8421 examples of circle in sentences

11thA circle of the face shows the names of eight celebrated tunes played by the organ in the interior of the cabinet every four hours.

In this position the great man spent his remaining years, joining refinement and dignity to usefulness, and revered by all who came within the charmed circle of his influence.

In London he was cordially received as a distinguished guest in any circle he chose.

His intimate friends were few, but to his chosen circle he was faithful and affectionate.

His bright and witty bursts of poetry, wonderful as the youthful effusions of Dryden and Pope, had made him known to a small circle, but had not brought fame, for which his soul passionately thirsted from first to last.

-So still the Nymphs emerging lift in air 110 Their snow-white shoulders and their azure hair; Sail with sweet grace the dimpling streams along, Listening the Shepherd's or the Miner's song; But, when afar they view the giant-cave, On timorous fins they circle on the wave, 115 With streaming eyes and throbbing hearts recoil, Plunge their fair forms, and dive beneath the soil.

Fast by his hand one lisping boy she led; And one fair girl amid the loud alarm Slept on her kerchief, cradled by her arm; While round her brows bright beams of Honour dart, 280 And Love's warm eddies circle round her heart

145 Each on his reed astride, the Cherub-train Watch her kind looks, and circle o'er the plain; Now with young wonder touch the siding snail, Admire his eye-tipp'd horns, and painted mail; Chase with quick step, and eager arms outspread, 150 The pausing Butterfly from mead to mead;

It is surrounded on all sides by a circle of high hills and mountains; and the country round it, to the distance of ten or twelve miles from the tree, is entirely barren.

The circle had narrowed, and if he showed such anger at these attempts at invasion, if he repulsed his mother's assaults, it was because he did not deceive himself as to her real plans, and he was afraid that he might yield.

The leaf-buds below will put forth, and grow into leafy shoots, which, turning upwards, soon hide the vase in a green circle.

This makes two vertical ranks, or rows, of leaves, dividing the circle into halves.

In this arrangement there are five leaves necessary to complete the circle.

We might expect, then, that each leaf would occupy one-fifth of the circle.

This would be the case were it not for the fact that we have to pass twice around the stem in counting them, so that each leaf has twice as much room, or two-fifths of the circle, to itself.

Mark its position anew, and continue thus until a circle is completed on the cardboard.

The use of the glass filament is simply to increase the size of the circle described, and thus make visible the movements of the stem.

"To learn how the sweeps are made, one has only to mark a line of dots along the upper side of the outstretched revolving end of such a stem, and to note that when it has moved round a quarter of a circle, these dots will be on one side; when half round, the dots occupy the lower side; and when the revolution is completed, they are again on the upper side.

The great sweeps of a twining stem, like that of the Morning-Glory, are only an increase in the size of the circle or ellipse described.

Are there five men in the whole circle of ancient history and ancient literature to whom we could, without a sense of incongruity, accord the title of "holy?"

" "Your circle of flame is the last terror, and Man exists only to break through, that he may come out of it free.

A small squireen, cursed with six or seven hundreds a year of his own, never sent to school, college, or into the army, he had grown up in a narrow circle of squireens like himself, without an object save that of gratifying his animal passions; and had about six years before, being then just of age, settled in life by marrying his housemaidthe only wise thing, perhaps, he ever did.

We joined the family circle around the centre table, and spent the evening in free conversation on the subject of slavery.

He also discountenanced prejudice, both in the church and in the social circle.

So, edging a little out of the circle, and getting nearer the door, which had been left partly open, to admit the light, she cried out, "Open your eyesNan-nee-bo-zho is choking you all and putting you into his bag!"

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