Annually as a small boy I used to be taken to the Crystal Palace, and there a recognized part of the programme in each visit was to spend half an hour in solemnly pedalling backwards and forwards on a semicircular track on a machine miscalled a velocipede.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
And while he talked and laughed stridently, two semicircular dents appeared in his lean cheeks, giving his face a hard, sarcastic expression.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
Other peculiarities were the division of the eastern extremity into three semicircular or square recesses, each containing an altar, the use of an elaborately carved screen shutting off the choir or chancel from the nave and aisles, and the introduction of galleries above the latter for the use of the women of the congregation.
"Architecture"
Nancy R E Meugens Bell