He threw it out with his utmost force, staggered as though to follow it; then, leaping back, straightened his tall body with a jerk, flung out one arm in a gesture of surprise, no sooner rigid than drooping; and even while he seemed inflated for another of his speeches, turned half-round and dove into the garden and the night.

Standing in the sunken half-round log that served as a doorstep was the stranger he had seen with Lanpher.

The circular style prevails most in it, and how to make everything round or half-round seems to have been the supreme job of the designer.

Then he also noticed that in front of them was the half-round entrance to a grotto.

The most wonderful part of this monument is the so-called "Giant's Column," a polygon with twenty-seven sides or half-round corners, and five stories or galleries, whose diameter at the basement is fifty-four feet, and whose height is twenty-six feet.