1 Round the rock he had drawn a circle, such as we had found shelter in last night.
2 When I left Madam Mina sleeping within the Holy circle, I took my way to the castle.
3 I flew to him, for the Holy circle did not now keep me back; so did the two doctors.
4 I feared for my dear Madam Mina when these weird figures drew near and circled round.
5 Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great whirling circles.
6 And so the circle goes on ever widening, like as the ripples from a stone thrown in the water.
7 The wind came now in fierce bursts, and the snow was driven with fury as it swept upon us in circling eddies.
8 The air seems full of specks, floating and circling in the draught from the window, and the lights burn blue and dim.
9 Did I not, I would soon have learned, for the wheeling figures of mist and snow came closer, but keeping ever without the Holy circle.
10 When I stepped into the circle where Madam Mina slept, she woke from her sleep, and, seeing, me, cried out in pain that I had endured too much.
11 Then for a time there were no blue flames, and we sped onwards through the gloom, with the howling of the wolves around us, as though they were following in a moving circle.
12 This was the being I was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps, for centuries to come he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever-widening circle of semi-demons to batten on the helpless.
13 I kept my eyes fixed on the window, but the wolf drew his head back, and a whole myriad of little specks seemed to come blowing in through the broken window, and wheeling and circling round like the pillar of dust that travellers describe when there is a simoon in the desert.