Crossword-Solution: ENGIRD 6 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

She cites, as witness to her word, The frowning Adriatic strand; The Cyclades which rocks engird, And noted Rhodus' distant land; Propontis and unkindly Thrace, And Savage Pontus' billowy race.

The floors of the gallery which engird the rotunda, and the winding stairs leading to them, are of iron.

She knows the nightingales of ‘Portobello’; Love makes her know each bird! In all that throng No voice seems like another: soul is song, And never nightingale was like its fellow; For, whether born in breast of Love’s own bird, Singing its passion in those islet bowers Whose sunset-coloured maze of leaves and flowers The rosy river’s glowing arms engird, Or born in human souls—twin souls like ours— Song leaps from deeps unplumbed by spoken word.

The steersman, the boatswain, the lieutenant, the look-out-man at the prow, the shipwright--these are the people who engird the city with power far rather than her heavy infantry and men of birth and quality." Plutarch[29] tells us that on a peace footing Athens kept a fleet of sixty ships on the sea for eight months of every year.