To the west of Weymouth stands the fifty-mile- long arc of Lyme Bay.

The cohort had formed in a long arc at the landing.

The long arc of spring steel drew easily and gracefully to the full.

Slowly the moon traced its long arc in the heavens.

It traversed a long arc and landed on the floor.

He looked at his forearm, where the long arc of a welt shone red.

We ate in the main control room, inside the long arc of the command console.

A long arc is established between the terminals A B of the first induction coil.

To Coates, the long arc of history was simply too strong, too rooted in human nature.

I see this in some ways as the tail end of a long arc of history.

Touching the window glass, she slid her fingers in a long arc across the condensation there.

The two, clinging together, hung there a moment, swinging to and fro in a long arc.

The craft swung in a long arc until it was heading back the way it had come.

It shot out in a long arc over the water, disappearing into the current with a plunk.

The dolphins had completed their long arc around the city and had almost finished their return trip.

As you yourself have pointed out on more than one occasion, fiction writers have a long arc.'