Now gayly roves the laughing boy O'er many a mead, by many a stream; In every breeze inhaling joy, And drinking bliss in every beam.
One that cruises orroves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.
A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.
One who roves about in the night for evil purposes; specifically, a prostitute who walks the streets.
Or does some isle thy parting flight detain, Where rovesthe Indian through primeval shades, Haunts the pure pleasures of the woodland reign, And led by Reason's ray the path of Nature treads?
Sweet, as the downy pinion'd gale, that roves To gather fragrance in Arabian groves!
The eye, rejoicing in its freedom, roves about the vast expanse, yet returns again and again to the fountain peaks.
This fiend whoroves in midnight shade By thee, dear bird, can ne’er be stayed, For he is armed and fierce and strong Triumphant in the power to wrong.
The God of Wind who roves at will All places, as he lists, to fill, Saw the young maidens dancing there, Of faultless shape and mien most fair.
And if the blessed know Their ancient cares, even now the unfading groves, Where haply Milton roves With Spenser, hear the enchanted echoes round Through farthest heaven resound Wise Somers, guardian of their fame below.
The spotlight in the hands of a shadowy figure roves across the wall and to the portieres.
It roves in dream condition up and downward, Divinely many shapes and forms assuming (ib.
It roves and rolls all about the revolving world, in the manner of a straw whirling in a whirlpool.
He breaks down all the bonds of his caste and creed, and the rites and restraints of his order by the battery of the sastra; and rovesfreed from the snare of society, as a lion breaking loose from his cage, and roaming rampant every where.
My mind roves and runs mad, when I say, I will see my lord, and when I will see these creepers turning round and clasping their supporting tree.
Yet, not for ever lost, she roves Amid the winding currents, And utters to the hills and groves Her wail above the torrents.
Roves from Provence to Brittany's domain, And from the Picards to the bounds of Spain.
Thou art he whoroves among all the summits of that great mountain.
By making under the conjunction Sravana, a gift of blankets or other cloth of thick texture, one roves freely through every region of felicity, riding on a white car of pure resplendence.
Riding on a car that moves at the will of the rider, he roves through all those happy regions as he likes.
At no other point is there such unmeasured gratification in seeing, because the eye roves without hinderance over the grandest summits, placed like the Capitol at the head of its magnificent avenue.
The eye roves from the shaggy head of one mountain to the shattered cornices of the other.
Facing now in the direction of Bethlehem, the eye roves over the broad basin of the Ammonoosuc for many miles up and down.
Sweet, as the downy-pinioned gale, that roves To gather fragrance in Arabian groves!
Oft the satyrs wild she fled; “Nor these alone, but every god that roves “In shady forests, or in fertile fields.
He rovesfrom one thing to another, and is essentially nomad.
But if he cannot get employment he roves to find it, and becomes "unsettled.
More pleased, my foot the hidden margin roves Of Como, bosomed deep in chestnut groves.
More pleas'd, my foot the hidden marginroves 80 Of Como bosom'd deep in chesnut groves.
The debtor, vext with early duns, Avoids his hated home; And here and there dejected roves 'Till hours of Congress come.
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