What is "discus"

Usage examples of "discus".

Considering the crooked sword, the Graeaean subterfuge, the rear-view approaches to Medusa and Cetus, the far-darting Hermean sandals, even the trajectory of the discus that killed Acrisius, would it be fair to generalize that dodge and indirection were my conscious tactics, and, if so, were they characterological or by Athenian directive?

He feared that his men would lose their sense and make a mad charge to glory instead of retiring after each short attack to r form and charge again, and so he kept encouraging them to show caution and keep their disci pline.

The city gate was closed, but a four-man guard stood watch at the small door and upon presentation of our copper disci, they allowed us through.

Leaving Gunnar and Hnefi with the gate prefect to purchase entry disci for the others, I ran over to where the guardsmen stood at their post.

And so Giver-of-Life had sent the gan as his emissar- ies, to discipline the wayward People, to teach them to live decently and to cure the sick, to govern fairly, to teach them how to plant and harvest, and how to disci- pline those who failed to please Giver-of-Life.

God only knew what over the blades of the Amazon sword plant, settling on the Madagascar lace where the recent wave of immigrants seemed to have thinned considerably since their arrival as a glittering turquoise discus passed trailing a shred of black skirt from its jaws and the sea horses, gliding past the walls of the castle with all the diminutive rectitude of the knights of King Richard the Lionhearted raising the siege at Acre, only for it to fall once again to the gleaming ranks of the Saracens a century later ending the last Crusade and, with it, the kingdom of Jerusalem, were now nowhere to be seen.

Si Cwan backrolled, putting a short distance between himself and Dackow, and then he threw the flooring as if it were a discus.

For one thing, I thought Seriphean Dictys would be pleased to see it again, so I'd kept in it all my souvenirs: a piece of the net he'd fished us ashore with, the crescent scabbard of Hermes's sickle, couple of rocks from giant Atlas after I'd stoned him, fern-corals from Joppa (I'd laid Medusa's head on seaweed while I skewered Cetus), Andromeda's leg-irons, the Larissan discus, and the letters.

The Bioroid fired in midair, with a Bioroid-size pistol shaped something like a fat discus held edge-on, and took cover immediately when it hit the ground.

He had kept ahead in all the earlier run-offs for the discus throw.

Had Odysseus not participated in and won the discus throw, he would not have been invited to the palace of Alcinous and been given the gifts that proved so important on his journey home.

But when the judges came around to watch the discus throwers and to assign distances, they took one look at Ty's performance and gave him the farthest throwing box.

As Malgak raced to him he held the buckler like the discus throwers of Greece and let fly from the kneeling position.

An outer ring of white-uniformed human court officials, an inner ring of species-varied, extravagantly emblazoned courtiers and an outer core, again mixed-species, of Ascendancy, Omnocracy, Administrata and Cessoria - Fassin recognised most of them from the news and the few formal visits he'd had to make to the court over the years - formed semicircular tiers of importance around the being in the centre: the Hierchon Ormilla himself, resplendent in his giant platinum-sheathed discus of an environment suit, floating humming just above the highest platform, the dark creature's great gaping face visible through the suit's forward diamond window .

Because by that time Boomer had already broken state records in both the shot put and the discus.