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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]).
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. The height of this rock was about twenty stades, and the circuit about sixty.
    — from The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. “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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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

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