rondure

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Ariadne: I dreamed a dream of sadness and the sea, And I will turn again, if yet I may, To where the rolling rondure of the deep Broadly affront the sky's infinity.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

Seems at its best some little fleet of boats, hugging the shores of a boundless sea, and never venturing, exploring the unmapp'd—never, Columbus-like, sailing out for New Worlds, and to complete the orb's rondure.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt

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

I have felt the rondure of the infant's tender form.

From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen

I could see no line the run of which gave me warrant that it was comprised in the rondure of a ship.

From Old Junk by Ratcliffe, S. K. (Samuel Kerkham)