"Circle around" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Captain Nelson, put back and circle around that boat. Light the searchlight and play it ...
— Frank and Andy Afloat - The Cave on the Island • Vance Barnum
... sake of country air and quiet. It was a sensible arrangement; for, having the promise of figuring as a belle by-and-by, and being a little given to dancing, and having a voice which drew a pretty dense circle around the piano when she sat down to play and sing, it was hard to keep her from being carried into society before her time, by the mere force of mutual attraction. Fortunately, she had some quiet as well as some social tastes, and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860 • Various
... of the eighteenth of June; and evidently there was something of importance about to happen in the beautiful hollow, for presently a train of glow-worms came marching gravely in, and arranged themselves in a circle around the mossy throne; while thousands of fire-flies flashed and twinkled through the trees. The soft, coquetting wind wandered caressingly among the flowers, and the moonbeams rested with a sweeter, tenderer light, upon the little ...
— The Fairy Nightcaps • Frances Elizabeth Barrow
... a long beat, each having described the half of a circle around a piece of open water, and had sunk down in utter weariness on a little patch of dry ground, and for a minute looked at each other in silence. ...
— Jersey Street and Jersey Lane - Urban and Suburban Sketches • H. C. Bunner
... is great, that is, 25 or 30 diameters, it might be well to draw a small circle around each characteristic and then draw the line from the circle to the number, since the ridge will be much thicker than the illustrating line. All lines and numbers should be checked for absolute accuracy. The ...
— The Science of Fingerprints - Classification and Uses • Federal Bureau of Investigation
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