The rose window of the west end, though of grand proportions, appears to fail utterly as a supreme effort because of the flatness and depression given to its circumferential outline.
"The Cathedrals of Northern France"
Francis Miltoun
Nevertheless, it is a phase of the fattish man's perversity that, rejecting the direct, the circumstantial and the circumferential testimony which abounds about him, he too often awaits confirmation of his growing suspicions at the hands of outsiders and bystanders before he is willing openly to admit that condition of fatness which for long has been patent to the most casual observer.
"One Third Off"
Irvin S. Cobb
The circumferential border is attached within the junction of the sclerotic cornea.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler