| The crags were begirt with icicles, reaching down many feet and brilliant with elusive prismatic glimmers. |
| The whole broad valley at Ye is begirt by a circle of monasteries. |
| Which of my ancestors had begirt me with an impassable barrier in this horrible strait? |
| To the south-east appeared rather a large lake, begirt with white fields of gypsum and terraces. |
| That gloomy spot they spoke of lay aside from the hamlet. In a dell, begirt with firs, you might behold a hut, and various ruined office-houses. |
| It appeared to breathe some feminine element, so dainty was it, so begirt with flowers. |
