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Perched atop a grassy mound just down the road from Walden Ponds Golf Course, Butler County HQ comfortably straddles a half-circular drive with a wide awning ideal for protecting guests from the rain.
Amanda Michel: The Political Campaign HQ Next Door: OffTheBus Special Ops Photographs 2008
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Desk, chairs, lamp, and a middle-aged man with his back to me, staring out the half-circular window that faced the boulevard.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Firstly we started cleaning the praefurnium, as part of the structure where the half-circular bath is standing, is collapsing.
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This small concert hall consisted of a covered half-circular structure with a radius of ca. 24 meters and a scene building.
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But such a poor metaphrastic and half-circular exposition of vital force would never answer the necessities of that profounder profundity required for the success of modern scientific treatises.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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Drawn on the principle that a minimum of lines and a maximum of description are the best aid to the imagination, this plan of Southwark indicates the main routes of thoroughfare with a few bold strokes, and then tills in the blanks with queer little drawings of churches and inns, the former depicted in delightfully distorted perspective and the latter by two or three half-circular strokes.
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Black; a half-circular spot on the clypeus, a heart-shaped one above it, a spot at the base of the mandibles, the orbits of the eyes, interrupted at their vertex, yellowish white, the palpi of the same colour, and a broad incomplete annulus on the antennæ beyond their middle.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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We found, a few minutes 'walk from this spot, the remains of a half-circular Etruscan amphitheatre, in fairly good preservation.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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This was a half-circular piece of tin, perforated with a punch from the concave side, and nailed by its edges to a block of wood.
Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer Cecil B. Hartley
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It is like some of the half-circular phrases we are likely to meet with in the categories of modern materialistic science, such as the "correlated correlates of motion," the
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
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