spheric

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And the world was filled with spheric fire From the palpitant chords of many a lyre, As out of the East the Moonmen came Smiting their harps of silver and flame.

From Shapes and Shadows by Cawein, Madison J.

The patient died one month after of another cause, and at the postmortem examination the aorta was shown to have been opened; the wound in its walls was covered with a spheric, indurated coagulum.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

When thrilling from His hand along Its lustrous path with spheric song The earth was deathless, sorrowless.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

They split and coalesced into other creatures, and to the drummings of spheric harmonies resolved themselves scaly and monstrous.

From Visionaries by Huneker, James

So in some village-barn, or festive hall The spheric lens illumes the whiten'd wall; 140 O'er the bright field successive figures fleet, And motley shadows dance along the sheet.—

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus