rondure

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How have I, unaware, Forgetful of my strain inaugural, Cleft the great rondure of thy reign complete, Yielding thee half, who hast indeed the all?

From Poems by Thompson, Francis

This habit, however, is more noticeable in other passages where we come upon cilice, 467 egromancy, 468 verdurous, 469 vergier, 470 rondure, 471 purfled, 472 &c.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas

And that system of these groups of particles which is enclosed within the rondure of the seed must have within it the ideal of the rose to be.

From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir

In Being's rondure do we stray belated, Our pride of manhood humbled and abated; Would we were gone! long since have we been wearied With this world's griefs, and with its pleasures sated.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

Deep in the rondure of the heavenly blue, There is a cup, concealed from mortals' view, Which all must drink in turn; Oh, sigh not then, But drink it boldly, when it comes to you!

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar