The open side of this hemicycle is forty-six feet along the front, and its curvature inwards is fifteen feet, so that those who are standing before the magistrates may not be in the way of the business men in the basilica.
These return from the columns which stand third on the inner side to the antae which project from the pronaos, and which touch the edges of the hemicycle at right and left.
In the hemicycle above are the Virgin and Child under a Byzantine canopy with angels and founders on either side.
His greatest work, however, and one which won him much fame, is his well-known Hemicycle in the Beaux Arts (p.
Between St. Remi's choir and the hemicycle transept of Soissons Cathedral there is such similitude of profile, detail, and plan that it is thought the same architect designed both.
Afterward, when he has come back out of the shaft, he goes away and transfers the markings from the waxed semi-circle of the hemicycle to an orbis similarly waxed.
When he has measured the part of the drift or tunnel up to the first shaft which connects with an upper drift, he measures the incline of this shaft by applying a hemicycle or orbis to the cord.
Tell my lord that she whom he favours awaits him at the hemicycle in the garden, and guide him to me.
Here ice will first form at the bottom of the snow in the advancing hemicycle of glaciation, and here it will linger longest in the hemicycle of retreat.
A long ridge sweeps away from Abul on the north-eastern side in a hemicycle concave to the west.
There the open stage of the wide hemicycle is filled with rolling hills and level expanses which yield abundant crops of cereals.
An immense hemicycle was designed by Bramante for the Vatican, where it constitutes a fine architectural effect at the end of the great court.
And once this was discovered, it would have been entirely practical to set up the new dial beside a Hemicycle or Clepsydra, and find the angles of the hour lines by experiment.
The "Hemicycle of Berosus," as it was called, remained in use for centuries and was the favorite form of sun-dial all through the classic period of Greece and Rome.
But the hemicycle was not easy to make unless it were fairly small, and, if small, it was not very easy to read.
It can be seen that this and similar great dials were applications of the hemicycle idea on a large scale.
Vitruvius, the Roman engineer, mentions thirteen, some of them portable; and ascribes the invention of the Hemicycle to the Babylonian astronomer and priest, Berosus.
The Hemicycle is not certainly known to have been invented until long after this, about B.
On the other hand, the Hemicycle remained the common form of the instrument all through the classic period and even afterwards.
We are thus living in a receding hemicycle of glaciation.
The reverse series of changes in the glacier is inaugurated by an amelioration of the climate, and here, therefore, the advancinghemicycle becomes merged in the receding hemicycle of glaciation.
Schematic diagram to show the relationships of glacier types formed in succession during a receding hemicycle of glaciation.
Study of both the Greenland and Antarctic glaciers has shown that if we disregard the smaller and short-period migrations of the ice front, the general later movement has been a retrograde one—we live in a receding hemicycle of glaciation.
If once covered by an ice carapace or cap, our present interest in them begins at that stage of the recedinghemicycle when the rock surface has made its reappearance above the surface of the snow-ice mass.
Still later in the hemicycle nourishment of the glaciers is diminished as depletion from melting increases, so that the glacier streams no longer reach to the mountain front.
Behind the hemicycle a sort of square niche buried itself in the wall between two doors, one of which, painted on the wall for the sake of symmetry, is a useful and curious document.
Another strangely-decorated monument forms a covered hemicycle turned toward the south, fronting the sea, as though to offer a shelter for the fatigued and heated passers-by.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hemicycle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
