This course or cycle was invented by an Athenian astronomer about 433 B.C.

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

Indiction was a cycle of fifteen years, the first of which dated from the third year of the Christian era.

It was usual to indicate the number of the year in a cycle and no mention was made of the cycles already completed.

Thus, the indictio sexta meant the sixth year of a cycle and not the sixth cycle or period of fifteen years.

Thus, the indictio sexta meant the sixth year of a cycle and not the sixth cycle or period of fifteen years.

The heroes, with the exception of Cuchullin, who appear in this volume, figure in the tales and poems of the Ossianic or Fian Cycle, which is common to Ireland and to Scotland.

The cycle had evidently remote beginnings.

The "Death of Cuchullin" is a rendering in verse of an Irish prose translation of a fragment of the Cuchullin Cycle, which moves in the Bronze Age period.

The third great Celtic Cyclethe Arthurianbears close resemblances, as Campbell, of "The West Highland Tales," has shown, to the Fian Cycle, and had evidently a common origin.

Or, hadst thou waited the full cycle when Thy spirit should have filled its crescent sphere, The monsters of life's waste had fled from thee like deer.

From this single and impressive instance the poet passes to the general and unfailing lawNo material object of which we have cognizance really dies: all such objects are in a perpetual cycle of change.

'The full cycle when Thy spirit should have filled its crescent sphere.'

Because the development of slavery and parasitism in human society, the subjection of the weak to the strong, the dull and base to the clever and headstrong, set up a vicious cycle: the liberation of more energy for the making of more and more slaves and the propagation of slaves and slave qualities in a geometrically increasing proportion.

In fact each cell goes through the same cycle of changes as the whole organism, though doubtless in a much shorter time.

In the third volume some of his under-water feats are related, while in the fourth book Joe's acts on a motor cycle on the high wire are dealt with.

the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society for January an article had appeared headed "Notes on the late Admiral Smyth's Cycle of Celestial Objects, Vol. II." by Mr Herbert Sadler.

To think that some women are so foolish and obstinate as to wear skirts when they cycle! .

The entire cycle, the birth of a new medium, the battle to control it and the downfall of the first victorious camp, taught us a lot about the relationship of stories to the technologies through which they are disseminated.

When one tiny organism decides it is time for the reproductive cycle to begin, it triggers a mechanism through which hundreds of miles of coral reef can change colour within hours.

And the closed source mentality travels all the way around the distribution cycle.

Declared Poet Laureate of Nebraska by a joint resolution of the Legislature, Apr. 1921, in recognition of the significance of the American epic cycle upon which he has been working for eight years.

His august presence is in one cycle of legends that of Infinite Creator, the Primal Cause; in another he is the beneficent teacher and wise ruler; in other words, he too, like Quetzalcoatl and the others whom I have told about, is at one time God, at others the incarnation of God.

There were three of them, three boys, in as many bright-colored sweaters, and they "scorched" along the cycle-path as dangerously near the speed-limit as is the custom of boys in bright-colored sweaters to go.

At an exhibition of paintings by women of Saxony, held in Dresden under the patronage of Queen Carola in the fall of 1892, this artist exhibited another decorative panel, done in the same manner, which seems to have been a great disappointment to those who had heard wonderful accounts of the earlier cycle of panels.