Sentences with phrase «usually girded»

They spoke frankly on the issue and usually girded their comments with both theological concern and some measure of action.

Not exact matches

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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