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  • It was a circle with a vertical line through the middle that extended beyond the circumference.†   (source)
  • The sky above the circumference of the jungle is tinged a uniform pink.†   (source)
  • We bought dish towels at a 7-Eleven on I-Drive and tried our best to wash the slime and stink from the moat off our clothes and skin, and I filled the gas tank to where it had been before we drove the circumference of Orlando.†   (source)
  • Rachel, with a ghost of the charm she must once have possessed, succeeded in drawing William, if not actually into the circle, at least to its warm circumference.†   (source)
  • The circumference of the central chamber increased with each successive level.†   (source)
  • Now, in the late afternoon, it lay calm and smooth, a good audience for silence, a seven-mile circumference that could be traveled by slow car in twenty-five minutes.†   (source)
  • Her neck, its circumference no wider than a parlor-service saucer, kept bending and her chin brushed the bit of lace edging her dress.†   (source)
  • I left Seivarden standing where she was and walked the circumference of the circle.†   (source)
  • It was the height and circumference of a large skyscraper.†   (source)
  • The test alone had caused the wheel to move one eighth of its circumference.†   (source)
  • All around the circumference of the walls, in closet-size niches, stood mummified men in rotted clothing, their leathery fingers clasped around the hilts of corroded swords.†   (source)
  • There are 256 Express Ports on the street, evenly spaced around its circumference at intervals of 256 kilometers.†   (source)
  • Whatever the reason, something had disturbed the dream, something was whittling away the circumference of that hole in the paper through which he saw.†   (source)
  • A decrepit chain-link fence formed an oval boundary around the circumference of the field, forcing visitors on their way to the playgrounds and picnic tables on the far side of Milam Park to take a detour around the playing area.†   (source)
  • The extensive head wounds measured approximately 16 inches in circumference.†   (source)
  • Patch crouched by the front tire, running his hand around the circumference.†   (source)
  • With each stir of the breeze another flurry would dislodge, littering the grass in wide circumference.†   (source)
  • Company specifications cover everything from the size of the pickle slices to the circumference of the paper cups.†   (source)
  • Fledglings were already starting to come into the rec hall, but they were being pretty subdued and hanging out in the corners of the large room in clusters while they watched the Twins and Stevie Rae light the white candles that would form the circumference of the circle.†   (source)
  • The measurements ...of course ...each finger and the circumference of the wrist, and the distance from the sixth nail to the index pad ...so many measurements ...and your preferences ...Do you prefer to slash or cut?†   (source)
  • Around the entire circumference were numbers from zero to three hundred and sixty, marking the degrees of the circle, and on the floor, walls, tables, chairs, desks, cabinets, and ceiling were labels showing their heights, widths, depths, and distances to and from each other.†   (source)
  • She is known around Brown by administrators and professors (her husband, Mark, is an emeritus professor of economics), and referrals come, randomly but steadily, from around the university's circumference.†   (source)
  • Jace held his hands out as the Inquisitor produced a stele from some hidden pocket and proceeded to trace a Mark around the circumference of his wrists.†   (source)
  • A regulation major league baseball no less than nine inches in circumference, going by the rule book.†   (source)
  • He was a spry, suave and very precise general who knew the circumference of the equator and always wrote 'enhanced' when he meant 'increased'.†   (source)
  • This roundness had to be made coin-sized so that she would see its circumference: punish her at the birth of her baby.†   (source)
  • The tower itself was perhaps forty feet in circumference, and it was inset with windows at staggered intervals as it rose, one about every twenty feet.†   (source)
  • A ring of torches planted every fifty paces ran the camp's circumference.†   (source)
  • His head measures twenty-two and three eighths inches in its circumference, sixteen inches from the meatus auditorias to the occipital protuberance, and six and one third inches through the head at the outermost from the point of nominal destructiveness.†   (source)
  • For a moment it eclipsed the moon and a halo formed around its circumference.†   (source)
  • Smith warned Howard that Belmont's mile-and-a-half circumference was so large that the race would be run around just one turn, instead of the two turns necessary to complete a mile and one quarter at every other track in America.†   (source)
  • The earth's circumference was 24,860 miles, and a day was twenty-four hours.†   (source)
  • It twitched brokenly along that circumference with such insectile single-mindedness that the men, hands full of dollar bills, were placing bets on how fast it would complete each lap.†   (source)
  • No one moves too far from the circumference of the fan.†   (source)
  • Twenty-nine kilometers in circumference.†   (source)
  • It was lying flat now, pointing toward the street, and Landis was untying a length of rope that had been looped around its circumference.†   (source)
  • I credit poetry, in other words, both for being itself and for being a help, for making possible a fluid and restorative relationship between the mind's centre and its circumference, between the child gazing at the word "Stockholm" on the face of the radio dial and the man facing the faces that he meets in Stockholm at this most privileged moment.†   (source)
  • In order to ensure that my claim would not be overlooked, I felt obliged to make a property mark on stones, clumps of moss, and patches of vegetation at intervals of not more than fifteen feet around the circumference of my claim.†   (source)
  • He could not see across it, but he knew it to be roughly circular in shape; and he knew, too, that it widened in circumference as it descended.†   (source)
  • He noted that the letters of the alphabet were placed at regular intervals —though in no particular order-round the circumference of the table.†   (source)
  • A crowd materialized around every square inch of Hubert Oval's circumference.   (source)
  • Behind it, a cylinder, six boys in circumference and two boys deep, their limbs outstretched and frozen so they couldn't possibly be holding on to each other.   (source)
  • The circumference of this tunnel is so large that the curve is imperceptible-like that of the earth.†   (source)
  • Roran hesitated, trying to gauge Carvahall's circumference.†   (source)
  • Beneath the carvings, a single stone pew curled around the entire circumference of the room.†   (source)
  • Ringing the circumference were nine trees, each like the one we'd stepped through in Jotunheim.†   (source)
  • He surveyed the circumference of the room.†   (source)
  • The circumference could have accommodated a Roman hippodrome.†   (source)
  • In a flash, Andrey had extended his arms in a grand circumference to fence them in.†   (source)
  • I'll take the left arc," Vittoria said, indicating the left half of the circumference.†   (source)
  • The table is just over thirteen feet in diameter, one hundred and thirty-five feet in circumference.†   (source)
  • But when you try to remove them, the circumference shrinks as the braid catches and tightens.†   (source)
  • She was now halfway around the circumference, admiring every inch of Brumidi's The Apotheosis of Washington, which loomed directly over their heads.†   (source)
  • The karpos's fanged mouth unhinged, expanding to an unbelievable circumference, then closed around the cadaver's head, and chomped it off in one bite.†   (source)
  • On his hands and knees, he drags the aerial around the circumference of the cellar, as though roping Volkheimer into the golden armchair.†   (source)
  • Ludus was a relatively small planet by OASIS standards, about a third the size of Earth's moon, with a circumference of exactly one thousand kilometers.†   (source)
  • The gaping center of the Boar's Eye was now almost nine and a half miles in circumference, and how many fathoms deep no one could say, except for those who had been trapped within it.†   (source)
  • I estimate that it was about six or seven miles in diameter, which means a circumference of about twenty miles.†   (source)
  • Hatsue, her bucket beside her, her shovel in one hand, pointed out the darkness of the exposed clam's lip, its size, its hue and tone, the circumference of its watery dimple.†   (source)
  • Neumann One, who, if he were not scheduled to die ten weeks from now in the Allied invasion of Normandy, might have become a barber later in life, who would have smelled of talc and whiskey and put his index finger into men's ears to position their heads, whose pants and shirts always would have been covered with clipped hairs, who, in his shop, would have taped postcards of the Alps around the circumference of a big cheap wavery mirror, who would have been faithful to his stout wife for the rest of his life—Neumann One says, "Time for haircuts."†   (source)
  • I was smiling at the comparison when I saw the glowing light that wrapped around the circumference of the circle, joining Damien, Shaunee, Erin, and Stevie Rae.†   (source)
  • When he finished, Islanzadi whirled around and paced the circumference of the tent-her movements as lithe as a cat's-then stopped and said, "You chose to stay behind, in the middle of the Empire, to save the life of a murderer and a traitor.†   (source)
  • During the days, he walked the circumference of the island and found nothing of interest—unless you liked beaches and endless sea in every direction.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of worshipers lay prostrate around the circumference, with only their heads and hands in the green circle.†   (source)
  • Confused, I followed his hand to see a beautiful silver thread of light connecting each of my four friends—the four personifications of the elements—and making a boundary of power within the candles that had already lit the circumference.†   (source)
  • And Eddie and Oscar and Stink were back at the table now, showing the captain how various ambush formations were set up, the classic X and L and 0, and everyone agreed that the 0 was the best of the formations because it offered perimeter protection and a 360-degree killing circumference.†   (source)
  • It would only move that fast at the equator, the one line of latitude that went around the earth's true circumference, like a tape measure around the widest part of a fat man's belly.†   (source)
  • I glanced around at the boundary of my circle and, sure enough, I could see the ribbon of power marking its circumference.†   (source)
  • Bronze braziers of magical light, like the gods used on Mount Olympus, glowed around the circumference of the room, interspersed with gorgeous tapestries.†   (source)
  • As they'd expected, it was an iron kettle about three feet high and slightly less in circumference, giving it a somewhat elongated appearance.†   (source)
  • That is the circumference that I try to grasp as we sit together.†   (source)
  • The great thing is to direct the malice to his immediate neighbours whom he meets every day and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference, to people he does not know.†   (source)
  • For Anna was terribly religious and had her own ideas of time and place, so that Heaven and eternity were not too far; she had things segmented, flattened down, and telescoped like the stages and floors of the Leaning Tower, while Nicaragua was at a distance double the circumference of the world, where the bantam Sandino—and who he was to her is outside my power to imagine—was killing her son.†   (source)
  • Mammy pulled and jerked vigorously and, as the tiny circumference of whalebone-girdled waist grew smaller, a proud, fond look came into her eyes.†   (source)
  • They occupied nearly the whole circumference of his field of vision.†   (source)
  • Near at hand the ground sloped down to a large rock-bound lake, perhaps a mile in circumference.†   (source)
  • The centre and circumference of all democracy!†   (source)
  • Here is a billet of wood, the circumference of which is about that of the throat.†   (source)
  • This little round table with the marble top (it's two feet ten in circumference), I bought.†   (source)
  • There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to us.†   (source)
  • Then his men simultaneously staked it off at several points around its circumference.†   (source)
  • Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth to those children.†   (source)
  • True art thou, lad, as the circumference to its centre.†   (source)
  • It measured four to five miles in circumference.†   (source)
  • By day the blue will pale down into white where it touches the white of the land, after sunset it has a new circumference—orange, melting upwards into tenderest purple.†   (source)
  • In one place they found a spacious cavern, from whose ceiling depended a multitude of shining stalactites of the length and circumference of a man's leg; they walked all about it, wondering and admiring, and presently left it by one of the numerous passages that opened into it.†   (source)
  • It was such a gradual movement that he discovered it only through noticing that a black mark that had been near him five minutes ago was now at the other side of the circumference.†   (source)
  • If she need not, in her spirit, be forever one with Dick as he had appeared last night, she must be something in addition, not just an image on his mind, condemned to endless parades around the circumference of a medal.†   (source)
  • It was triangular in shape, and some six or seven miles in circumference; and the brothers rode around it in less than an hour.†   (source)
  • I estimated its circumference at twenty-five miles, its width as varying from two to five miles; while my most conservative calculation placed on its beaches two hundred thousand seals.†   (source)
  • At the head there was a great iron wheel, about twenty feet in circumference, with rings here and there along its edge.†   (source)
  • As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived.†   (source)
  • This castle was cut off short by a curved line which was in fact the circumference of one of the transparent ovals in the slides which were pushed into position through a slot in the lantern.†   (source)
  • What, you weren't supposed to be able to rectify circumference, or turn any given straight line into a circle?†   (source)
  • The field had already been "opened"; that is to say, a lane a few feet wide had been hand-cut through the wheat along the whole circumference of the field for the first passage of the horses and machine.†   (source)
  • This little group had in its advance dragged inward, so to speak, the circumference of the now almost complete circle of people, and a number of dim black figures followed it at discreet distances.†   (source)
  • Some kites hovered overhead, impartial, over the kites passed the mass of a vulture, and with an impartiality exceeding all, the sky, not deeply coloured but translucent, poured light from its whole circumference.†   (source)
  • After pointlessly multiplying pi by diameter to find the circumference of innumerable circles, pi by the square of the radius to find their area, the prosecutor increasingly began to wonder if since the days of Archimedes humanity had not just been making the whole thing too complicated, if the solution to the problem was not childishly simple.†   (source)
  • Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.†   (source)
  • Thanks to the thousands upon thousands of cartloads of earth employed in the hillock one hundred and fifty feet in height and half a mile in circumference, the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope.†   (source)
  • It is a clear and deep green well, half a mile long and a mile and three quarters in circumference, and contains about sixty-one and a half acres; a perennial spring in the midst of pine and oak woods, without any visible inlet or outlet except by the clouds and evaporation.†   (source)
  • Often at night a hideous form was seen wandering along the frail balustrade of carved lacework, which crowns the towers and borders the circumference of the apse; again it was the hunchback of Notre-Dame.†   (source)
  • For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat, and he reproached himself with not loving her.†   (source)
  • Bestowing a word of promise here and a smile there, a whisper on one happy slave and a wave of the hand on another, Monseigneur affably passed through his rooms to the remote region of the Circumference of Truth.†   (source)
  • When men have accustomed themselves to foresee from afar what is likely to befall in the world and to feed upon hopes, they can hardly confine their minds within the precise circumference of life, and they are ready to break the boundary and cast their looks beyond.†   (source)
  • Far too as her splendors shine, system on system shooting like rays, upward, downward, without center, without circumference,—in the mass and in the particle, Nature hastens to render account of herself to the mind.†   (source)
  • In less than two years he has sailed as far as the entire circumference of the globe, and he has seen land but once.†   (source)
  • The wide circumference of an elaborate ruff, beneath his grey beard, in the antiquated fashion of King James's reign, caused his head to look not a little like that of John the Baptist in a charger.†   (source)
  • "Here is no danger impending," said Waldemar Fitzurse; "are you so little acquainted with the gigantic limbs of your father's son, as to think they can be held within the circumference of yonder suit of armour?†   (source)
  • Her aspect was to Newman almost formidable; he had a troubled consciousness of a triple chin, a small piercing eye, a vast expanse of uncovered bosom, a nodding and twinkling tiara of plumes and gems, and an immense circumference of satin petticoat.†   (source)
  • I raised my head and saw straight above me the upper aperture of the cone, framing a bit of sky of very small circumference, but almost perfectly round.†   (source)
  • Some flew like radiant meteors round, lighted up the mighty circumference and displayed, as by a magician's wand, a sparkling glittering roof.†   (source)
  • The loads were all laid together, and a pyramid of furze thirty feet in circumference now occupied the crown of the tumulus, which was known as Rainbarrow for many miles round.†   (source)
  • The delicately festooned rim of this shell, supplied by the biggest mollusk in the class Acephala, measured about six meters in circumference; so it was even bigger than those fine giant clams given to King François I by the Republic of Venice, and which the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris has made into two gigantic holy-water fonts.†   (source)
  • The carcass of a deer, shot within twenty miles, had supplied material for the vast circumference of a pasty.†   (source)
  • But Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire into these subjects; he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics.†   (source)
  • A circle of a few hundred feet in circumference was drawn, and each of the party took a segment for his portion.†   (source)
  • Besides these Dervishes, were other three who had rushed into another sect, which mended matters with a jargon about "the Centre of Truth:" holding that Man had got out of the Centre of Truth—which did not need much demonstration—but had not got out of the Circumference, and that he was to be kept from flying out of the Circumference, and was even to be shoved back into the Centre, by fasting and seeing of spirits.†   (source)
  • Then, in order to proceed "by rule," the beadle conducted them right to the entrance near the square, where, pointing out with his cane a large circle of block-stones without inscription or carving— "This," he said majestically, "is the circumference of the beautiful bell of Ambroise.†   (source)
  • There are three hundred and sixty degrees on the circumference of the earth; and these three hundred and sixty degrees, multiplied by four minutes, gives precisely twenty-four hours—that is, the day unconsciously gained.†   (source)
  • To recline on a stump of thorn in the central valley of Egdon, between afternoon and night, as now, where the eye could reach nothing of the world outside the summits and shoulders of heathland which filled the whole circumference of its glance, and to know that everything around and underneath had been from prehistoric times as unaltered as the stars overhead, gave ballast to the mind adrift on change, and harassed by the irrepressible New.†   (source)
  • The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm.†   (source)
  • I knew that the LYCOPODON GIGANTEUM attains, according to Bulliard, a circumference of eight or nine feet; but here were pale mushrooms, thirty to forty feet high, and crowned with a cap of equal diameter.†   (source)
  • It may be remarked, that at the present day the lower orders in England are striving with all their might to destroy local independence, and to transfer the administration from all points of the circumference to the centre; whereas the higher classes are endeavoring to retain this administration within its ancient boundaries.†   (source)
  • With these two quarters, one of Hôtels, the other of houses, the third feature of aspect presented by the city was a long zone of abbeys, which bordered it in nearly the whole of its circumference, from the rising to the setting sun, and, behind the circle of fortifications which hemmed in Paris, formed a second interior enclosure of convents and chapels.†   (source)
  • The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle.†   (source)
  • St. Augustine[691] described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere.†   (source)
  • Without reckoning, too, that if a vertical depth of sixteen leagues can be attained only by a diagonal descent of eighty-four, it follows that we must go eight thousand miles in a south-easterly direction; so that we shall emerge from some point in the earth's circumference instead of getting to the centre!†   (source)
  • Here Saturn's grey chaos rolls over me, and I obtain dim, shuddering glimpses into those Polar eternities; when wedged bastions of ice pressed hard upon what are now the Tropics; and in all the 25,000 miles of this world's circumference, not an inhabitable hand's breadth of land was visible.†   (source)
  • The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafy tongues a-whispering all at once.†   (source)
  • It had been next to impossible to dart these drugged-harpoons, were it not that as we advanced into the herd, our whale's way greatly diminished; moreover, that as we went still further and further from the circumference of commotion, the direful disorders seemed waning.†   (source)
  • Among them slithered some sea elephants, a type of seal with a short, flexible trunk; these are the giants of the species, with a circumference of twenty feet and a length of ten meters.†   (source)
  • But their lower jaws lack canines and incisors, and as for their upper canines, they consist of two tusks eighty centimeters long with a circumference of thirty-three centimeters at the socket.†   (source)
  • For, owing to the large number of whale-cruisers; the disorderly way they were sprinkled over the entire watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any sort; the inordinate length of each separate voyage; the irregularity of the times of sailing from home; all these, with other circumstances, direct and indirect, long obstructed the spread through the whole world-wide whaling-fleet of the special individualizing tidings concerning Moby Dick.†   (source)
  • According to a careful calculation I have made, and which I partly base upon Captain Scoresby's estimate, of seventy tons for the largest sized Greenland whale of sixty feet in length; according to my careful calculation, I say, a Sperm Whale of the largest magnitude, between eighty-five and ninety feet in length, and something less than forty feet in its fullest circumference, such a whale will weigh at least ninety tons; so that, reckoning thirteen men to a ton, he would considerably outweigh the combined population of a whole village of one thousand one hundred inhabitants.†   (source)
  • It was located between latitude 5° 55' and 9° 49' north, and between longitude 79° 42' and 82° 4' east of the meridian of Greenwich; its length is 275 miles; its maximum width, 150 miles; its circumference, 900 miles; its surface area, 24,448 square miles, in other words, a little smaller than that of Ireland.†   (source)
  • And so, such hearts, though summary in each one suffering; still, if the gods decree it, in their life-time aggregate a whole age of woe, wholly made up of instantaneous intensities; for even in their pointless centres, those noble natures contain the entire circumferences of inferior souls.†   (source)
  • Circular was the shield he held before him, hammered out of pure bronze: aye, the smith had hammered it, and riveted the plates to thick bull's hide on golden rods rigged out to the full circumference.†   (source)
  • The next morning our fort was plann'd and mark'd out, the circumference measuring four hundred and fifty-five feet, which would require as many palisades to be made of trees, one with another, of a foot diameter each.†   (source)
  • Out of the same passion for exactness that made Frank adjust his ties on the hanger so that the ends hung precisely even, we had even trekked around the circumference of the circle, pacing off the distance between the Z holes and the Y holes, and counting the lintels in the Sarsen Circle, the outermost ring of monstrous uprights.†   (source)
  • He unbuttoned successively in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along the medial line of irregular incrispated black hairs extending in triangular convergence from the pelvic basin over the circumference of the abdomen and umbilicular fossicle along the medial line of nodes to the intersection of the sixth pectoral vertebrae, thence produced both ways at right angles and terminating in circles described about two equidistant points, right and left, on the summits of the mammary prominences.†   (source)
  • It stood prominent six feet, and could not be less than sixteen in circumference.†   (source)
  • THESEUS He is no crescent, and his horns are invisible within the circumference.†   (source)
  • But mark the sequel, Master Brook: I suffered the pangs of three several deaths: first, an intolerable fright to be detected with a jealous rotten bell-wether; next, to be compassed like a good bilbo in the circumference of a peck, hilt to point, heel to head; and then, to be stopped in, like a strong distillation, with stinking clothes that fretted in their own grease: think of that; a man of my kidney, think of that, that am as subject to heat as butter; a man of continual dissolution and thaw: it was a miracle to 'scape suffocation.†   (source)
  • And now resolving to see the circumference of my little kingdom, I victualled my ship for the voyage, putting in two dozen of my barley-bread loaves, an earthen pot-full of parched rice, a little bottle of rum, half a goat, powder and shot, and two watch coats.†   (source)
  • The broad circumference
    Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb
    Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views
    At evening, from the top of Fesole,
    Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,
    Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.†   (source)
  • 8th, That the said man-mountain shall, in two moons' time, deliver in an exact survey of the circumference of our dominions, by a computation of his own paces round the coast.†   (source)
  • O favourable Spirit, propitious guest,
    Well hast thou taught the way that might direct
    Our knowledge, and the scale of nature set
    From center to circumference; whereon,
    In contemplation of created things,
    By steps we may ascend to God.†   (source)
  • The declivity of the upper surface, from the circumference to the centre, is the natural cause why all the dews and rains, which fall upon the island, are conveyed in small rivulets toward the middle, where they are emptied into four large basins, each of about half a mile in circuit, and two hundred yards distant from the centre.†   (source)
  • Then staid the fervid wheels, and in his hand
    He took the golden compasses, prepared
    In God's eternal store, to circumscribe
    This universe, and all created things:
    One foot he centered, and the other turned
    Round through the vast profundity obscure;
    And said, Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds,
    This be thy just circumference, O World!†   (source)
  • Long time in even scale
    The battle hung; till Satan, who that day
    Prodigious power had shown, and met in arms
    No equal, ranging through the dire attack
    Of fighting Seraphim confused, at length
    Saw where the sword of Michael smote, and felled
    Squadrons at once; with huge two-handed sway
    Brandished aloft, the horrid edge came down
    Wide-wasting; such destruction to withstand
    He hasted, and opposed the rocky orb
    Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield,
    A vast circumference.†   (source)
  • Golbasto Momarem Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue, most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter: his most sublime majesty proposes t†   (source)
  • It is in length three glomglungs (which make about fifty-four English miles,) and two and a half in breadth; as I measured it myself in the royal map made by the king's order, which was laid on the ground on purpose for me, and extended a hundred feet: I paced the diameter and circumference several times barefoot, and, computing by the scale, measured it pretty exactly.†   (source)
  • There is a place
    (If ancient and prophetic fame in Heaven
    Err not)—another World, the happy seat
    Of some new race, called Man, about this time
    To be created like to us, though less
    In power and excellence, but favoured more
    Of him who rules above; so was his will
    Pronounced among the Gods, and by an oath
    That shook Heaven's whole circumference confirmed.†   (source)
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