In front there lay some twenty acres of cleared land, out of which rose the fir-stumps, Girdled with withered fern, for a warm wind from the Pacific had swept the snow away.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
All round the old home green sleepy hollows lay Girdled by silver streams, long grasses bent softly in the wind, and the half fabulous murmur of woods filled the air.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman
There were two more blockhouses on the Langemarck road Girdled by machine-gun fire.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs