great-circle

There was one woman at work who one day wore some kind of skirt with suspenders and a white shirt, and the suspenders the math department could not help noticing each took a distinctly great-circle route from shoulder to skirt.

Breast implants. Ann Althouse 2009

There was one woman at work who one day wore some kind of skirt with suspenders and a white shirt, and the suspenders the math department could not help noticing each took a distinctly great-circle route from shoulder to skirt.

Breast implants. Ann Althouse 2009

I am not a geologist, but it seems to me that a planetary network of great-circle following, perfectly straight, nodally connected channels having beds graded so as to convey water from point to point, if it did exist, might be a devil of a thing to explain by nonintelligent causes.

Life on Mars? The real lesson from Lowell - The Panda's Thumb 2006

I am not a geologist, but it seems to me that a planetary network of great-circle following, perfectly straight, nodally connected channels having beds graded so as to convey water from point to point, if it did exist, might be a devil of a thing to explain by nonintelligent causes.

Life on Mars? The real lesson from Lowell - The Panda's Thumb 2006

Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing, and the doctors prescribe for diseases of the skin merely.

Walden 2004

Hosmer asked Ogg to enter the bearings on a great-circle chart of the North Pacific Ocean that was kept in the intelligence office on Market Street in San Francisco.

DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

Hosmer asked Ogg to enter the bearings on a great-circle chart of the North Pacific Ocean that was kept in the intelligence office on Market Street in San Francisco.

DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

Hosmer asked Ogg to enter the bearings on a great-circle chart of the North Pacific Ocean that was kept in the intelligence office on Market Street in San Francisco.

DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

Hosmer asked Ogg to enter the bearings on a great-circle chart of the North Pacific Ocean that was kept in the intelligence office on Market Street in San Francisco.

DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

Seventy uneventful minutes later, TR turned back east, taking the great-circle route for the Straits of Gibraltar.

The Sum of all Fears Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1991