As some mule in a glutinous sludge her rondel of iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
She had saved the rondel, and it had been printed in the. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
As some mule in a glutinous sludge her rondel of iron. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
The cowl was flung back on the stranger's shoulders, and the long, fleshless head wore its rondel of straight black hair like a crown. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
It had certainly been irritating to be interrupted in the middle of that rondel for the sake of which she had skipped Sunday breakfast. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
Van Rijn's first effort yielded the mosaic rondel of St. Thaddeus from Kanakariá, which he brought to the Cypriot consulate in The Hague on September 5. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report: Church Treasures of Cyprus] Reference
The external entrance focuses on a classic rondel in painted terracotta complete with a statue of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs surrounded by her seven sorrows. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
I look up at the sky, and I see the strangest and most ominous sight: the sun is being devoured by a large, dark rondel, like a plate being passed before a candle. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Queen] Reference
For that matter, there's an odd section on page 104 where I ran into four English words that were all completely new to me - like replevined, rondel, misset and waddy. From Wordnik.com. [Cities of the Plain: Volume III of the Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy] Reference
The goldsmith's burgage was situated on the street leading to the gateway of the castle, where the neck of land narrowed, so that the rear plots of the houses on either side the street ran down to the town wall, while the great rondel of Shrewsbury lay snug to the south-west in the loop of the Severn. From Wordnik.com. [The Sanctuary Sparrow]
Aminxt that nombre of evelings, but how pierceful in their so-jestiveness were those first girly stirs, with zitterings of flight re — leased and twinglings of twitchbells in rondel after, with waver — ings that made shimmershake rather naightily all the duskcended airs and shylit beaconings from shehind hims back. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
There are 8 different actions that you can choose in the game, and they are chosen on a rondel of sorts. From Wordnik.com. [Boardgame News] Reference
There's also an exquisite quartersawn oak staircase with corkscrew balustrades and a rondel glass window on the landing. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
French stanza forms, such as the ballade, the sestina, the rondel, which have since grown familiar in the hands of Dobson, Lang, Gosse, and others. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The action that they just left moves to the front of the line - and in this manner, the train of action chits makes a slow circle around the rondel. From Wordnik.com. [Boardgame News] Reference
You may find just a lyric here, a rondel there, set to the lilt of a phrase in an idle hour and sung in a passing moment to send a tired heart asleep. From Wordnik.com. [Sally Bishop A Romance] Reference
The refurbished rondel, depicting an old Model T driving out of the darkness of the Holland Tunnel, is now tucked away on a setback and hidden above Thompson Street. From Wordnik.com. [Curbed NY] Reference
The trick of the game (and the rondel) is that oftentimes the action that you want to take is currently being occupied by someone else's pawn - and therefore, you can't take it at that time. From Wordnik.com. [Boardgame News] Reference
Long term, I'm not sure if this will be my cup of tea, but for now, I'm still interested in trying it again (or a few more times) as I really like the use of the rondel for the action choices. From Wordnik.com. [Boardgame News] Reference
The Mona Liza is a sort of riddle, an acrostic, a poetical decoction, a ballade, a rondel, a villanelle or ballade with double burden, a sestina, that is what it is like, a sestina or chant royal. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of My Dead Life] Reference
Here must certainly be said a word in favor of those French forms of verse, all essentially lyrical, such as the ballad, the rondel, the triolet, which have been used so abundantly as to become quite a feature in our lighter literature. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature] Reference
A song moves within him, a fragrant song of blond hair and perfume -- the handkerchief inspires him, and he must get the rondel perfect: a rondel, or something like a rondel, which he will read to her tomorrow, for she has appointed to meet him -- where?. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of My Dead Life] Reference
I remember well that, at the siege of Retters, there was a little, sleek, fat clerk of the name of Chaucer, who was so apt at rondel, sirvente, or tonson, that no man dare give back a foot from the walls, lest he find it all set down in his rhymes and sung by every underling and varlet in the camp. From Wordnik.com. [The White Company]
Because in middle youth he had often sat observing through a rondel of bossed glass of a multicoloured pane the spectacle offered with continual changes of the thoroughfare without, pedestrians, quadrupeds, velocipedes, vehicles, passing slowly, quickly, evenly, round and round and round the rim of a round and round precipitous globe. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
"I tell you, my fair lord," she was saying, "that it is no fit training for a demoiselle: hawks and hounds, rotes and citoles singing a French rondel, or reading the Gestes de Doon de Mayence, as I found her yesternight, pretending sleep, the artful, with the corner of the scroll thrusting forth from under her pillow. From Wordnik.com. [The White Company]
Listen to his rondel!. From Wordnik.com. [0 652. My Catbird by William Henry Venable. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
Don't you know the old rondel?. From Wordnik.com. [His Excellency the Minister] Reference
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