Angell suggests that the display of emotion in such cases may be due to past experience, generating habits which would require only the stimulation of cerebral reflex
arcs. Rage and some forms of fear, however, may, he thinks, gain expression without the brain.
Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung through unthinkable
arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum.
You or I walking beneath the
arcs of Main Street, or Broadway, or State Street, could not have moved more surely or with a tenth the speed of the agile ape-man through the gloomy mazes that would have baffled us entirely.
Carter Druse grew pale; he shook in every limb, turned faint, and saw the statuesque group before him as black figures, rising, falling, moving unsteadily in
arcs of circles in a fiery sky.
The cudgel was swinging in the
arc which ended upon my upturned face when a bolt of myriad-legged horror hurled itself through the doorway full upon the breast of my executioner.
The schooner was run into the wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern boat, Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long living
arc of a leap.
This vacuum economised the graphite points between which the luminous
arc was developed--an important point of economy for Captain Nemo, who could not easily have replaced them; and under these conditions their waste was imperceptible.
The sledge, shortening this route, took a chord of the
arc described by the railway.
From one lofty branch the agile creature swung with Clayton through a dizzy
arc to a neighboring tree; then for a hundred yards maybe the sure feet threaded a maze of interwoven limbs, balancing like a tightrope walker high above the black depths of verdure beneath.
well, because everyone is going: and besides- I am not Joan of
Arc or an Amazon."
There was a flash of the great sword as the outlaw swung it to the full of his mighty strength through an
arc that passed above the shoulders of Peter of Colfax, and the grinning head rolled upon the floor, while the loathsome carcass, that had been a baron of England, sunk in a disheveled heap among the rushes of the great hall of the castle of Leybourn.
Then, plunging into the Gulf of Mexico, it subtends the
arc formed by the coast of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana; then skirting Texas, off which it cuts an angle, it continues its course over Mexico, crosses the Sonora, Old California, and loses itself in the Pacific Ocean.