The broken circle of time is an apt metaphor for my experience of this one and only life we each get to live.

Each offers an attitude suited to the next segment along the uneven edge of time's broken circle.

As I come round time's broken circle, 1 must respond in turn to each changing of the gods.

The broken circle within the community of folks who shared blood or geography or belief with the dead was closed again.

But they seem to form incomplete rings, with clumps of material in a broken circle.

It darted through the broken circle of the bowmen.

A dot within a broken circle indicates a jump.

"And the broken circle of Tarn, your rule does not apply to them?"

Behind me, the spectators moved, fearing a broken circle.

They had arranged themselves in a broken circle in the shade, and were already at work.