Around the wall were 31 "stations," indicated by the semicircles on the floor.
On the lower row are interlacing semicircles in high relief forming foliated cusps and painted blue.
The circle is of course an unending line traced from a given point back to itself, according to certain laws, but it is also a union of two semicircles curving outward in opposite directions.
At particular times, when the retina is more phosphorescent than at others, thesesemicircles are expanded into complete circles of light.
They abandoned one another, abandoned all their heavy baggage, their artillery, and half their men, and fled, getting past the Russians by night by making semicircles to the right.
At one end was a table upon which three gipsies with dark, lined Spanish faces were sitting, and the audience had formed itself into rough, concentric semicircles spreading down the length of the room.
First, two semicircles are drawn, large enough to hold the two parties, the distance between the semicircles being about twenty paces.
Spherical lune,portion of the surface of a sphere included between two great semicircleshaving a common diameter.
Defn: Having a border or outline composed ofsemicircles with the convexity outward; -- the opposite of engrailed.
On the other side, where the semicircles are broken by empty spaces, are those who turned their faces on Christ already come.
Many persons, however, see the apparent sizes of the two semicircles reversed.
With Lonicera brachypoda the semicircles from and to the light differed considerably in time; for 5 semicircles from the light required on a mean 202.
Although the rate of movement in different parts of the same revolution varied greatly, yet 22 semicircles to the light were completed, each on an average in 73.
Engrailed, as every one knows, is formed by a continuous and concurrent series of small semicircles conjoined each to each, the sharp points formed by the conjunction of the two arcs being placed outwards.
For the moment the two semicircles that formed the collar were drawn apart.
It would seem as if two semicircles ought to be identical; yet no two styles have less in common than that of a Roman semicircle and a classic archivolt.
Some have scars running completely across the chest, from one axillar to the other, whilst others have merely dotted lines; some have circles and semicircles formed on the apex of the shoulder, others small dots only.
Some are tattooed all over the back or breast in rows, some only one half of each or of one, some are only dotted, others have rings or semicircles round the upper part of the arms and some are tattooed on the belly, etc.
The knives are mostly ornamented with running patterns or circles or semicircles in dots or lines, and the blades are all more or less curved (=Fig.
The bronze knives were not numerous, but one was highly ornamented with a series of three flowing patterns of semicircles separated by incised lines which ran along its curved back.
Why have you got those blue semicircles round your eyes?
Two semicircles are drawn, large enough to hold the two sides, the distance between the semicircles being about twenty yards.
An illustration of their feeling in this respect is given by the aqueduct adjoining the Tower of the Winds in Athens, where the semicirclesare cut from monoliths.
The seven arms consisted of three concentrical semicircles and a vertical staff, all of which ended at the same height.
Begin with the semicircles in the middle of the pattern, which arch over two scallops, and cast on 117 chain.
As the square with the semicircles in it, has more plain stitches in the edge than the one with the eight-pointed star in it, the stitches must be divided so that you miss 3 from time to time, instead of two.
In ground-plan this is simply composed geometrically of a rectangle divided diagonally into four equal parts, and by striking four semicircles from the centres of the four sides of the rectangle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "semicircles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
