gravitate

It ended with the double hypothesis: either the attraction of the moon would draw it to herself, and the travelers thus attain their end; or that the projectile, held in one immutable orbit, would gravitate around the lunar disc to all eternity.

But no one was there who could assist him, not even Malicorne; who, a little uneasy at finding himself in the presence of so many persons of good birth, and not a little discouraged by Montalais's bantering glances, had described a circle, and by degrees succeeded in getting a few paces from the prince, behind the group of maids of honor, and nearly within reach of Mademoiselle Aure's voice, she being the planet around which he, as her attendant satellite, seemed constrained to gravitate. As he recovered his self-possession, Raoul fancied he recognized voices on his right hand that were familiar to him, and he perceived De Wardes, De Guiche, and the Chevalier de Lorraine, conversing together.

They won't be there today, of course!" At this moment he noticed that he was close to their house; he had felt that he must gravitate to this spot eventually, and, with a beating heart, he mounted the verandah steps.

I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me -- not hang by the beam of the scale and try to weigh less -- not suppose a case, but take the case that is; to travel the only path I can, and that on which no power can resist me.

Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity; they gravitate to each other, and cannot otherwise:--

"It is the same, more or less, with all European countries, but the Saxon temperament, with its mixture of philosophy and philistinism, more than any other, gravitates towards the life mechanical.

For this reason, Prince Charles tends to gravitate toward older women like Camilla Parker-Bowles who is one year his senior.

Most of the programs are currently focusing on large scale human sequencing, and thus the majority will gravitate to Illumina's NovaSeq systems, Quirk tells investors in a research note titled "How Sequencing Is Taking Over The World."

Merryn was person gravitate Merryn's Clare "We have never wanted Merryn's death to be in vain and we hope this inquest conclusion is a milestone in the way ME patients are treated from now on.

By contrast, the small community of family, friends, and colleagues who gravitate around Isiban and Marc seem to prefigure the sort of multiracial community that is the stated goal of postapartheid South Africa (the novel ends with a call for "a true rainbow nation").

Even though he has worked in films like Don 2 and A Mighty Heart, he found himself gravitate towards Pakistan.

"The things that I naturally gravitate toward seem to be the same things that a lot of buyers gravitate toward, and that's a good thing," she said.