spheric

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I, for my part, felt nothing but regret that the spheric smoothness of his universe should be disfigured by the extrusion even of such inconsiderable particles as ourselves.

From A Passionate Pilgrim by James, Henry

So in some village-barn, or festive hall The spheric lens illumes the whiten'd wall; 140 O'er the bright field successive figures fleet, And motley shadows dance along the sheet.—

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus

Then harmony with every spheric song, And conscious power, would give sureness divine.

From A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by MacDonald, George

And the world was filled with spheric fire From the palpitant chords of many a lyre, As out of the East the Moonmen came Smiting their harps of silver and flame.

From Shapes and Shadows by Cawein, Madison J.

They split and coalesced into other creatures, and to the drummings of spheric harmonies resolved themselves scaly and monstrous.

From Visionaries by Huneker, James