rondure

Example Sentences

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I have felt the rondure of the infant's tender form.

From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen

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

And that system of these groups of particles which is enclosed within the rondure of the seed must have within it the ideal of the rose to be.

From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir

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