On what he first thought was a smooth surface, he noticed shallow etchings on the lid-a series of circular symbols, all virtually identical.

Time, continuity, infinity, completion, the repetition of history, and the self-sufficiency of nature can all be seen within the circular symbol.

Instead of finding information, his book tells him that he is looking in the wrong place, and a strange circular symbol with eight spurs appears.

She turned, and her heart sank: behind, in the darkness, she could see the circular red symbol of the number four express, distant but unmistakable.

Little circular symbols with a red slash of warning through a smoldering coffin nail.

The frieze held round metal disks with other of the more circular symbols.

The lower portion of the rear face is heavily damaged, but a portion of the edge of a circular symbol remains.

I pointed to a rack-mounted blue chassis decorated with a circular symbol showing a slanted line drawn through the image of a leg stepping through an opening.

As his feet touched the marble floor, fitting neatly in his tribe's circular symbol, the opening above his head sealed shut with a thud.

Other strips hung down front and back, indited with vertical rows of red and black circular symbols.