orb

• She received from him the following letters in answer to her request and inquiries concerning the state of affairs in Egypt U.S. CLUB, PALL MALL 4.2.80 MY DEAR MRS. BURTON You write to an orb which is setting, or rather is set. —  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
• This orb was already many degrees above the horizon Hunger was the father of my first thought. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
• When I stood on my native hills, and saw plain and mountain stretch out to the utmost limits of my vision, speckled by the dwellings of my countrymen, and subdued to fertility by their labours, the earth's very centre was fixed for me in that spot, and the rest of her orb was as a fable, to have forgotten which would have cost neither my imagination nor understanding an effort My fortunes have been, from the beginning, an exemplification of the power that mutability may possess over the varied tenor of man's life. —  The Last Man
• This orb is a ball of gold, 6 inches in diameter, encompassed with a band of gold, set with emeralds, rubies, and pearls. —  The Illustrated London Reading Book
• The eye, dazzled as if leaning over a furnace of molten silver, turned from it involuntarily However, the oblong form of the orb was already clearly seen It appeared like a gigantic egg, with the small end turned towards the earth. —  The Moon-Voyage

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