rondure

Example Sentences

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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)

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

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

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

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