rondure

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But, in its visible stead, invisible fear Filled the vast rondure of the sea and sky As with the omnipresent soul of Drake.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred

This habit, however, is more noticeable in other passages where we come upon cilice, 467 egromancy, 468 verdurous, 469 vergier, 470 rondure, 471 purfled, 472 &c.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas

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

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

And many a righteous man has burned to dust In heaven's blue rondure, but their smoke, where is it?

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar