The four cycles are the Chester and York plays, so called from the towns in which they were given; the Towneley or Wakefield plays, named for the Towneley family, which for a long time owned the manuscript; and the Coventry plays, which on doubtful evidence have been associated with the Grey Friars (Franciscans) of Coventry.

But with all ancient nations the cycle of the year was only the symbol of the spiritual cycle of the soul, the path of birth and death.

Each cycle was a social experiment that followed a well marked path.

Therefore one of the two: either the Rougon are sick, and in that case the cycle of novels about them is not a picture of French society during the Empireit is only a psychological studyor the whole physiological foundations, all this heredity on which the cycle is based, in a word Zola's whole doctrine, is nonsense.

Some have thought this cycle to be normally a period of ten years, divided into one year of crisis, three years of depression, three years of recovery, and three years of unusual prosperity.

So that, as they present themselves to us, the Carlovingian cycle is the child of the latest middle age, while the Arthurian represents the earlier.

The cycle of course is the revolution of nineteen years, from 1 to 19.

The Cycle was her own creation and property.

A motor cycle is the most hustling thing I know of this side of an automobile, and we can't afford that yet.