Always, it seemed to me when I awaked into the Future, into the Everlasting Night that lapped this world, that I saw near to me, and Girdling me all about, a blurred greyness.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
Oh, for a breath of the great North Sea, Girdling the mountains!
"An Orkney Maid"
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
We have shown that the equatorial axis of the earth is longer than the polar axis, so that there is a protuberant zone Girdling the equator.
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball