The reverse inscription is a play on Virgil's line, "Penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos.
But to what Orbe so ere thou dost retyre, Far from our ken: tis blest, while by thy fire Enlighten'd.
Thus my bright Muse in a new orbe shall move, And even teach Religion how to love.
Your flight doth teach, Faire Vertue hath an Orbe beyond his reach.
For while thy breathing purified the ayre Thy Sex (hee'le say) did onely move By the chaste influence of a faire, Whose vertue shin'd in the bright orbe of love.
We two are all and one, wee move Like starres in th' orbe of happinesse.
A Pen I tooke, and in a Tablet drew Whatsoe’re, O Christ, in thy blestorbe I view.
The Grammar prefixed to Johnson's Dictionary, curiously illustrated by the notes and researches of modern editors, will furnish specimens of many of these abortive attempts.
He there became an intimate friend of the famous Peter Martyr, the author of the Decades of the New World, or De Orbe Novo, and a volume of letters entitled Opus Epistolarum, etc.
When past the middle orbe the parching sun Had downward nearer our horizon run A Lutenist neare Tiber's streames had found Where the eccho did resound.
Nowe had greate Sol ye middle orbe forsooke When as a fidler by a slidinge brooke With shadie bowers was guarded from ye aire And on his fidle plaid away his care.
But the end C of the piece of iron, placed beyond its orbe of virtue, will turn toward the north.
But yet there exists in nature no orbe or permanent or essential virtue spread through the air, but a magnet {77} only excites magneticks at a convenient distance from it.
On the Varying Ratio of Strength, and of the Motion of coition, within the orbe of virtue.
Illustration] Magneticks acquire strength through magneticks, if they are properly placed according to their nature, in near neighbourhood and within the orbe of virtue.
The orbe of virtue extends more widely than the orbe of motion of any magnetick; for the magnetick is affected at its extremity, even if it is not moved with local motion, which effect is produced {104} by the loadstone being brought nearer.
Orbe of Coition, is all that space through which the smallest magnetick is moved by the loadstone.
And when that material indeed is provoked by a loadstone, it conceives the magnetick virtues, and within their orbe is raised in strength more than the weaker loadstone, which with us is often not free from some admixture of impurities.
Orbe led him away; mylord Edouard was waiting with the chaise, and they are now on the way to Besançon and Paris.
Orbe that the success of his suit to me depended on his help to you.
Orbe tells me, mylord Edouard drank freely, and began to talk about you.
Orbe went to order a chaise, and I proceeded to your lover and told him that it was his duty to leave at once.
Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor=--It was fear that first suggested the existence of the gods.
Penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos=--The Britons, quite sundered from all the world.
Far more true, and more just to the grandeur of man, it would have been to say--Primus in orbe deos fecit sensus infiniti.
Superstition is no vice in the constitution of man: it is not true that, in any philosophic view, primus in orbe deos fecit timor --meaning by fecit even so much as raised into light.
That there is an Atmo-sphæra, or an orbe of grosse vaporous aire, immediately encompassing the body of the Moone.
Moone I perceived such an orbe of vaporous aire, as that is which doth encompasse our earth, and as vapours and exhalations, are raised from our earth into this aire, so are they also from the Moone.
But now there is no reason so probable to salve this appearance, as to place an orbe of thicker aire, neere the body of that Planet, which may be enlightened by the reflected beames, and through which the direct raies may easily penetrate.
The Orbe of thicke and vaporous aire which encompasses the Moone, makes the brighter parts of that Planet appeare bigger then in themselves they are; as I shall shew afterwards.
Passing to the northern slope of this range of the Jura, the Orbe is a remarkable example of the same sort of thing, flowing out peacefully in very considerable bulk from an arch at the bottom of a perpendicular rock of great height.
The source of the Orbe is sufficiently striking, but the Loue is by far more grand at the moment of its birth.
The already mentioned De orbe novo of Peter Martyr and the letters of Columbus were the chief contributions to the history of the new world.
At this name Mlle d'Orbe raised her eyes, and recognised her own work!
Mlle d'Orbe had very few friends, as she was an orphan, and lived in great retirement; she found herself therefore completely left to the care of her young attendant.
Mlle d'Orbe felt a lively gratitude towards the young doctor for the care and solicitude he had shewn during her illness, and for sending her portrait to the Exposition.
Mlle d'Orbe was painting Anna Boleyn: she stopped her work; a struggle seemed to arise in the depth of her heart, while she looked affectionately on the children.
Henry flew rather than walked; Mlle d'Orbe could with difficulty keep up with him.
At the same time that she was painting this portrait, Mlle d'Orbe worked with ardour on her large painting, always hoping to have it ready in time.
Having announced her name, she asked Mlle d'Orbe to take her portrait, on the express condition that it should be finished in time to be placed in the Exposition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orbe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
