But from the Christian's higher standpoint, the broken arc is made a magic circle on the side we cannot see.

The high electric arcs were motionless, and the shadows cast by their steel-blue glare lay on the pave as if painted in lampblack.

The next instant, with a mighty twang, and a quiver that made the great stock stir on its bed of rocks, the bow sprang to its lesser tension, hurling the arrow outwards and upwards in a vast arc.

A system of incandescent lamps arranged in multiple arc would be represented as in Fig.

QUADRANT, an instrument for taking altitudes, consisting of the graduated arc of a circle of ninety degrees.

Move the arm extended in full length, hand palm down, several times through a horizontal arc in front of the body.

A full moon shone high in the sky with an immense arc of light around it, many-rayed, faintly prismatic.

"In every field of opinion and action, men are found swinging from one extreme to the other of life's manifold arcs of vibration."

Gradually, it sank, and, as it fell, the vast crescent of glowing green, began to dwindle and dwindle, until it became a mere arc of light, against the livid colored sky.

And this it did; but no such wind as we did desire; for when the morning came upon us, we discovered all that part of the sky to be full of a fiery redness, which presently spread away down to the South, so that an entire quarter of the heavens was, as it seemed to us, a mighty arc of blood-colored fire.

He clutched it, swayed it through a momentous arc, hurled it violently into the empty fireplace.

It was looped about the tips of her two upright thumbs; part of it had slipped through the palms and flashed like a pendent arc of light below.

He was already swinging up the pendulum arc.

Tall and venerable trees get into the wake of the same motion, and the large, pied cows ruminating in their shade, seem to lie on the revolving arc of an indefinite circle.

It may be that in the distance a fish describes an arc of three or four feet in the air, and there is one bright flash where it emerges, and another where it strikes the water; sometimes the whole silvery arc is revealed; or here and there, perhaps, is a thistle-down floating on its surface, which the fishes dart at and so dimple it again.

Turning from the sea, the wagons followed a rutted cart-track that wound downhill in a slow arc between an orchard hedge and an open meadow dotted with cattle.

Waring swept the southern arc with his glasses.

The sun rose from its morning bath on the left, and sank to its evening bath on the right, and in making its climb of the spacious arc between, shed a heat as great as that of summer, but not the heat of summer, on the pretty world of villas and hotels, towered over by the olive-gray slopes of the pine-clad heights behind and above them.

A.Because the length of the pendulum determines the steepness of the circle in which the body moves, and it is obvious, that a body will descend more rapidly over a steep inclined plane, or a steep arc of a circle, than over one in which there is but a slight inclination.

Tiny arcs of its circumference have been broken already.

" At present cultivation is confined to the Armenian foot-hillsan uncertain arc of green from Aleppo to Mosul.

This machine has been studied with a view of rendering the lamps independent; and there may be produced with it, for example, a voltaic arc of an intensity of from 250 to 600 carcels for the lighting of a courtyard, or it may be used for producing arcs of less intensity for shops, or for supplying incandescent lamps.

And there, to be sure, was the first blinding arc of the sun rising over the eastern hill.

Every intricacy of the harbour can be seen as on a map, and its almost landlocked character is strikingly apparent as the eye follows the bright yellow arc of sand to the cliffs of Bournemouth.

Thus, seeming to have reached a certain finality of decision, he dismissed her again from his mindfor perhaps the twentieth timeand with new care once more began studying the gold-edged, shining clouds where now a dull, broad arc of molten metal had burned its way out of the mists.