to run through life; to run in a circle

We pass Much and Little Marcle, and Dymock, all ancient sounding and through the waking up heart of the half-timbered market town of of Ledbury, dating to the Doomsday Book.

[…] That he had simply without fraud or guile sent him his owne Cimiters with the which he vsed to helpe himselfe couragiously in the wars but that hee had not sent him the hand and arme, which with the Cimiter cleft the Turkes in two, […]

As the player eliminates each wave of 55 aliens, the next wave begins lower than the one previous.