1 Amphialus excelled all the others in jumping, while at throwing the disc there was no one who could approach Elatreus.
2 So he hurried up without even taking his cloak off, and seized a disc, larger, more massive and much heavier than those used by the Phaeacians when disc-throwing among themselves.
3 Young men," said he, "come up to that throw if you can, and I will throw another disc as heavy or even heavier.
4 A needle scraped a disc; chuff, chuff chuff; then having found the rut, there was a roll and a flutter which portended God.
5 Then, holding each other's hand, they were again silent, and the shadow on the moon's disc grew a little larger.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness 6 The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ... 7 I reached him just as the sun was going down, and from his window saw the red disc sink.
8 He too gazed at the pale disc of the moon, now nearly veiled, and seemed to meditate.
9 Several discs of metal, old coins apparently, such as I hold here, were scattered over the bottom of the box, but it contained nothing else.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 10 They had spent the morning raking among the ashes of the burned wood-pile, and besides the charred organic remains they had secured several discoloured metal discs.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER 11 Meanwhile the suitors were throwing discs or aiming with spears at a mark on the levelled ground in front of Ulysses' house, and were behaving with all their old insolence.