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Bring it over the _Helm_ of the _Retort_ of this Globe, place in a proper _Recipient_ or _Crystalline_ orb,
Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various
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As my soul in its trouble dissatisfied sank, as where you, sad orb,
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"Finding that one of these occurred near yonder star," and he indicated the bright orb,
When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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At length they saw, as if issuing from the huge heavy orb,
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
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Which glow'd with ravishing fires, from a dark orb,
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As my soul in its trouble dissatisfied sank, as where you sad orb,
The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855
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As my soul in its trouble dissatisfied sank, as where you sad orb,
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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Against the altar placed his shield's bright golden orb,
Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance Esaias Tegn��r 1814
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And that fair light which gilds this new-made orb,
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05 John Dryden 1665
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Now lovelier views the virgin's mind absorb c For now they hoverM o'er a lucid orb,
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