"Solid figure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and then a less solid figure. That is because her strength does not lie in solidity at all. She is a thing of flame and rushing wind. One half of her is akin to the storms of Wuthering Heights, the other belongs to her unseen abiding-place. Both sides ...
— The Three Brontes • May Sinclair
... rhombus is so called from its resemblance to a form of spinning-top (ῥομβος {rhombos} from ῥεμβω {rhembô}, to spin) and that, just as a parallelogram is a figure formed by two pairs of parallel straight lines, so a parallelepiped is a solid figure bounded by three pairs of parallel planes (παραλληλος {parallêlos}, parallel, and επιπεδος {epipedos}, plane); incidentally, in the latter case, he will be saved from writing 'parallelopiped', a monstrosity which has disfigured not a few textbooks of geometry. Another good example is the word ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various
... he had an apt pupil in his son, Sir Robert Cecil, who, viewed through the ages, while presenting a less solid figure than his father, displays a much more ...
— Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 • Arthur Acheson
... is the figure of a die, comes originally from the Arabic word 'ca'b,' or 'ca'be,' whence the Greeks derived their cubos, and cubeia, which is used to signify any solid figure perfectly square every way—such as the geometrical cube, the die used in play, and the temple at Mecca, which is of the same figure. The Persic name for 'die' is 'dad,' and from this word is derived the name of ...
— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume II (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz
... Qualities we call God, not the name of the sum total is the essential, 644-u. Quarternary formed by the Ternary acting with Unity, 771-m. Quarternary, the Key of all numbers, movements, forms, 771-m. Quaternary a symbol of the Eternal and Creative Principle, 632-l. Quaternary the first solid figure, the pyramid, a symbol of immortality, 633-u. Quaternary the most perfect number and the root of all things, 632-l. Questions concerning God, the Universe, Man, his destiny, 648-649. Questions which ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike |
