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  • But there she was, holding court in the middle of the ante-room sur - rounded by a host of delighted old friends and acquain - tances.

    The Bellini Bride Reid, Michelle 2002

  • The various states — whether great or small — exerted a pull or a pressure on one another, and this bore some rela - tionship to their respective masses and to their dis - tances from one another.

    BALANCE OF POWER HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • Seeliger (1895) altered Newton's law of gravity by the addition of a repulsive term which is very small for small distances but becomes very large at large dis - tances from the observer.

    COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850 LLOYD MOTZ 1968

  • It was the strangest of sensations to find ourselves in a chartless wilderness within sixty or seventy miles of Paris, and to wander, as we did, for hours across a high heathery waste, with wide blue dis - [Page 84] tances to north and south, and in all the scene not a landmark by means of which we could make a guess at our whereabouts.

    Fighting France 1915

  • These phantom rows mon colors create a strong visual fussy detail. and columns have real presence and will link that can carry across spatial dis - be used to govern distances between tances and from page to page. elements on the page.

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  • These phantom rows mon colors create a strong visual fussy detail. and columns have real presence and will link that can carry across spatial dis - be used to govern distances between tances and from page to page. elements on the page.  3 of 10  One look

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  • CHAPTER A Flurry of Facts Trigonometry involves countless relationships among lines, angles, and dis - tances.

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  • For better acceptance of prospective manure3 (it has more nutrients than both chicken and cattle Jatropha cultivation among farmers, it is important that manure) and would simultaneously serve as biopesticide / collection centres are available within easily reachable dis - insecticide due to the presence of potent but bio-degradable tances and at reduced transportation cost.

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  • '' The Court, at the same timc that it acquits the prisoner of the second charge, deems it a duty in justice to Major Mein's character, to state, that in thf course of the trial, several circum | tances have transpired fully sufficient, in the opinion of the Court, to exonerate.

    Sporting Magazine 1812

  • We should first accustom our eye to contemplate them one by one, divide them into classes, compare their several dis - tances, arrange them into one aggregate, so will the disorder which at first puzzled us cease, and we shall have a luminous, agreeable prospect before us.

    Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics Georg Joachim Zollikofer 1812

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