631 examples of arc in sentences

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

But the railway strikes boldly into the deserted middle of the land, giving the arc a chord, and when Turco-German strategic interests no longer debar it from being linked up, through Aleppo, with a Syrian port, it will be the really valuable section of the Bagdad system.

Picture to yourself Joan of Arc confessing herself to be Messalina.

Invariably, the papers, being at a distance from the fixation-point, and being seen by indirect vision, are arranged, not in a straight line, but in the arc of a circle with a long radius.

The salvage steamer with her big arc lights glowing through the darkness had been the last artistic touch which brought complete conviction.

The great salvage steamer with the arc light went away, but others remained.

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.

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.

And from this onwards, we were free from molestation; though we had no knowledge but that the quietness of the weed men did but portend a fresh attack, and so, at last, it came to the dawn; and in all this time the moon came not to our help, being quite hid by the clouds which now covered the whole arc of the sky, making the dawn of a very desolate aspect.

The Huns had concentrated the glare of numerous searchlights on the hub of the squadron's activities, so that the speeding planes could be seen darting hither and thither like bats during an August evening, darting around some arc-light in the street.

Joan of Arc | 1474(c).

The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc, in Standard English Classics, etc.; Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, in Temple Classics, Morley's Universal Library, Everyman's Library, Pocket Classics, etc.; Selections, edited by M. H. Turk, in Athenæum Press; Selections, edited by B. Perry (Holt).

Read a passage from The English Mail-Coach, or from Joan of Arc, or from Levana, Our Lady of Sorrows, and comment freely upon it, with regard to style, ideas, interest, and the impression of reality or unreality which it leaves.

(1422-1461), Joan of Arc appeared and saved France.

Having followed the battalion, I found myself a few yards in front of the Arc de Triomphe.

However, we were on our legs again and had doubled the Arc de Triomphe.

[Illustration: THE ARC DE TRIOMPHE, EAST SIDE (THE FINEST), UNINJURED.

Yesterday they fell in the Avenue de la Grande Armée; to-day they fly over the Arc de Triomphe, and fall in the Place d'Eylau and the Avenue d'Uhrich.

HORTON, MURIEL Y. Natural trigonometric functions to seven decimal places for every ten seconds of arc together with miscellaneous tables.

Natural trigonometric functions to seven decimal places for every ten seconds of arc together with miscellaneous tables.

The broken arc, by Mayette Meyneng.

He found himself in the arc of a loose curve of pursuers.

The horizon is the black line of a broken arc.

In troubled dreams I went from land to land, Each seven-colored like the rainbow's arc, Regions where never fancy's foot had trod Till then; yet all the strangeness seemed not strange, At which I wondered, reasoning in my dream With twofold sense, well knowing that I slept.

The sending apparatus was so arranged that continuous oscillations are set up in the ether, either by a high-frequency machine or from an electric arc.

631 examples of  arc  in sentences