1 I thought to find one stubborn, at the least; but my one cogged circle fits into all their various wheels, and they revolve.
2 In a minute or two, however, it began slowly to revolve, and then the men upon each side of it sprang to work.
3 They were like those double stars which revolve round and round each other, and from a distance appear to be one.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool 4 This done, the Father revolves inly another counsel, and prepares to separate Juturna from her brother's arms.
5 We learned that the earth is flat and that the sun revolves around it, which causes the day and the night.
6 Society is a revolving body which is apt to be judged according to its place in each man's heaven; and at present it was turning its illuminated face to Lily.
7 Lily, for all her dissatisfied dreaming, had never really conceived the possibility of revolving about a different centre: it was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
8 Then she was up, her knees like water, her stomach revolving a thousand times a second, her eyes filmed, her ears full of roaring.
9 At intervals, he ran close up to the revolving border of the confusion, and prying into the heart of it with his pike, sought to prick out the object of his resentment.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 10 Such thoughts inly revolving in her kindled bosom, the goddess reaches Aeolia, the home of storm-clouds, the land laden with furious southern gales.
11 Aeneas goes forth, and leaves the cavern with fixed eyes and sad countenance, his soul revolving inly the unseen issues.
12 By this token in thirty revolving years shall Ascanius found a city, Alba of bright name.
13 And as a lion sees from some lofty outlook a bull stand far off on the plain revolving battle, and flies at him, even such to see is Turnus' coming.
14 Even now, when I am gravely revolving the matter, it is almost impossible to realise that the cause of all our trouble is still existent.
15 As he walked on slowly, timing his pace to theirs, he watched Corley's head which turned at every moment towards the young woman's face like a big ball revolving on a pivot.