rounde
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The clerkes han rounde crounes, and the lewed men han crownes alle square: and thei holden Cristene lawe, as don thei of Grece; of whom I have spoken of before.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Hakluyt, Richard
Within there were foure seates whiche went rounde about, and one vnder an other, and close knitte togither, wroght with Iasper and Calcedony stone, in all kinde of colours.
From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert
There is founde great store of pearles in all this kingdome: but the most part of them are not rounde, by the which you may gather and vnderstande the goodnesse and fertilitie of the same.
From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Mendoza, Juan Gonzalez de
Een rounde about him, as many thousande sheepe goes, As he and thou and I too, haue fingers and toes.
From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Arber, Edward
The sepulcre is grated rounde about wyth yrone, that no man shall graet or pycke out any stones.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew
