A rhythmic circling accompanied by song is characteristic of all of the heavenly choirs in Dante's Paradiso.

Thus circling, horrible, within That spacedoth their dark hymn begin, And round the sinner as they go, Cleave to the heart their words of woe.

When he arrived he was told that Moffatt was "engaged," and he had to wait for nearly half an hour in the outer office, where, to the steady click of the type-writer and the spasmodic buzzing of the telephone, his thoughts again began their restless circlings.

And ever I drew more nigh, and looked out upon this strange sightthe visible circling of the planets about the mother sun.

At last, in that steady and deadly circling of Gray Wolf and Kazan, there came a time when the old bull did not turnthen a second, a third and a fourth time, and Gray Wolf seemed to know.

The prehensile toes gathered in the trove, the foot gently rose and the fingers of the pendant left hand secured the disc, while the body swayed with the strenuous circlings of the right hand chat revolved the heavy upper millstone.

Then before he had divined the intent, the savage had gathered the long hair into his left hand, made a swift circling of the knife with his right,and the thing was done before his eyes.

And ever I drew more nigh, and looked out upon this strange sightthe visible circling of the planets about the mother sun.

And I hit very swift both from the right and the left, and to and fro with a constant quick circling.

But there was little life observable in this still and silent worldnothing but an occasional pair of crows flapping steadily over the woods, or a far vulture circling at a giddy height in the "blue dome of the air."