8429 examples of circling in sentences

He looked at the gloomy walls that rose a thousand feet sheer above the circling pines around him; at the sky, ominously clouded; at the valley below, already deepening into shadow.

They were rising, circling, diving in maneuvers that Dorn knew meant pursuit.

" He ceased, and prudent joined the circling throng, And in the public good forgot the private wrong. From far the King the generous Champion viewed, And rising, mildly thus his speech pursued: "Since various tempers govern all mankind, Me, nature fashioned of a froward mind; And what the heavens spontaneously bestow, Sown by their bounty must for ever grow.

Strange is that ant-like down's appearance circling the oval of thy face; Yet musky shade is not a stranger within the Hall which paintings grace.

LXXXV To me love's echo is the sweetest sound Of all that 'neath this circling Round Hath stayed.

Has the revolving Sphere two days opposed thy wish, Know that the circling Round is changeful found: Despair

Our neighbors thereare they unscathed by Fate? The once gay banquet-hall is now devoid Of circling goblets, and of friends who joyed.

Mrs. Bett, her arm still circling the child Monona, now made her first observation.

Instead of circling the valley, and the clearing, to the westward, he turned short in the contrary direction, crossed the rivulet on the fallen tree, and led the way along the eastern margin of the flats.

Nick passed out of the forest on a swift walkbut for the female, it would have been his customary, loping trotfollowed by Willoughby; his arm, again, circling the waist of Maud, whom he bore along scarce permitting her light form to touch the earth.

It had belonged to some Englishman who, becoming stranded at this South American port while on a globe circling trip, was forced to let it go; and the agents gladly secured a crew for the adventurous young Americans, who were bound up the Magdalena River for some unknown purpose.

Joe looked down the beach at the lights circling the base of Diamond Head.

High up above us airplanes were circling, so high that we could not tell from which side they came, except when we saw some of them being shelled, and so knew that they belonged to Fritz.

Up above us, as I began to sing, our airplanes were circling.

Thoughts and smoke seemed circling around Wayne together; and perhaps the blue rim of it all was dreams.

Sylvia's mind, released from the tension of that great moment, began making its usual, sweeping, circling explorations of its own depths.

They were circling around and around the shadowy interior, making no pretense of looking at the frescoed walls, to examine which had been their ostensible purpose in entering.

Taking a short walk towards sunset, we found ourselves on the margin of a beautiful pond, in which myriads of small gold fishes were disportingnow circling about in rapid evolutions, and anon leaping above the surface, and displaying their brilliant sides in the rays of the setting sun.

She bore aloft (her sceptre of command); Admired, adored by all the circling crowd, 190 For wheresoe'er she turn'd her face, they bow'd:

The berg described this morning has been circling round us, passing within 800 yards; the bearing and distance have altered so un-uniformly that it is evident that the differential movement between the surface water and the berg-driving layers (from 100 to 200 metres down) is very irregular.

The swamp goes circling round, you know, and cuts off this bit.

I remember how we stood out upon the headland watching the squadron circling far away, and how I weighed the full meaning of the sight, seeing clearly the way things must go.

Small blackish birds kept streaming from the top, circling high in the air and darting down again, all twittering as they dropped one after another out of sight, inside the weather-beaten pile.

Now he is up and away again, but you see he keeps circling in the sky.

" "Their wings are very different from Crows' wings," said Rap, as he watched them overhead, now winnowing the air with steady wing-beats, or circling on motionless pinionsnow poising in one spot for a minute by merely flapping the wings, and then dropping gracefully to float on the water.

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