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girth
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  • She eyed his muscles, his height, his girth—all strength stolen from the dead Champions.†  (source)
  • The buttons of his waistcoat strain to confine his drumlike girth.†  (source)
  • Mum Olga puffed up to her full height and girth.†  (source)
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  • Their great grey trunks were of mighty girth, but their height could not be guessed.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • A heavyset man, if you judged by the girth of the elbow resting on the window ledge.†  (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)
  • "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)
  • He walked back to the black horse, tightened the girth and pulled himself back into the saddle.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • At first, the man looked down, past his girth, to the ground, but when his eyes returned to the painter, the question clearly made him uncomfortable.†  (source)
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