rounde

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The sepulcre is grated rounde about wyth yrone, that no man shall graet or pycke out any stones.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Een rounde about him, as many thousande sheepe goes, As he and thou and I too, haue fingers and toes.

From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Arber, Edward

After supper, mother proposed a concert; and we were alle singing a rounde, when, looking up, I saw father standing in ye door-way, with such a happy smile on his face!

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

And no merueile though thei set them so that thei might well see rounde about theim: for thei saie: they are the wardens and kepers of al their whole house.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard

The trees were enuironed rounde about with Vines bearing grapes in such quantitie, that the number would suffice to make the place habitable.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard