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

She had "pearl round ears, white neck, orbed brow, blush tinted cheeks," and "a paradise of lips and eyes."

From Correggio A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation by Correggio

Song of the morning star to Lucifer:"— "Mine orbed image sinks Back from thee, back from thee, As thou art fallen, methinks, Back from me, back from me.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various

For men of ignoble affection, The social scheme that is, were better far Than the orbed sun's most exquisite perfection, Man needs not heaven till he revolves a star.

From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Oliphant, Laurence

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 Bailey, Temple