"Concentrical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The most accessible statement of the geographical fancies here referred to is in Vishnu Purana, Book II, chap. IV. The Sea of Milk is the sixth of the seven concentric seas which surround Jambudvipa and Mt. Meru. It divides the sixth of the concentric continents or Sakadvipa from the seventh or Pushkara-dvipa. The inhabitants of Sakadvipa worship Vishnu as the Sun and have this much reality that at any rate, according ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Charles Eliot
... Otterbourne Common and Hill, which is crossed by the old high road from London to Southampton, the very steep hill having had a cutting made through it. The Cranbury side of the road has the village cricket ground on it, though burrowed under by the concentric brick-work circles of the Southampton Company's water works, which are entered by a little staircase tower, cemented over so as to be rather ornamental than otherwise. Beside it, there is a beautiful view of a delightful home landscape; stretching out on the ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge
... before them, beneath the curving bank, which was fringed with bushes. Major Russel, with a small party, was sent cautiously forward to feel for the enemy, and to bring on the battle. He was moving directly into the curve, where a concentric fire would soon cut down every one ...
— David Crockett: His Life and Adventures • John S. C. Abbott
... stringy bark gum furnishes a strong, durable timber, used for shipbuilding and other purposes. E. robusta contains large cavities in its stem, between the annual concentric circles of wood, filled with a red gum. Many of the species yield gums and astringent principles and also a species of manna. The timber of these trees has been pronounced to be unsurpassed for strength and durability by any other timber known. The leaves of these trees are placed vertically to the ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders
... one and noted its peculiar smoothness, its remarkable weight for its size; he noted, too, that it was veined with concentric markings, like a series of ...
— Spawn of the Comet • Harold Thompson Rich
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