Rounded

Examples

• Then the bowl became ovoid, or egg-shaped, and the end of the handle was rounded, without the notch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Again the moon shone with faint luminosity on his white wet figure, on the stooping back and the rounded loins. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His head was down and his shoulders rounded, as he put every ounce of energy that he possessed on to the pedals. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In 1824 the Enterprise, an English steamer, rounded the Cape of Good Hope and went to India. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1486 a Portuguese, Diaz, reported that he had rounded the south of Africa. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Shoe with outsole laid and rounded; channel lip turned up ready to be stitched. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His bones were strong and round, his limbs were rounded, all his contours were beautifully and fully moulded. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Or, says Sir Leicester somewhat sternly, for Volumnia was going to cut in before he had rounded his sentence, or who vindicate their outraged majesty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Right in front of us, and almost within our reach, was the broad, rounded back of Milverton. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Ahead there was a rounded turn-off in the road to the right and looking down I could see the road dropping through the trees. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• As they rounded the corner of the terrace, and came in sight, I hobbled out to warn them off. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• When he rounded the dark corner, they were walking along the terrace towards a figure which was coming towards them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And how well I rounded my sentence! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The beauty of his dim and luminous loins as he climbed into the boat, his back rounded and soft--ah, this was too much for her, too final a vision. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of grizzled brown. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Now they were in sight of El Sordo's camp in the last of the pines, where there was a rounded gulch-head shaped like an upturned basin. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• In the dim light I could make out that the person who had opened the door was a small, mean-looking, middle-aged man with rounded shoulders. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was quite natural that when the rubber cushion and pneumatic tires rounded the pleasure of easy and noiseless riding in vehicles that _Motor vehicles_ should be revived and improved. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• His enormous shoulders were bunched and rounded with huge muscles. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He was a man again, strong and rounded. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He had a rounded, muscular, and vigorous hand, as well as a long, strong arm. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It has come, and although the prophecy is yet to be rounded into fulfilment by the driving of the flying chariot through the field of air, that too is to come. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The palate is also covered with hard rounded knobs. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• She has a puckered forehead, a peering expression, and probably rounded shoulders. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Lenses are very similar to prisms; indeed, two prisms placed as in Figure 69, and rounded off, would make a very good convex lens. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• An hour later found us in the time-rounded gullies of the hills, amid the beautiful flowering plants that abound in the arid waste places of Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Charley's eyes rounded with surprise. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Meanwhile, their boat, impelled by the rowers with the energy of despair, had rounded the breakwater, and was rapidly sweeping inward to the land. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I suppose, Lucy Snowe, the orb of your life is not to be so rounded: for you, the crescent-phase must suffice. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Editor: Peter