It has often been asserted that scorpions kill themselves with their own venom if enclosed in a circle of fire.
In the central medallion is an elaborate royal crown, and in the circle around the medallion is inscribed "Made and Sold by JAMES HALSY near Ye Draw Bridge in Boston.
The eighth part of a circle is connected to an apex by two side pieces with a swinging arm hinged at the apex, with a blade at its end that moves along a checkered scale on the arc.
The figure he will thus describe does not quite represent a circle as he walks; but when the horse is called upon to move his fore and hind legs on the same track, it will be a circle in his case as nearly as possible.
If he does this correctly, the pupil will find little difficulty in riding the circle with precision.
The shape of the orchestra is that of a semicircle enlarged in the direction of tangents at right angles with the diameter; a complete circle could be inscribed in the space.
If one spirit sits the outmost circle turning, Or one turns another continuing in journeying, If rapid circles' motion be that which they call burning!
I school my eyes, and strictly dwell Within the circle of my cell; That calm and silence are my joys, Which to thy peace are but mere noise.
After a low salute they all 'gan sing, And circle in the stranger in a ring.
From the highest of her decks nothing could be seen but sea and sky, a vast circle of floor and dome of which, for all her speed of five-and-twenty miles an hour, she remained always the centre.
We must either turn our faces away, or withdraw to that surrounding circle where the boats were hovering with their terror-stricken burdens, and see what they saw.
The smallness of such a family circle may act in two ways: it may either send the members of it in different directions, or it may draw them together in an intense concentration of interests and sympathy.
The old spirit which sent Custer swinging around the circlerevived in him.
Then Custer must rush into politics, and went swinging around the circlewith Johnson.
Now and again some youth of more scholarship than the rest held a link to the paper, and lisped and stammered through its bewildering sentences for the benefit of a circle of listeners who craned their necks to hear.
Lamps, too, of many colors, hung downwards from the bridge, and were reflected in their completed circle in the waters beneath them.
Frank's thoughts were busy with the home he had left; and amid the cold and darkness, its cozy fireside and brightcircle of happy faces rose before him more distinctly than ever.
Nor was there wanting in the ducal circle an attraction even greater than the splendid fêtes and brilliant assemblies at which Monsieur fluttered and feasted in all the triumph of his weak and selfish nature.
The women then began without delay to erect the lodges in a wide circle surrounding the brow of the hill, so arranging them that the flaps or doorways opened into the common centre.
Now suddenly one of them slipped forward through the circle before her companions or the warriors between whom she passed could detain her.
After this had been done, they built in the middle of the circle a huge fire of wood brought from the Hills, but did not light it as yet.
Around the outside of the word-hurling circle Peter wandered, sniffing at chairs and the boots of men.
Beyond the circle of light the dim forms of the women and children showed faintly against the dimmer background of the sea-like prairie.
As it passed the various men, it eyed them closely, ready to wag its stump of a tail in friendship, or to circle warily in avoidance of a kick.
With a prodigious clatter every man drew up his chair until a circle was formed.
He stepped toward one side of the circle about him.
So real was the picture that the orator himself faltered, while from outside the circle rose for a single instant a long trembling wail.
Beyond the circle could be dimly descried another not less interested audience of women and older children.
The half-breed did not hesitate on the outer circle of the combat, but picked his way among the corpses until he stood on the summit of the little knoll.
By dint of sitting innumerable days naked in a circle on the prairie and beating a tom-tom until the agent prayed for rain, the survivors managed to secure for themselves immunity from the Spotted Sickness at least.
He was at once uncomfortably conscious of the circle of snake eyes.
The little girl played demurely on the floor within the circle of firelight, her curls falling down on her forehead.
Everybody seemed to know what a sad pretender he was: and the friends quitted the magic circle much earlier than had been usual with Titmouse.
This outlying circle is in its turn girt by a line of mountains, low and sterile for the most, but attaining in Yemen and Oman considerable height, breadth, and fertility, while beyond these a narrow rim of coast is bordered by the sea.
Wellsted thus describes the scene: “They formed a circle within which five of their number entered.
The morning was bright, yet cool, when we got free of the maze of ithel and sand-slopes, and entered the lanes that traverse the gardencircle round the town, in all quiet and security.
From 1765 the existence of an inner circle becomes less distinct, though at all times a prime minister naturally takes counsel privately with the most prominent or most trusted members of his government.
Outside this small inner circlethe lords of the cabinet held a position rather of dignity than of power, and some of them rarely attended a cabinet meeting.
In one segment of the verdant circle was a sort of open bower made of poles, up which roses climbed and hung across in gay festoons; and in two other segments mossy banks made resting-places.
My Lord Leicester, you have lived in the circle of her good pleasure, near to her noble Majesty, as you say, for half a lifetime.
High up on all sides of a circle of green the flowering trees and shrubs interlaced their branches, and the grass, as smooth as velvet, was of such a note as soothed the eye and quieted the senses.
The direction of her eyes suggested the necessity of politeness, and he started across the circle toward Brent, when the air was rent by a sharp explosion.
He had never before known her to talk so volubly, so incessantly; but, instead of translating its reason, as a wise man might have done, he looked furtively at the circle and repeatedly tried to interrupt her.
Come with me while I tie your horse, and then let's go to your charmed circle and talk.
It was a curious sight when the noisy little machine dashed between the old classic gate posts, beneath the low swinging wild-grape vines, and around the silent tanbark circle to the Colonel's secluded home.
The horses were in the circle now, and she implored even more frantically: "Run for it--run!
She now strolled on beneath the trees, beneath giant clinging wild grape and trumpet vines, to a circle of low spreading cedars, wherein lay a carpet of odorous tanbark.
Seated in a half circle on the grass were clustered the pickaninnies and their grinning forebears.
He left after this, and walked slowly beyond the house to the circle of cedars.
In such a circle the lover's presence will be taken for granted--one more or less does not matter--and courtship is made easy.
The lovers have absolute freedom of intercourse, and secure privacy in the family circle by making a tent of his large, graceful cloak, under which they sit and make love undisturbed.
This may still be done with advantage in exceptional cases, notably that of a young man with his way still to make, but whose love and ambition prompt him to choose a wife from the higher social circle to which he hopes to climb.
Meanwhile the elders discuss business, and when the lovers come back to the family circle a feast is enjoyed, at which the parents bless the food, and the lovers are only allowed one knife and plate between them.
The Indian, turning to the circle around, remarked: "What sort of man is this?
Great surprise, therefore, was felt as the Taranteens all sprung to their feet at the name of Sassacus, and attempted to push through the dense circle that surrounded them.
On such occasions the large circle of his benevolence comprehended all mankind--Indians as well as whites.
This species differs from the others of the group in that the flowers are borne in a circle two or three inches in diameter about the center of the plant.
It is to the circle of eight to thirteen radial spines with their lovely golden hue that the specific title chrysocentrus refers.
The flowers form in a circle at the top of the plant.
Little bells are the flowers peeping out in a circle at the bases of the old tubercles and laughing up at us gayly as we motor slowly along the hot dusty road.
The flowers are formed in a circle near the tops of the stems and are about an inch long.
The flowers are bell-shaped and are formed in a circle about the center of the head, having white margins and pink or pink-tan centers.
The flowers are about an inch and a half in length and breadth, form a circle around the tops of the stems, and are bell-shaped with yellow petals which have a reddish purple midrib.
The flowers are bell-shaped and form in a circle around the tops of the stems; they are yellow and about two inches in length and breadth, opening in spring.
They are formed in a circle at the top of the plant, blooming from July to September.
The blossoms are group flowers of orange-yellow, having the appearance of red on the outside and golden within, and clustering in a circle around the tops of the stems.
The pure light that shines within that domestic circle is all the brighter because of the black outer ring that is here and there indicated rather than described.
His reputation never spreads in a wider circle than that of the trade, who generally value him, not for the fineness of his compositions, but the quantity he works off in a given time.
On his way home Keith's thoughts ran in a futile circle around the day's event.
Social intercourse in the parental circle was not without grace, but this was something different.
So he was admitted to Loth's particular circle and was even invited to Loth's home for a birthday party--the first and last of its kind that he attended during his five years at Old Mary.
I begin by placing my first semi-circle shoulder to shoulder.
But first of all they are in a ring in a circle around me, and they first are required to walk in time to each tune in the show.
I have the principals come in and sit down in a semi-circle before me while I seat myself behind the table on which I keep my papers and the brief case in which I carry the "scripts," parts, etc.
The adobe yard was close by the new home, and one evening as the little circle was gathered round the blazing camp-fire the widow said, "Boys, do you think you could make adobes?
The cattle, when stampeding, always follow a leader, so the horseman took advantage of this, making a circle of some ten miles around to get back to camp.
The circle of high waving trees gave a grandeur and beauty to the view that nothing else could possibly do.
About nine o'clock the little circle would kneel down in simple, humble worship to the Great Omnipotent, and then retire to rest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
