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Revolved 50 to 100 times a minute, the blood spreads into a thin film on the sides of the drum.

From Time Magazine Archive

The lovely lady in her mind Revolved the plot her maid designed, And prompt the gain and risk to scan She step by step approved the plan.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Achilles, with quick pain possessed, Revolved two purposes in his strong breast; and in a third: — — Yet never to her wishes won The just mind of the brave Bellerophon.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

Mature beyond his years, the queen admired His sage reply, and with her train retired; There in her chamber as she sate apart, Revolved his words, and placed them in her heart.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

He, then illumin’d by the triple blaze, Watch’d close the lights, busy from hearth to hearth, 420 But in his soul, meantime, far other thoughts Revolved, tremendous, not conceived in vain.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William