orbed

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The pair seemed lovers, yet absorbed In mental scenes no longer orbed By love’s young rays.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2013

Shine on, sweet orbed Souls for aye, For ever calm, for ever bright: We ask not whither lies your way, Nor whence ye came, nor what your light.

From The Children's Garland from the Best Poets by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

For men of ignoble affection, The social scheme that is, were better far Than the orbed sun's most exquisite perfection, Man needs not heaven till he revolves a star.

From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Oliphant, Laurence

Or is the past from being far off always in glory, as distance lends enchantment to the view; and so the world becomes orbed “into the perfect star We saw not, when we moved therein?”

From A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Gatty, Alfred, Mrs.

A man of splendid abilities and polished manners, dressed and deporting himself like a gentleman, as he was, he shone among the lesser lights which orbed about him, a star of the first magnitude.

From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry