CIRCLE

They were all about him and the fire, in a narrow circle, and he could see them plainly in the firelight lying down, sitting up, crawling forward on their bellies, or slinking back and forth.

At such moments, when his dogs snarled, the whole circle would be agitated, the wolves coming to their feet and pressing tentatively forward, a chorus of snarls and eager yelps rising about him.

But this circle had a continuous tendency to draw in upon him.

"There exist," said Barbicane, "several kinds of circles on the surface of the moon, and it is easy to see that Copernicus belongs to the radiating class.

It was a ringed mountain nine thousand feet high, and one of those circles so numerous on this satellite.

"A singular idea," replied Nicholl; "but it is probable that Kepler did not know the true dimensions of these circles, for the digging of them would have been the work of giants quite impossible for the Selenites."

on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere.

Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle through which a new one may be described.

The highest society then consisted, and I think always consist, of four sorts of people: rich people who are received at Court, people not wealthy but born and brought up in Court circles, rich people who ingratiate themselves into the Court set, and people neither rich nor belonging to the Court but who ingratiate themselves into the first and second sets.

He soon realized, however, that the circles in which he moved were not the highest, and that though he was received in the highest spheres he did not belong to them.

And all the while the silent and wolfish circle waited to finish off whichever dog went down.

He saw the silent circle, with gleaming eyes, lolling tongues, and silvery breaths drifting upward, closing in upon him as he had seen similar circles close in upon beaten antagonists in the past.