"Revolve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... head to be wakeful when I wished to sleep. We are all made thus; we do not understand that others may live on their own account. Each one of us is like the earth, according to the old system of Ptolemy, and thinks he can have the whole universe revolve around himself. On this point, to make use of the metaphor alluded to: 'Tous les hommes ont la tete dans ...
— An "Attic" Philosopher, Complete • Emile Souvestre
... his thoughts, after trying for a time to revolve in due orbit around the mind of the Rev. Hugh Maccleary, as projected in a sermon which he had botched up out of a commentary, failed at last and flew off into what the said gentleman would have ...
— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald
... revolve with a velocity which frequently reaches 1200 a minute. The damp, dingy looking pile instantly spreads, a broad circle of yellow is first visible on the inner rim of the machine, and this slowly whitening finally becomes ...
— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various
... when they are polite and a little reticent, when they are not too much in evidence, and when the whole household is not made to revolve about them. ...
— We Three • Gouverneur Morris
... whose breast A thousand thoughts revolve; Come with thy sins and fears oppressed, And make ...
— Woman's Work in the Civil War - A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience • Linus Pierpont Brockett
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