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How to use gird in a sentence

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So after breakfast I brush my teeth, gird my loins and set off into the mythical morning.
Meantime, it is essential that we do gird our loins and fight this latest takeover of our right to farm.
You get more tired and less able to take the stress and to gird your loins and take on another day.
However he never gave up and continually sought to gird his loins with courage.
I think she should have told him and let the family gird their loins against it.
Quite how I am going to gird my loins to restart studying in October, I am not sure.
One was prepared to leave, and had only to gird his sword about his waist, when the other spoke suddenly.
They gird their weapons, mount their horses, and form into groups in the guise of a troop of soldiers.
This, then, is the time when we should be taking our last quiet pleasures whilst we gird our loins for the coming assault.
More fundamentally, in the discussions on this gird, several participants expressed their fear of further harmonization in Europe.
If some marauding Philistine attacks a book you love, you have no choice but to gird your loins and fight for it.
These volcanic rifts gird the globe like seams on a baseball, making ocean crust and, over the eons, moving the continents around like putty.
The ruse of hiding the newspapers no longer works because nowadays when they cannot find them they put two and two together and gird themselves for a funeral.
Most assuredly I tell you, that he will gird himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
They warn authorities to gird themselves for the possibility that many more men could surface.
At that moment he was in 13th place, from 15th on the gird, and aiming for a top ten finish.
As I live, says The LORD, you shall surely clothe you with them all as with an ornament, and gird yourself with them, like a bride.
As we gird our national loins for the mid-term elections in November, here is a brisk primer on the movement.
Once more she's having to gird her teeny loins, slap on her brave face and march out in her spikiest heels to face whatever there is out there.
In bad, it gives you a moment to gird your loins, look to your troops, marshal your mental reserves, look up more metaphors and set your face against the coming foes.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Does it become you, sir, do you think, to gird at one who is your prisoner?
Build up and aggrandise your city, for in so doing you will gird on power like a garment, and win allies for her.
They gird the body with belts interwoven from brass wire a decimeter or so in width.
The Templar rose, and he forgot not to gird on his sword as he followed the knight.
Mine was to gird my loins at Lucille's and Redfern's, in order to become a brightener.
Come, gird up thy loins and answer like a man, if thou canst.
Go into harness again, gird on your sword, run after adventures, and leave as in old times a little of your fat on the roadside.
The son of Atreus shouted aloud and bade the Argives gird themselves for battle while he put on his armour.
About has a gird or two at Balzac, but evidently imitates him.
When you are dead and gone, let him gird himself for a long pilgrimage.
Pepperell consented to shut up his ledger, gird on a sword, and assume the title of general.
Let them gird sackcloth on their loins and hide their faces.
Be a soldier, then, and gird thee for the great battle that is at hand.
As soon as they could furbish up their helmets and shields, therefore, and gird on their trusty swords, they came thronging to Iolchos, and clambered on board the new galley.
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