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Gerard says that the plant is so named from the “similitude or likeness of Domesticall Mise, which the blacke, rounde, and long nuts, with a peece of the slender string hanging out behind do represent.”

From Springtime and Other Essays by Darwin, Francis, Sir

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

Whan they were agreedde, what he shuld haue for his labour, the scoffer sayde to the man: holde! eate this rounde pellet, and I warant thou shalte be a south sayer.

From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew

“Astighesf the mountaines borneg, and measures rounde “The steepie clifftes of Chalmas hallieh grounde.”

From Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) by Kuist, James M.

Plato's year has not come rounde, but they have got father to court, and the king seems minded never to let him goe.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various