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Definition of Mounded
1. mound [v] - See also: mound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mounded
Literary usage of Mounded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Straightway he spied the ships, In hiding near the camp, defended well By mounded
river-bank and fleeting wave. On these he fell; while his exultant crew ..."
2. On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford by Matthew Arnold (1861)
"But let me be dead, and the earth be mounded above me, Ere'I hear thy cries, and
thy captivity told of. The main question, whether or no this version ..."
3. Vestiges of Civilization: Or, The Aetiology of History, Religious by James O'Connell (1851)
"In fact the rock-cut tombs of the Egyptians were already mounded, by the mountain
from which they are excavated; The stage of tumulus was supplied naturally ..."
4. Tecumseh, Or, The West Thirty Years Since: A Poem by George Hooker Colton (1842)
"... The warrior tribes of Eld lie mounded o'er, Where fell they wrapped in battle's
gory shroud ; The children of the forest, rudely proud, Yet struggled ..."
5. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Straightway he spied the ships, In hiding near the camp, defended well By mounded
river-bank and fleeting wave. On these he fell; while his exultant crew ..."
6. On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford by Matthew Arnold (1861)
"But let me be dead, and the earth be mounded above me, Ere'I hear thy cries, and
thy captivity told of. The main question, whether or no this version ..."
7. Vestiges of Civilization: Or, The Aetiology of History, Religious by James O'Connell (1851)
"In fact the rock-cut tombs of the Egyptians were already mounded, by the mountain
from which they are excavated; The stage of tumulus was supplied naturally ..."
8. Tecumseh, Or, The West Thirty Years Since: A Poem by George Hooker Colton (1842)
"... The warrior tribes of Eld lie mounded o'er, Where fell they wrapped in battle's
gory shroud ; The children of the forest, rudely proud, Yet struggled ..."
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