He would have suffered nationally, but he has now and then to suffer so still, for they cannot have the same measure of his nationality as he, and they necessarily tread upon its subtile circumferences here and there.
"London Films"
W.D. Howells
She held up her bit of paper as she spoke, scrawled over with intersecting circles and arcs and ellipses, against whose curves and circumferences she had written names: Marchbanks, Hadden, Goldthwaite, Holabird.
"We Girls: A Home Story"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
Their circumferences approach or intersect each other-so that, in fact, the whole country is under a network of them.
"The Boy Hunters"
Captain Mayne Reid