Literary notes about Circuit (AI summary)
The word "circuit" takes on a variety of meanings in literature, shifting effortlessly between physical, metaphorical, legal, and technical realms. In many narratives, it describes a literal journey or encircling route that characters traverse, as when someone moves around a clump of reeds or wanders through city streets ([1], [2], [3]). In historical and travel texts, its use conjures images of measured routes or defined boundaries, whether referring to the course of a ship or the perimeter of an ancient city ([4], [5], [6]). Moreover, the term extends into the technical and scientific vocabulary, denoting arrangements in electrical systems and mechanical operations, as well as complex networks that underlie modern communication ([7], [8], [9]). Legal literature, too, borrows the concept in a specialized way to describe judicial circuits and the itinerant nature of early legal systems ([10], [11], [12]). Even within poetic and metaphorical contexts, “circuit” hints at completeness and an all-encompassing cycle, symbolically linking disparate elements of experience ([13], [14]).
- She made one circuit round the clump of reeds, was beginning a second, and suddenly quivered with excitement and became motionless.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - You may make as large a circuit as you please, but before the sun sets you must return to the place you started from.
— from What Men Live By, and Other Tales by graf Leo Tolstoy - In the morning, with my tools upon my shoulder, eating my morsel of black bread as I go, I make a circuit by the prison, on my way to my work.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - I alone compassed the circuit of heaven, and walked in the bottom of the deep...
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - The height of this rock was about twenty stades, and the circuit about sixty.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian - The palace itself (as well as he could remember) was, in one direction, two miles long, and might have been altogether about seven in circuit.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - As the diaphragm approaches the magnet a circuit is sent in one direction; as it leaves it, in the other.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - Consequently speech produces rapidly alternating currents in the circuit, their duration and intensity depending on the nature of the sound.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - At the contraction, where the [Pg 180] speed of travel is much greater than elsewhere in the circuit, most heat will be produced.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - “Olya, I don’t care about your property qualification, nor the Circuit Courts . . .”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - This suit was begun in May, 1873, in the United States circuit court for western North Carolina.
— from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney - Martin Van Buren, who figured as a sort of peacemaker, proposed the retention of the Chancery and Supreme Courts, and the creation of circuit judges.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Uzziel, half these draw off, and coast the south With strictest watch; these other wheel the north; Our circuit meets full west.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton - All depends on the juncture at which, so to speak, the sexual circuit is completed and the emotional currents begin to circulate.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana