semicircling

Updated: July 2, 2025

I arose about seven, and found that the upper part of my nose, and the region round about, was grievously discolored; and at the angle of the left eye there is a great spot of almost black purple, and a broad streak of the same hue semicircling beneath either eye, while green, yellow, and orange overspread the circumjacent country.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.