Spheres
[sfɪr]
Examples
- But the same hand which has cast the celestial spheres in space, has traced their course in the heavens, and does not allow them to wander at random to disturb and destroy each other. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- These are but typical of hundreds of men who could be named who have risen from work at the key to become recognized leaders in differing spheres of activity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Delightful, charming, superior, first circles, spheres, lines, ranks, every thingand Mrs. Elton was wild to have the offer closed with immediately. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The astronomer predicts an eclipse, and on the minute the spheres swing into line, verifying, beyond all doubt, the correctness of the laws predicated for their movements. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Kindergarten employments are calculated to give information regarding cubes, spheres, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There are spheres in which we may act, ample enough even for my ambition. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Then knowledge and opinion having distinct powers have also distinct spheres or subject-matters? Plato. The Republic.
- The scientific man and the cultured man belong to two different spheres which, though coming together at times in the same individual, are never fully reconcil ed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Before the throne, was a large table filled with globes and spheres, and mathematical instruments of all kinds. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Hawkesworth will enliven our progress with his cheerful, sensible converse, and Stanley accompany the music of the spheres. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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