinger slid off in the winner's circle and reached down to unlatch the girth, he was horrified to discover his colt's belly and hoof dripping with blood.†   (source)
  • He rode up to a little brindled cow, meaning to take her yearling calf, and while he was easing the calf away from her the cow turned mean suddenly and hooked Mouse right back of the girth.†   (source)
  • David Alexander, who knew both horses better than any other journalist, wrote, "Had [Kayak] ever got to Seabiscuit's saddle girth, Seabiscuit would have come on again and won anyway.†   (source)
  • As Smith cinched the girth of Woolf's kangaroo-leather saddle around Seabiscuit's belly, Marcela stepped forward, clutching a medal of Saint Christopher, patron saint of travelers.†   (source)
  • The crowds gathered ten deep for one hundred feet in each direction, a few spectators reaching through the slats of the fence to stroke Seabiscuit's chest as Smith cinched the girth on Woolf's kangaroo-leather saddle.†   (source)
  • Already the companies were preparing to start: men were tightening girths, looking to saddles, caressing their horses; some gazed uneasily at the lowering sky.†   (source)
  • Leading the line there came walking a big thick-limbed horse, and on it sat a man of wide shoulders and huge girth, but old and grey-bearded, yet mail-clad and black-helmed and bearing a long heavy spear.†   (source)
  • Thence, turning and encircling all its wide girth from south to north, it climbed at last, high in the upper cone, but still far from the reeking summit, to a dark entrance that gazed back east straight to the Window of the Eye in Sauron's shadow-mantled fortress.†   (source)
  • They were coming to the monarch of the forest It was a lime tree as great as that which used to grow at Moor Park in Hertfordshire, no less than one hundred feet in height and seventeen feet in girth, a yard above the ground.†   (source)
  • One summer the Friar, who did not make long journeys now that he had grown large in girth, decided that he would like company,— someone to admire his fine garden, his ingenious kitchen, his airy loggia with its rugs and water jars, where he meditated and took his after-dinner siesta.†   (source)
  • He suddenly felt himself older than he was—a man old and too thick of girth and with whitening hair, and he saw his son a man slim and young, and it was not for this moment father and son, but two men, one old and one young, and Wang Lung said angrily, "Now keep off the slaves—I will not have the rotten ways of young lords in my house.†   (source)
  • Day by day Jody tightened the girth a little more until at last the pony didn't mind the saddle at all.†   (source)
  • Over an undershirt full of holes, he strapped pillows for girth, wadded up his pants, for his legs were long and thin, and we helped pull on his coat.†   (source)
  • They were substantial in their lives as in girth; they made their old people respected--there was a grandmother there that evening--and they bought the best of everything, clothes, furniture, or machinery.†   (source)
  • The girths stood the test and he was in the saddle somehow, with his jousting lance between his legs, and then he was galloping round and round the tree, in the opposite direction to the one in which the brachet had wound herself up.†   (source)
  • Stewart rebridled the horse and looked at the saddle-girths.†   (source)
  • Stands well; has plenty of room for his oats behind the girth.†   (source)
  • His girth was immense, his neck thin, his legs feeble.†   (source)
  • It tickles my girths, and, besides, I can't see with my head on the ground."†   (source)
  • Lynch smote himself sonorously on the chest and said: —Who has anything to say about my girth?†   (source)
  • His strong hands flashed at girths and straps.†   (source)
  • Vronsky slipped his finger under the saddle-girth.†   (source)
  • The Cossacks were untying their horses and tightening their saddle girths.†   (source)
  • Hurriedly he strapped on the saddle-bags, gave quick glance to girths and cinches and stirrups, then leaped astride.†   (source)
  • For answer Dale took a quick turn at their saddle-girths, and then, mounting, he called to the hound.†   (source)
  • "You see," he went on, as though addressing his neglected mother across half the girth of the earth, "each year I was going home.†   (source)
  • 'There they were, sure enough, three of them as large as life, and one much larger of girth than any living man has a right to be, just landed with a good breakfast inside of them from an outward-bound Dale Line steamer that had come in about an hour after sunrise.†   (source)
  • It took but a few moments to release the gases pent up in the poor beast, and the two women heard the rush of wind and saw the roan visibly diminish in girth.†   (source)
  • Hare, in his eagerness, found the time very tedious while August delayed about camp, punching new holes in his saddle-girth, shortening his stirrups, and smoothing kinks out of his lasso.†   (source)
  • Shefford loosened the saddle-girths on Nack-yal and, leaving him to graze, went toward the hogan of Hosteen Doetin.†   (source)
  • And his girth was proportionate.†   (source)
  • It was a comrade bending over the house, strength and adventure in its roots, but in its utmost fingers tenderness, and the girth, that a dozen men could not have spanned, became in the end evanescent, till pale bud clusters seemed to float in the air.†   (source)
  • He was a man with an immense girth of chest, a rugged, clean-shaved face of mahogany colour, and two blunt tufts of iron-grey, thick, wiry hairs on his upper lip.†   (source)
  • Silvermane walked into the glade with a saddle-girth so tight that his master unbuckled it only by dint of repeated effort.†   (source)
  • The girth snapped.†   (source)
  • "They're goin' to switch off at the holler thet heads near the trail a few miles down," Nels was saying, as he tightened his saddle-girth.†   (source)
  • There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish Friars, and winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as they went by, and glanced demurely at the hung-up mistletoe.†   (source)
  • Broad back and breast straps, and girths, secured with countless knots and ties, held the device in place.†   (source)
  • The poor opinion, and but ill-concealed, that he entertained of the slim Farfrae's physical girth, strength, and dash was more than counterbalanced by the immense respect he had for his brains.†   (source)
  • Now he patted his horse's side, Now gazed at the landscape far and near, Then, impetuous, stamped the earth, And turned and tightened his saddle girth; But mostly he watched with eager search The belfry-tower of the Old North Church, As it rose above the graves on the hill, Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.†   (source)
  • In the length he attains, and in his baleen, the Fin-back resembles the right whale, but is of a less portly girth, and a lighter colour, approaching to olive.†   (source)
  • I looked up and saw, far off in the shade of a tree, half a dozen armed knights and their squires; and straightway there was bustle among them and tightening of saddle-girths for the mount.†   (source)
  • His valet made a fortune out of his wardrobe: his toilet-table was covered with as many pomatums and essences as ever were employed by an old beauty: he had tried, in order to give himself a waist, every girth, stay, and waistband then invented.†   (source)
  • I began his education by securing round him a broad girth of buffalo-hide and fastening to it various articles, to accustom him to carrying a burden.†   (source)
  • Yet, even at this disadvantage, the Templar sustained his high reputation; and had not the girths of his saddle burst, he might not have been unhorsed.†   (source)
  • It was an enormous tree, its girth twice as great as a man could embrace, and evidently long ago some of its branches had been broken off and its bark scarred.†   (source)
  • He saw the village; he was seen coming bending forward upon his horse, belabouring it with great blows, the girths dripping with blood.†   (source)
  • But presently the traveller's horse sank in up to the girths, and he observed to the boy, "I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom."†   (source)
  • As yet the panic of the steed had given his unskilful rider an apparent advantage in the chase, but just as he had got half way through the hollow, the girths of the saddle gave way, and he felt it slipping from under him.†   (source)
  • Its girth was more difficult to judge, but all in all, the animal seemed to be wonderfully proportioned in all three dimensions.†   (source)
  • Then he stopped to look at a bull of mighty girth, and snowy white, covered with vines freshly cut, and bearing on its broad back a naked child in a basket, the image of a young Bacchus, squeezing the juice of ripened berries into a goblet, and drinking with libational formulas.†   (source)
  • He would have said that Ivan had pulled the saddle-girth up too high, but that was like blame, and he longed for friendly, warm talk.†   (source)
  • …draught of the once scorned water, and passes round the cup with the ejaculation tr-r-r-oonk, tr-r-r—oonk, tr-r-r-oonk! and straightway comes over the water from some distant cove the same password repeated, where the next in seniority and girth has gulped down to his mark; and when this observance has made the circuit of the shores, then ejaculates the master of ceremonies, with satisfaction, tr-r-r-oonk! and each in his turn repeats the same down to the least distended, leakiest,…†   (source)
  • Its enormous size quite startled my wife and little boy; the length being from sixty to sixty-five feet, and the girth between thirty and forty, while the weight could not have been less than 50,000 lbs.†   (source)
  • Who dares to arrest a Knight of the Temple of Zion, within the girth of his own Preceptory, and in the presence of the Grand Master? and by whose authority is this bold outrage offered?†   (source)
  • There was his Excellency the Prince of Peterwaradin, with his Princess—a nobleman tightly girthed, with a large military chest, on which the plaque of his order shone magnificently, and wearing the red collar of the Golden Fleece round his neck.†   (source)
  • In shape, he differs in some degree from the Huzza Porpoise, being of a less rotund and jolly girth; indeed, he is of quite a neat and gentleman-like figure.†   (source)
  • For, suspended in those watery vaults, floated the forms of the nursing mothers of the whales, and those that by their enormous girth seemed shortly to become mothers.†   (source)
  • The men rapidly picked out their horses in the semidarkness, tightened their saddle girths, and formed companies.†   (source)
  • All under foot was fresh grass, in Syria the rarest and most beautiful production of the soil; if he looked up, it was to see the sky paley blue through the groinery of countless date-bearers, very patriarchs of their kind, so numerous and old, and of such mighty girth, so tall, so serried, so wide of branch, each branch so perfect with fronds, plumy and waxlike and brilliant, they seemed enchanters enchanted.†   (source)
  • Storm and Grumble were led up on either side of the recumbent ostrich, and the cords secured to their girths.†   (source)
  • "I cannot guess," answered De Bracy, "nor did I think there had been within the four seas that girth Britain a champion that could bear down these five knights in one day's jousting.†   (source)
  • Denisov was angry with the Cossack because the saddle girths were too slack, reproved him, and mounted.†   (source)
  • And what is still more, for many feet after emerging from the brain's cavity, the spinal cord remains of an undecreasing girth, almost equal to that of the brain.†   (source)
  • This curious-looking contrivance I placed upon the shoulders as near the neck as possible, and secured it with strong girths round the wings and across the breast, to avoid all possibility of the saddle slipping down the bird's sloping back.†   (source)
  • …stood out in thick, coarse, sunburnt shocks; their beard covered their throats, and fell in mats down the breast; mantles of the skin of kids and lambs, with the fleece on, wrapped them from neck to knee, leaving the arms exposed; broad belts girthed the rude garments to their waists; their sandals were of the coarsest quality; from their right shoulders hung scrips containing food and selected stones for slings, with which they were armed; on the ground near each one lay his crook, a…†   (source)
  • Reckoning the largest sized Sperm Whale's tail to begin at that point of the trunk where it tapers to about the girth of a man, it comprises upon its upper surface alone, an area of at least fifty square feet.†   (source)
  • …made, Steven, voice, Stigh, path, Stilly, silently, Stint, fixed revenue, Stonied, astonished,; became confused, Stour, battle, Strain, race, descent, Strait, narrow, Straked, blew a horn, Sue, pursue, Sued, pursued, Surcingles, saddle girths, Swang, swung, Sweven, dream, Swough, sound of wind, Talent, desire, Tallages, taxes, Tallies, taxes, Tamed, crushed, Tatches, qualities, Tene, sorrow, Term, period of time, Thilk, that same, Tho, then, Thrang, pushed, Thrulled, pushed, Till,…†   (source)
  • It was as thick around its girth as a perambulator.†   (source)
  • He heaved it up and secured the girth with what seemed like one effortless motion.†   (source)
  • I slid hastily to the ground, yanking feverishly at my horse's girth strap.†   (source)
  • The cloak flipped back in place just in time for me to dash back to my own horse and be discovered fiddling with the girth when Murtagh and the Englishmen arrived.†   (source)
  • Sancho took down the armour, which was hung up on a tree like a trophy, and having seen to the girths armed his master in a trice, who as soon as he found himself in his armour exclaimed: "Let us be gone in the name of God to bring aid to this great lady."†   (source)
  • Wherefore I said, "Master, see that thou go on to the next girth, and let us descend the wall, for as from hence I hear and do not understand, so I look down and shape out nothing."†   (source)
  • …the yellows, past cure of the fives, stark spoiled with the staggers, begnawn with the bots, swayed in the back and shoulder-shotten; near-legged before, and with a half-checked bit, and a head-stall of sheep's leather, which, being restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been often burst, and now repaired with knots; one girth six times pieced, and a woman's crupper of velure, which hath two letters for her name fairly set down in studs, and here and there pieced with pack-thread.†   (source)
  • By this time Sancho had fixed and girthed Rocinante's saddle, and Don Quixote having got on his back and the duke mounted a fine horse, they placed the duchess in the middle and set out for the castle.†   (source)
  • If it be that you are dying of vexation at having been vanquished, lay the blame on me, and say you were overthrown because I had girthed Rocinante badly; besides you must have seen in your books of chivalry that it is a common thing for knights to upset one another, and for him who is conquered to-day to be conqueror tomorrow.†   (source)
  • …Don Quixote, "it shall not be said of me now or at any time that tears or entreaties turned me aside from doing what was in accordance with knightly usage; and so I beg of thee, Sancho, to hold thy peace, for God, who has put it into my heart to undertake now this so unexampled and terrible adventure, will take care to watch over my safety and console thy sorrow; what thou hast to do is to tighten Rocinante's girths well, and wait here, for I shall come back shortly, alive or dead."†   (source)
  • Don Quixote, who was not used to dismount without having the stirrup held, fancying that Sancho had by this time come to hold it for him, threw himself off with a lurch and brought Rocinante's saddle after him, which was no doubt badly girthed, and saddle and he both came to the ground; not without discomfiture to him and abundant curses muttered between his teeth against the unlucky Sancho, who had his foot still in the shackles.†   (source)
  • Well, then, all this that I put before thee is but an incentive and stimulant to my spirit, making my heart burst in my bosom through eagerness to engage in this adventure, arduous as it promises to be; therefore tighten Rocinante's girths a little, and God be with thee; wait for me here three days and no more, and if in that time I come not back, thou canst return to our village, and thence, to do me a favour and a service, thou wilt go to El Toboso, where thou shalt say to my…†   (source)
  • …leave of his master, got up a briskish little trot and hastened to make known his wishes to them; they, however, it seemed, preferred their pasture to him, and received him with their heels and teeth to such effect that they soon broke his girths and left him naked without a saddle to cover him; but what must have been worse to him was that the carriers, seeing the violence he was offering to their mares, came running up armed with stakes, and so belaboured him that they brought him…†   (source)
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