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"Polygon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with the projectile, when the war ended the very day that Nicholl terminated a new forged armour-plate. It was a masterpiece of its kind. It defied all the projectiles in the world. The captain had it taken to the Washington Polygon and challenged the president of the Gun Club to pierce it. Barbicane, peace having been made, ...
— The Moon-Voyage • Jules Verne
... convince yourself that the geometry master who taught you that a circle was a polygon with an infinite number of sides was more exact and less poetical than you thought him in the days before the riding-school began to reform your judgment on many things. You are conscious of not making a respectable curve in return, and you draw a deep ...
— In the Riding-School; Chats With Esmeralda • Theo. Stephenson Browne
... enough in London, and sometimes even a few to spare; but I wanted a cat of peculiar order, and of a Saracenic cast. I walked miles and miles; till at last I found him residing in a very old-fashioned house in the Polygon, at Somers Town. Here was a genuine paradise of cats, carefully ministered to and guarded by a maiden lady of Portuguese birth and of advanced maturity. Each of these nine cats possessed his own ...
— George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris - From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore • R. D. Blackmore |
Words linked to "Polygon" : nonagon, quadrilateral, trigon, trilateral, dodecagon, quadrangle, tetragon, isogon, pentagon, plane figure, octagon, heptagon, two-dimensional figure, undecagon, triangle, hexagon, decagon |
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