"Disk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... distant drone, which had been audible for some time, was gradually becoming a steady humming roar. A few moments later and a belated hydro-aeroplane passed across the face of the moon, a dragon-fly silhouette against the shining disk. ...
— Shavings • Joseph C. Lincoln
... white or blue cotton cloth. (Plate LXIX-LXX). These garments are frequently decorated with embroidered designs and are finished at the shoulders and knees with a cotton fringe. The trousers are supported at the waist by means of a belt, and below reach nearly to the ankles.[100] An incised silver disk is attached to the front of the jacket, while ornaments of beads, seeds, and alligators' teeth ...
— The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao - The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition • Fay-Cooper Cole
... the full disk of the moon, which was beginning to sink behind the poplars. "Why," thought he to himself, "am I not a ...
— Timar's Two Worlds • Mr Jkai
... Earth the platform looked to be a lifeless, lonely disk, but within it, hundreds of spacemen and ...
— Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet • Harold Leland Goodwin
... a tin plate covered with baize, solicited the pecuniary contributions of the faithful. On approaching the plaintiff, however, he himself slipped a love-token upon the plate and pushed it towards her. That love-token was a lozenge—a small disk, I have reason to believe, concocted of peppermint and sugar, bearing upon its reverse surface the simple words, 'I love you!' I have since ascertained that these disks may be bought for five cents a dozen—or at considerably less than one half cent for the single lozenge. Yes, gentlemen, the ...
— Openings in the Old Trail • Bret Harte
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