"Discus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in Sparta, the guest of Menelaos, the suitors were more riotous than usual. They diverted themselves in the palace of Odysseus by throwing the discus and javelin. Only Antinoos and the handsome Eurymachos kept apart from them. Then Noemon, who had given Telemachos his ship a few days before, approached them and said: "Antinoos, I would gladly know when Telemachos will return from Pylos. I lent him my ship, ...
— Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca - Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece • Homer
... occasion the circus would be turned into a camp, and equestrians and infantry would give a realistic exhibition of battle. Again, there would be athletic games, running, boxing, wrestling, throwing the discus or the spear, and other exercises testing the entire physical system with much thoroughness. One day the amphitheatre would be filled with huge trees, and savage animals would be brought to be hunted down by criminals, captives, or men especially ...
— The Story of Rome From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic • Arthur Gilman
... city of King Teutamias, looking on at some public games. Perseus must needs meddle in the exercises, and so managed to fulfill the old prophecy and accidentally slay his grandfather by an unlucky throw of the discus, a kind of ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 • Various
... discus was a round, flat piece of stone or metal, and the athletes tried to see who ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.
... nucleus and nucleolus (the germinal vesicle and spot) are very distinct. The wall of the follicle consists, in the mammal, of several layers of cells, the membrana granulosa (or "granulosa" simply); the ovum lies on its outer side embedded in a mass of cells, discus proligerus, separated from actual contact with the ovum by a zona pellucida. The ripening follicle moves to the surface of the ovary and bursts, the ovum falls into the body cavity. In Figure 2, a ripe Graafian follicle ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells
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