The lines curved themselves in semicircles above their eyes.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Behind, closely clustered, were our kite-balloons, like snow-clouds where they were caught by the light, staring down over the battle, and in wide semicircles about the salient our heavy guns were firing ceaselessly with dull, enormous hammer-strokes, followed by the shrill cry of travelling shells making the barrage before our men, and having blockhouses for their targets and building walls of flying steel between the enemy and our attacking troops.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
The line in which the plane of the earth's motion is intersected by that of the moon divides the moon's path into two semicircles.
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball