circumference

• The portion of the map lying beneath the centre represents the portion of the sky lying between the point overhead and a certain part of the horizon--the part in fact corresponding to the particular part of the circumference which is turned downwards. —  Half-Hours with the Stars A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations
• Each course was thus built from its centre to its circumference, and as all the courses from the foundation to a height of thirty feet were built in this way, the tower, up to that height, became a mass of solid stone, as strong and immovable as the Bell Rock itself. —  The Lighthouse
• It measured a hundred and twenty feet in circumference, and, when standing, must have been little, if at all, short of five hundred feet in height Surrounded as they were by such noble and stupendous works of God, the travellers could not find words to express their feelings. —  The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
• The elevated interior seemed as barren as the circumference, and no neighbouring island was to be seen in all the wide field of vision. —  The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables
• It was a hundred years old at least; about twelve feet in circumference, and sixty feet high. —  In the Track of the Troops

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