The Mercedes was beginning to turn its slow half-circle. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Luck and Trouble]
I'd put the rest of the people on the other half-circle. From Wordnik.com. [The Forever War]
Reacher squirmed around, a silent half-circle on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Luck and Trouble]
Scattered along it in a half-circle were hundreds of penguins. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
Mrs. Gillis, Landy and Davy joined to complete the half-circle. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
She swept a hand in a half-circle, and then gave a little laugh. From Wordnik.com. [A Mating in the Wilds] Reference
The objects in order are: a mat, a half-circle, a noose, a lion. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
But the inner half-circle may have eight only, as in our example. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference
As it was, she rested in the strong and tender half-circle of one. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of the Wind] Reference
I make a half-circle for his gut, a squiggle for the telephone cord. From Wordnik.com. [Honey Nut Cheerios and Chocolate Milk] Reference
The result will be that, instead of the Earth describing the half-circle. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
The seven girls seated around him in a half-circle on the grass giggled. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
Squatting before her in a half-circle were the girls and boys of the house. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
Montford, flanked in a half-circle by her perfumed and white-gloved admirers. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Below the arches, in the choir stalls, a long half-circle of stately figures. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
The cross-piece had now become almost a half-circle, quite ten feet in diameter. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
Simon stood below him in a half-circle of Roman nobles and Charles's commanders. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
It was an old trick -- making the frightened but fleet animals run in a half-circle. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference
Beyond Faisal, a half-circle of guards fingered their hilts and assessed their chances. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Bob cut into the sod with his feet and swung around in a half-circle, bringing up short. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
The little girls stood in an accusing half-circle and fired their questions in a broadside. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
The comb, in the shape of a half-circle, was a showy red color adorned with bright flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
Hardport in a big half-circle, of which this place where we are now is pretty nearly the centre. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Automobilists or, Jack Danby in the Woods] Reference
Bright lay down on the carpet, and began flapping and brushing it in a half-circle with his tail. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, February 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People] Reference
The high bank loomed up and the sled turned a half-circle and came close under a protecting bluff. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
To play this game it is best for the players to arrange themselves in a half-circle round the room. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
Lady Day — in horse form now — stood like a stag at bay, surrounded by a panting half-circle of dire-wolves. From Wordnik.com. [Music to My Sorrow]
The chiefs and braves sat in a half-circle at these feasts and the food was passed to them from steaming kettles. From Wordnik.com. [Timid Hare] Reference
The secretary slipped quietly from the room while the visitors drew up in a half-circle around the chairman's desk. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day] Reference
My grandfather pulled three lawn chairs into a half-circle facing the highway, and then another for himself, next to me. From Wordnik.com. [Fifth of July] Reference
When at length he was marched into the lodge he saw the councillors seated on the floor in a half-circle round a small fire. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
Meanwhile the driver would be crawling through a slow half-circle, ready to meet the kid again on the other side of the lot. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Luck and Trouble]
Sultan, stood in a half-circle round the throne with their arms crossed, while Aladdin's mother presented them to the Sultan. From Wordnik.com. [Aladdin and the Magic Lamp] Reference
The one carrying Rowan made a short, sharp half-circle in the parking lot, its headlights splashing wetly against other cars. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
A great throng of people were gathered around it in a half-circle, their backs to the open glade, their faces towards the oak. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
A heavy-jowled man with overhanging black eyebrows, he was seated in a half-circle cut into the centre of one side of the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
At one end of the hall, in a half-circle, were five booths, in which were merchants, clad in the costumes of different countries; a. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Versailles] Reference
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