Footnote 847: Cypriote pottery with concentric circles has been found at Nebesheh in the Delta.
The drawing of the circles in different planes, without regard to the lines of the vase, was easily effected by placing it in different positions.
The circles are often very fine and close, and were produced by holding a brush full of paint close to the surface of the vase as it was turned on the wheel.
The stereographic projection, however, represents the poles and zone-circles on a plane surface and not on a spherical surface.
The straight lines and circular arcs are the projections on the equatorial plane of the great circles in which the nine planes of symmetry intersect the sphere.
The calculation of the angles between the normals of faces and between zone-circles is then performed by the ordinary methods of spherical trigonometry.
A satirical comedy was censored, and other poems began to appear in the reviews, so that not only the literary circles but Society looked with keen expectation for something good at his hands.
There was no cloth upon the table, and the china made regular circles of deep blue upon the shining brown wood.
In other words, the culture, essentially Chinese, of the high circles of society was not monopolised by the men only, but shared by the women.
The former as a rule is the religion which finds its foothold first among the lower classes of the people, while the latter, in Japan at least, began its propaganda with the upper circles of the nation, and then proceeded downwards.
The culture fostered in the city, therefore, was nearer to that of the non-military circles than that of Yedo.
I have dined in the best houses of the great American cities, and nowhere have I met teetotalers in those circles of society.
How many women have I met during my twenty years of contact with the literary, artistic, dramatic, and social circles of life who completely lost their heads over a sudden personal success!
But she spoke little and said practically nothing: which was a shock to Marian Prohack, who had imagined that in the circles graced by Lady Massulam conversation varied from badinage to profundity and never halted.
Then she calmed down the white flames of the circles that enclosed Shibli Bagarag and the Vizier Feshnavat, and they stepped forth, marvelling at the greatness of her sorceries that held such a Genie in bondage.
And here the usual dancing-circles were formed, and the fun of the day commenced.
The diffusion circles produced by the red rays, when the eye is accommodated (as it commonly is) for the yellow and green, are less conspicuous than those due to the most refrangible rays.
Owing to the existence of diffusion circles there must necessarily be formed upon the retina a violet image larger than the approximately superposed images due to rays of brighter colours.
Every point is expanded into a luminous circle, which is the larger the more refrangible the rays, and it is the extension of these diffusion circles beyond the proper boundaries of the image that gives the appearance of increased breadth.
The triad in this figure is very distinct; and we may add that a trinity expressed by three balls or three circles is to be met with in the remotest times and in most distant countries.
There are also circles enclosing the triad, analogous to other symbols common in Hindostan.
It is very natural for the inquirer to associate the twin circles with the sun and earth, or the sun common amongst the sculptured stones in Scotland.
On one Scottish monument the circles represent wheels, and they probably indicate the solar chariot.
The circles are similar to some which have been found in Palestine, and give evidence of the presence of the same religious ideas existing in ancient England and Hindostan, as well as in modern India.
They made the circles some six inches from the plant stalk.
Now these circles should be strengthened and lines erased that interfere.
It strikes me that if I should lay my garden out into four squares, the combination of squares, central circles and straight main paths would look incongruous.
Hence at the present day the problem that of all others attracts discussion in native circles in Egypt is, How may we secure the benefits, without incurring the evils of European civilisation?
Milioline type; and after a few chambers in spiral succession, complete circles of chambers are formed.
These were steady enthusiasts of whist and piquet, such as are only to be found in small country circleswhere society is scarce and amusements few.
She circles around a little, scrutinizes the landscape, studies the tracks and the wind, then comes to the door by more or less devious hidden ways.
In the circles they occupy, their influence has been felt towards a liberal judgment in all matters pertaining to government, religion and society.
It is possible, too, that the faith and works of Abraham had in pre-Christian Jewish circles already been the subject of controversy.
Jesus and his apostles belonged to those circles which were least affected by the encroachments of Greek civilization.
And where was such a misunderstanding of Paul possible in Jewish Christian circles of A.
She has spent a year in the Indian school at Albuquerque and two years at Carlyle, and is well fitted to adorn the choicest social circles in the land.
Santa Fé might be, geographically, far in the deeps of the red and woolly West, but the feminine portion of its social circles did not think that any reason why they should relapse into barbarism.
For Governor Coolidge was the richest, the most influential, and the most prominent American in New Mexico, and his wife could make and unmake social circles as she chose.
Among themselves the men might groan and swear and protest as much as they pleased, but if any one of them neglected that duty the ladies forthwith hurled him from the circles of the Select into the outer shades of the Unassorted.
Presley closed his eyes--they were sunken in circles of dark brown flesh--and pressed a thin hand to the back of his head.
With elaborate minuteness, he cross-questioned her, refusing to let the subject drop, protesting that she had dark circles under her eyes; that she had grown thinner.
For a moment, the life-circles of these two men, of so widely differing characters, touched each other, there in the silence of the night under the stars.
A large mind circles all the primal facts from its own stand-point, and needs never tread the curious round of science, history, and art.
It was I who brought her into literary circles where she could gather honey from our most ornamental literary flowers.
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