Example Sentences

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Revolves the point “to be or not to be!”

From The Love-chase by Morley, Henry

I know the appointed hour, I greet my office well, Never faster, never slower Revolves the fatal wheel!

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The left eye expands,   Grows as round as an owl's eye, Revolves like a wheel.

From Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? by Soskice, Juliet M.

And swift and swift, in wondrous guise, Revolves the earth in splendour bright, The radiant hues of Paradise Alternating with deepest night.

From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred

"Verse softens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings, Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things."

From Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side by Vaux, Frances Bowyer