orbed
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The pair seemed lovers, yet absorbed In mental scenes no longer orbed By love’s young rays.
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2013
And all those sayings will I over-swear; And all those swearings keep as true in soul, As doth that orbed continent the fire That severs day from night.
From Twelfth Night or, What You Will by J P Kemble
"A golden axle did the work uphold, Gold was the beam, the wheels were orbed with gold: The spokes in rows of silver pleased the sight, The seat with parti-coloured gems was bright."
From Heathen Mythology by Various
I think when I compared her, unthinking, to the young moon, that I was subconsciously aware of her likeness to the "orbed maiden" whose white fire warms no one.
From The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey
Or is the past from being far off always in glory, as distance lends enchantment to the view; and so the world becomes orbed “into the perfect star We saw not, when we moved therein?”
From A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Mrs. Alfred Gatty
