sphere (n.)
- acreage
- agora
- ambit
- amphitheater
- area
- arena
- art
- auditorium
- background
- bag
- bailiwick
- ball
- balloon
- beat
- bladder
- blob
- boll
- bolus
- border
- borderland
- bowl
- breadth
- bubble
- bulb
- bulbil
- bulblet
- campus
- canvas
- caste
- champaign
- circle
- circuit
- circus
- class
- cockpit
- coliseum
- colosseum
- comet
- concern
- condition
- continuum
- course
- daystar
- demesne
- department
- dimension
- discipline
- domain
- dominion
- drop
- droplet
- echelon
- ellipsoid
- emptiness
- expanse
- expansion
- extension
- extent
- field
- floor
- footing
- forte
- forum
- globe
- globule
- glomerulus
- gob
- gobbet
- ground
- gym
- gymnasium
- hall
- hemisphere
- hierarchy
- hippodrome
- jurisdiction
- knob
- knot
- level
- locale
- lodestar
- march
- marketplace
- mat
- measure
- milieu
- nothingness
- ology
- orb
- orbit
- order
- palaestra
- pale
- pellet
- pit
- place
- platform
- polestar
- position
- precedence
- precinct
- proportion
- province
- purlieu
- range
- rank
- rate
- rating
- realm
- ring
- round
- scene
- scenery
- science
- setting
- site
- society
- space
- specialty
- spheroid
- spherule
- spread
- stadium
- stage
- standing
- stars
- station
- status
- stratum
- study
- subject
- surface
- technics
- technology
- terrain
- territory
- theater
- thing
- tiltyard
- tract
- void
- volume
- walk
In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes:
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.
The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow.
It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning star full of life and splendour and joy. . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,—in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded.
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.
O Music! sphere-descended maid,
Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!
