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

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

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

Then that deity bright, who keeps in cities her high ward, Made to delight them a car, to the light breeze airily scudding, 10 Texture of upright pine with a keel's curved rondure uniting.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson