Sentences with phrase «girt about»

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness.

«Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning, and ye like unto men who wait for the Lord, when He will come, at even, or in the morning, or at c - o - ck - cr - owing, or at midnight.

By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness O God of our salvation, Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are afar off upon the sea: Who by his strength setteth fast the mountains, being girded about with might; Who stilleth the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves and the tumult of the peoples.

In the same way that Chrétien de Troyes has the fool declare «like a prophet» that the young Perceval will become the «knight of all knights» despite his being girded about with clothes that Welsh peasants usually wear, so the southern novelist uses the freak to see «near things with their extensions of meaning and thus of seeing far things close up.»

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Therefore, women can ignore those verses about girding up your loins.

It is right that we place our hope in the free gesture with which God chose to enter history, but in doing so we are enjoined to gird ourselves and enter into questions about the actions and organization of men.

So with this in mind, we can see why Paul, although talking about a belt which is worn around the waste, tells us to gird up the loins.

There is a contemporary ring about William Alger's words penned a century ago: «Alas, how widely yawns the moat that girds the human soul!

Nevertheless, the Democrats are clearly concerned about this seat, and are girding for a general election battle.

Meanwhile, Fabiano, who flip - flopped about running again, citing family health issues, is now girding his loins for a sixth election.

In between Roseanne and an upcoming episode of the CW's Supergirl — which she is guest - starring in so her youngest child can meet her idol Melissa Benoist — Metcalf is girding herself for what is sure to be a whirlwind of Oscar - season press and events to talk about Lady Bird.

This Week: As Kevin girds his loins for the much - anticipated release of The Dark Knight Rises, he invites fellow Film School Reject Brian Salisbury to join him in the Magical Studio in the Sky to talk about the latest Batman installment.

With the new legislative season about to begin, many Republican lawmakers around the country are girding up for another assault.

The author talks about several reasons why he feels the idea of Girt is too simplistic to capture the importance of other aspects of achievement and success.

Leaner of back it was, flanked by more profound abysses, deeplier gashed, too treacherous and too sudden in its changes from sure rock to rotten and perilous: piled with tottering crags, hung about with cornices of uncertain snow, girt with cliffs smooth and holdless as a castle wall.

The Nicaraguan government has girded public discussions about the project, but claims the canal will bring newfound prosperity to the impoverished nation.

The museum is girded by a park which harbours about 30 large sculptures (from Wilhelm Lehmbruck to Eduardo Paolozzi, Hans - Peter Feldmann and Stefan Sous).

But he stressed that, in the end, the 1992 convention and its successors are about limiting and girding against human - driven global warming.

Last week, as cameras focused on Gulf coasts girding for an oil assault, 107 presidents of university and college student governments distribued a letter calling on lawmakers to get serious about energy education.

He warms up with a 113 mile jaunt along the John Wayne Pioneer Trail in Washington state, before girding his loins to tell us about the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route with its 2,500 miles of undulation that crosses the Continental Divide 27 times between Canada to Mexico.

The news about the canceled legal appointments came as White House officials were girding themselves for an interview on Sunday evening on the CBS program «60 Minutes» with the porn star known as Stormy Daniels.

Job seekers, gird your loins: you are about to learn an ugly truth.

Pop culture, he says, supports what Ronald Henry argued recently in the American Bar Association Journal (Spring 2006) are skewed assumptions about fathers reinforced by federal legislation girding up the welfare system.

So gird your waistlines, and line your cake tins, your inner baker is about to be inspired to show - stopping new heights (that or you'll be so desperate for cake you'll even try baking it yourself).