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

And many a righteous man has burned to dust In heaven's blue rondure, but their smoke, where is it?

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

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)

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

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