Gird Sentence Examples

It was not, indeed, the first knightly Order to gird itself for the task.

Then the hanger and sword, which they also gird on.

In Holland the expiration of the Twelve Years' Truce in 1621 forced the Dutch Protestants once more to gird on the sword.

If you have not tried a red Beaume then gird your loins, grit your teeth and demand supplies from your local wine merchant.

I would want to under gird the whole of our engagement with a theology of hope.

Tired wayfarer, gird up thy loins; look upward, march onward.

But Thou, 0 Lord, will cast them down and root out their seed from the land, when a man not of our race (Pompey) rises up against them Behold, 0 Lord, and raise up their king the Son of David at the time that Thou hast appointed, to reign over Israel Thy servant; and gird him with strength to crush unjust rulers; to cleanse Jerusalem from the heathen that tread it under foot, to cast out sinners from Thy 1 In Sibyll.

The head of the Mevlevi dervishes (Aziz-Effendi, HazretiMevlana, Mollah-Unkiar, commonly styled simply ChelebiEffendi) has the right to gird on the sultan's sword at his investiture, and is master of the considerable revenues of the greatest religious establishment in the empire.