Close-to Sentence Examples

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  • It was wandering around, getting close to Destiny.

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  • She was so close to achieving her goal.

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  • Lifting the covers, he climbed into bed and moved close to her.

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  • She cuddled close to him and lifted her face for his affection.

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  • Reaching up, she turned off the light and then moved close to him, unbuttoning his shirt.

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  • It's getting close to supper, so I'd better go in.

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  • She slid over, cuddling close to him, her head on his pillow.

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  • He took Carmen by the hand and leaned close to her ear.

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  • The shopping trip was exciting because it was so close to Christmas, but otherwise uneventful.

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  • It must be nice having your land so close to the park.

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  • One evening, close to suppertime, Lisa, Tammy and Sarah were lounging around the pool.

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  • Anyway, hadn't Giddon said that he wouldn't let anything happen to her as long as she was close to him?

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  • She snuggled close to him and his lips found hers again.

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  • When she decided Yancey wasn't around, she started down the path, keeping close to the trees without breaking her promise not to wander in the woods.

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  • She was close to realizing a lifetime goal.

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  • I'm too close to my goal to give up now.

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  • You're asking me to drop everything when I'm so close to achieving my goal.

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  • Without a word, he backed the car until they were close to the one that had pulled out in front of them.

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  • In such a small town, there couldn't be many positions, and the pay wouldn't come close to what she was making in Tulsa.

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  • I talked to the school and they let me take the finals, since I was so close to completing school.

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  • He told me to stay close to the wagons.

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  • Fritz and Royce were squatted close to the fire, probably not wanting to get far from the food.

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  • Good, now stick close to the wagons.

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  • Keep your rifles ready and stay close to each other.

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  • They climbed the dune and kneeled close to the top.

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  • But the black rocks sucked the heat in and held it close to the earth.

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  • That was as close to praise as she was likely to get from him and she smiled her appreciation.

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  • Some people lived their entire lives without ever being close to anyone.

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  • The next day Cade worked close to the house - trying to keep an eye on her, no doubt.

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  • Her arms slid around his neck of their own volition and she pressed close to him passionately returning his affection.

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  • It was the first occasion the dream took place close to the present time; less than four years ago!

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  • Each of us could find separate areas to be alone but remain close to each other.

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  • My mind wasn't close to understanding the ramifications.

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  • No one has ever come this close to catching me!

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  • Quinn bent close to his wife and whispered something in her ear.

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  • Previously, he'd carefully planned his abductions and never came close to getting caught.

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  • None came close to the successful track record of those tips identified as coming from the notorious Psychic Tipster.

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  • As for true abductions; we've located close to fifty.

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  • He swore the tip came from someone, unidentified, but close to the rapper.

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  • He's the only one who is a direct threat and that's due to our coming so close to getting him in the past.

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  • Perhaps I was being unfair but everything we'd been able to do was close to ending with a sad whimper, due to the greed of this woman.

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  • My wife began to cry and snuggled close to me.

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  • Was it because all the stupid clones out there who read this trash lack the brains to come close to finding her?

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  • Howie always has the option of quitting and denying he's the tipster if someone comes close to revealing him.

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  • I was fumbling with the window when I heard heavy footsteps move close to my door.

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  • Molly moved close to her and put her arm about her waist.

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  • I've found four unsolved abductions over a six year period that look very close to his work.

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  • Might he be nearly as close to us as Owen Bryce had been?

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  • Molly looked close to tears when she returned and handed me the instrument.

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  • I could tell from Julie's voice, she was either crying of close to it.

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  • Her murder wasn't close to his style nor was she the right age.

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  • Here I am, so close to the tipster I can smell her; or him.

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  • Each time I've come close to being apprehended, I cunningly slipped away.

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  • We were content to allow him this small title of uniqueness knowing it was killing him to be so close to a scientific miracle with hands tied and mouth gagged against announcing his findings to the world.

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  • I knew he wanted to remain close to Julie so I said nothing further about trying to go back.

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  • It's in the newspapers and magazines but no one but only I with my brilliance have come close to finding the secret!

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  • Try as I might, I couldn't fix the time or the location anywhere close to the present where we wanted to be.

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  • She waited until she was certain he was distracted before she crept across the apartment, keeping as close to the wall farthest from him as possible.

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  • He hadn't thought it as harsh as it was, just like he thought nothing of killing anything in his path, but seeing the look on a normal human's face reminded him he'd been close to losing what humanity he possessed for quite a while.

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  • Yully moved towards him and dragged his fevered body close to the fire again.

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  • In her haste to be close to him, she'd planted a shoulder in his injured chest.

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  • Jule obliged quickly, unwilling to keep the vamp close to his brothers' mates longer than necessary.

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  • He took his place on the sparring field, and Grande leaned close to her.

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  • Will he ever be close to the man I knew?

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  • The Dark One likes to control those close to him.

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  • She crossed her arms, close to panicking.

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  • You were so close to the end, we couldn't take a chance.

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  • But she did want to feel him close to her.

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  • You ain't never poked around in my past and I've sort of kept my business close to the vest.

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  • They had compared Martha's drawing to the contour maps of the area back at Bird Song and decided this was as close to the general area of the mine that any type of roadway touched.

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  • Cynthia scrunched close to Dean's ear, trying to hear the conversation, and offered a word or two as well.

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  • Fitzgerald moved too close to Dean.

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  • They were close to wrapping up the session when deputy Lydia Larkin moved quietly into the room.

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  • One look at Dean told her she was getting close to home.

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  • Even with his poor eye for such things, Dean could see that it was far lovelier that anything close to what their budget could have afforded.

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  • His suspicions concerning Lydia's actions and his continued silence in not reporting them came too close to involving him as an accessory in whatever she might have done.

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  • Half her face was knotted with horrible scars, the other half displaying skin close to the same shade as the white pillowcase beneath her.

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  • Gabriel said nothing, sensing the half-demon's explosive temper was close to the surface.

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  • His scent and heat, the warmth of his magic, the heady sensations of being so close to him … She concentrated on placing her feet and not on his body.

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  • Meeting the Dark One so close to the fortress, then, was not an option.

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  • She gripped his arms and pressed close to him, her warm lips seeking his.

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  • He sighed heavily and rolled over, putting an arm around Carmen's waist and snuggling close to her.

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  • One flip of the switch and she retraced her steps, quietly slipping under the covers to snuggle close to Alex again.

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  • Capturing his neck in the noose of her arms, she snuggled her body close to his.

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  • She was too close to her due date to be running around in the hills.

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  • They found the bull close to the spring, dead and partially consumed, his horns still entangled in brush.

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  • Dawn and Random snorted and crowded close to Princess.

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  • The whole thing didn't take more than an hour, and she delivered a baby weighing close to seventy-five pounds.

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  • After he had been gone for a few minutes, Carmen dragged a chair up close to Alex.

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  • Finally, taking a deep breath, she walked close to the bathroom and leaned against the wall.

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  • She snuggled close to him.

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  • She commiserated with the brown-tinged blossoms left behind by other customers who didn't want to be so close to death.

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  • You are close to crossing the line where you mess with the Future.

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  • After awakening feeling at peace, he was close to pulling a Rhyn and decimating the world around him in an explosion of raw fury.

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  • Gabriel's temper was close to boiling over, for the umpteenth time since he inherited the responsibilities of Death.

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  • The past few months, I've come close to breaking it hundreds of times to keep the underworld from shutting down.

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  • He appeared to be close to eleven or twelve.

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  • She crossed her arms, too aware of how close to the bed she stood.

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  • She stopped a dozen meters before the edge of the forest, wondering if there was any sort of hazard in being so close to whatever it was causing the lake to be green in the first place.

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  • He'd come close to saying too much since arriving at the beach.

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  • Perhaps he feared getting close to her if she was going to die in a few months, seeing as how past-Deidre crushed his heart, too.

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  • At close to seven feet with eyes and hair blacker than night and a permanent scowl, he was what most expected Death to look like.

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  • He was close to seven feet tall, with chiseled features and eyes as black as eternity.

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  • Mercifully, he said nothing, only stood close to her and stared into the same sky.

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  • Hannah stood close to her, and Katie stared at the door, willing their fire to keep the demons at bay.

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  • Everyone who had ever been close to him died horribly.

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  • Kris had come close to breaking the Immortal rules or his own oaths to his father.

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  • He raised an eyebrow, his chin lifting in what she recognized as a look very close to commanding.

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  • Bird Song's going to be close to empty for a few more days until the ice climbers arrive.

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  • Fred was so close to her she couldn't refuse his outstretched hand.

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  • Donnie sat close to his mother doing a Denver Post crossword puzzle.

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  • It makes me feel really close to her.

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  • Fred leaned close to Dean.

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  • But he was standing very close to her.

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  • But Dean stood too close to the back of her chair for her to move.

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  • The young boy snuggled close to his father.

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  • She must have lived close to the stables but there's no telling where she worked.

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  • The state boys figure I'm too close to you to be what somebody calls 'objective'.

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  • I didn't want to say it, but I saw her, real close to where Shipton fell.

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  • As Dean drew close to Bird Song, he resolved to ask his wife point blank if she witnessed Donnie Ryland cutting his stepfather's climbing rope in an attempt to send him to his death.

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  • They were silent for a few moments before he asked, "If you were that close to where Shipton fell, you must have seen Edith."

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  • Although he was close to passing out from lack of air, Connor rasped, "Got it."

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  • Because I was afraid to get close to you.

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  • And are you still afraid to get close to me?

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  • Jackson leaned close to her.

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  • He rolled onto his back pulling her close to his chest.

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  • I can honestly say she has never even come close to being in love.

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  • She moved close to the bars and sat, never losing his gaze, then tilted her head and let out a soft whimper.

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  • Elisabeth moved close to him and lay down again with her head in his lap.

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  • Wait. How did she morph into a wolf, it's not even close to a full moon?

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  • Each cleansing lick from the doe nearly knocked them off their feet, but they staggered close to her for more nourishment.

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  • I think this one is getting close to delivering.

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  • She gently removed his hand from her waist and stepped away from him, repeating the statement in a voice close to a shout.

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  • We've all been keeping our noses too close to the grindstone.

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  • She stepped in between them again, distracting Alex to the point that Josh came close to hitting him.

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  • The goats were staying close to the house today.

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  • It was getting close to feeding time.

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  • He normally keeps the commander close to him.

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  • Well, Dan, it's good for you to know I can put you close to death.

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  • She'd never been so close to a man.

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  • Is that close to what I said?

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  • They were close to her condo; she drove the massive Sky Bridge every day to get to work.

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  • She'd been too tired and cold to remember just how close to home she was.

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  • There are a lot of swamps in Arkansas, so just stick as close to the roads as you can.

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  • The place where Katie touched him in his dream stung.  Rhyn moved out of the drizzle, close to the fire, and peeled off his shirt.  There was a welt resembling a bee sting where she'd touched him.

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  • He moved forward until the sound of the sea and the firmness of the sand suggested he was close to the water's edge.

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  • She named a salary figure close to the small amount Dean drew from the Parkside Police Department.

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  • She was close to completing training to become a physical therapist and would graduate at the end of the summer.

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  • Vinnie sounded close to tears as he coughed on another of Ethel's cigarette butts.

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  • Jonathan Winston never flinched and his smile remained in place as he moved very close to Vinnie, nearly touching him.

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  • He rents an address, not too close to Parkside but not too far away, like maybe Scranton!

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  • Scranton is close to where he grabbed the dough.

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  • Not even close to the same description.

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  • They parked close to the building and, leaving the engine running, Dean made a dash for the office.

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  • They decided against it, cautious about frightening off Byrne if he should get wind of the search and realize someone was this close to finding him.

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  • I'll bet it's close to Interstate 70.

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  • One minute he'd be drinking in the beauty of the countryside and the next feeling a wave of anxiety, realizing what had begun as a mild suspicion was close to culminating in a face-to-face confrontation with Jeffrey Byrne.

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  • Why did you let Byrne stay in the bike tour if you knew we were close to him?

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  • The light was extinguished and Dean heard the door close to silence.

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  • She was about as close to her parents as any child I've ever seen.

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  • Reaching her side, he squatted close to her, his head almost level with hers.

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  • You girls put the presents over here close to Carmen.

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  • These people were as close to family as she would ever have.

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  • It was getting close to noon when Carmen finished weeding in her garden.

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  • I'd rather you didn't get too close to them until they adjust to the change.

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  • In the hallway they knelt close to the wall and he sheltered her in his arms.

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  • She snuggled close to him, her heart racing.

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  • He gently stroked her hair, his voice soft and close to her ear.

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  • Maybe he was getting nervous because he had been this close to getting married once before and she simply didn't show up for the wedding.

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  • She moved close to him and gazed up into those delicious chocolate eyes.

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  • It's about as close to one as I can come right now.

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  • Princess is getting a little close to her due date.

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  • He wouldn't crawl into their bed at midnight and snuggle close to her.

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  • I'd better figure on building a pen close to the house to quarantine the Longhorns in.

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  • Crawling back into bed, he snuggled close to Carmen and put an arm around her waist.

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  • He shouldn't draw attention using magic this close to the Black God's hideout.

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  • You just need to keep close to Jenn.

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  • She'd stood close to him before, normally when he had her in a headlock.

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  • I won't say no to being so close to a naked woman.

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  • If nothing else, we can bury motion sensors a few feet away, if you think the Others will sense anything close to the portal.

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  • Jenn climbed a tree close to the wall then leapt onto the top of the thick, marble wall.

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  • She was close to her goal.

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  • Her emotions still felt too close to the surface; exhaustion would only make them worse.

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  • Her hand dropped, and she eyed a credenza that swept close to her head.

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  • He had a bowl in one hand and pulled the ottoman closer, seating himself close to her.

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  • While she tried to keep close to objects that might provide some sort of cover if attacked, she chose the fastest route possible.

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  • Taran saw the two struggling figures teeter dangerously close to the edge of a pit.

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  • She looked close to being ill but met his gaze squarely.

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  • It was close to water but high enough to escape floods.

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  • I didn't realize it was that close to lunch time.

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  • Every time I get close to you, my heart beats faster.

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  • She came up too close to him and took a step back.

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  • He was never close to his father, but I guess they had a guarded relationship until his Mom and Dad were killed in the plane crash.

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  • Sam eyed her with a fair amount of discomfort, which wasn't surprising because Carmen was close to tears.

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  • She snuggled close to him, delighting in the way his hands caressed her waist and hips.

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  • Carmen, Felipa and even Jonathan worked for almost two hours before they established something close to a normal atmosphere.

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  • At one point, when he appeared to be close to tears, she slipped her hand in his.

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  • She snuggled close to him and when his arms comforted her, she sighed in contentment.

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  • Pulling his head down, she whispered with her lips close to his.

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  • He was close to her age and, though she wouldn't have described him as handsome, there was something about his features that she found attractive.

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  • Brush grew close to the drive, but it was obvious that someone had mown a swath down either side of the drive not long ago.

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  • He leaned close to his aunt and spoke in an audible whisper.

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  • She glanced up at his face - so close to hers - and her pulse quickened.

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  • She ducked under the water and swam a short distance before surfacing to make sure she wasn't close to any rocks.

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  • When she arrived, the mustang was parked so close to the apartment that she had to walk around it to climb the stairs.

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  • It was close to seven on a Sunday morning, which meant they were probably still asleep.

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  • Wouldn't a rabid bobcat be noticed this close to LA?

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  • Toni was almost prancing with her excitement to get close to him.

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  • It was as close to a yes as she was going to get.

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  • It was hard not to be affected by the strength and heat of his body or the fact she was way too close to him.

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  • The former vamp jerked and clutched at his hands at the pain but soon went still as Xander bled him close to dry.

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  • They are close to being equal, with the exception that Jonny is a teenager and can't control his power yet.

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  • She was so close to the edge.

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  • It seemed loud, overwhelming, and she realized she was still close to passing out.

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  • It wasn't what bothered him about Jessi, though he remembered why he long ago took a vow never to let anyone close to him.

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  • Unable to sort through why he was so close to losing it, he wiped the blood from his face onto his arm and trailed her.

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  • When close to he was detected, but he had time to drive the steam launch over the baulks and to explode the torpedo against the "Albemarle" with such success that a hole was made in her and she sank.

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  • The salter waters apparently tend to make their way westwards close to the African coast, and at the bottom the highest salinities have been observed south of Crete.

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  • His station, Philippeville, is close to the shores of the Mediterranean, and sea breezes persisted during the day.

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  • The conductivity, which varies as the product of n into the mobility, will thus vary inversely as the pressure, and so at 36 kilometres will be one hundred times as large as close to the ground.

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  • The district includes several caves, such as Victoria Cave, close to the town, where bones of animals, and stone, bone and other implements and ornaments have been discovered.

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  • When Jack Cade's rebellion occurred in 1450 Waynflete was employed with Archbishop Stafford, the chancellor, to negotiate with the rebels at St Margaret's church, Southwark, close to Winchester House.

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  • The situation was chosen on the consideration of this harbour alone, for the actual site offered many difficulties, steep forest-clad hills rising close to the sea, and rendering reclamation necessary.

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  • East of Cape St Jacques the mountains of Annam come down close to the sea; west of that point, as far as the southern headland of Ca-Mau, the coast-line of Cochin-China runs north-east to south-west for about 160 m.

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  • Or again, a group of them may occupy a fertile plain, a river valley or a tableland,3 or they may stand close to the seashore.

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  • In 294 B.C. he was defeated at Mantineia by Demetrius Poliorcetes, who invaded Laconia, gained a second victory close to Sparta, and was on the point of taking the city itself when he was called t So Plut.

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  • Among public buildings, the Stephenson memorial hall (1879), containing a free library, art and science class-rooms, a theatre and the rooms of the Chesterfield Institute, commemorates George Stephenson, the engineer, who resided at Tapton House, close to Chesterfield, in his later life; he died here in 1848, and was buried in Trinity church.

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  • It is situated between the Fischa and the Leitha and is close to the Hungarian frontier.

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  • All these affluents are on the right, and with the exception of the Arige, which descends from the eastern Pyrcnees, rise in the mountaitis of Auvergne and the southern Cvennes, their sources often lying close to those of the rivers of the Loire and Rhone basins.

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  • The two fleets met south of Cape Scropha, both drawn up from north to south, the land being close to the left flank of the Christians, and the right of the Turks.

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  • He established his royal city on the eastern hill close to the site of the Jebusite Zion, while Jebus, the town on the western side of the Tyropoeon valley, became the civil city, of which Joab, David's leading general, was appointed governor.

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  • They are, from south to north, Osci, Aurunci, Hernici, Marruci, Falisci; with these were no doubt associated the original inhabitants of Aricia and of Sidici -num, of Vescia among the Aurunci, and of Labici close to Hernican territory.

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  • There are large barracks in the neighbourhood, and the Metropolitan lunatic asylum is close to the town.

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  • The edge of the abysmal area comes close to the eastern coasts of Tasmania and New South Wales, approaching to within 60 m.

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  • In New South Wales, but close to the Victorian border, are found the loftiest peaks of Australia, Mount Kosciusco and Mount Townsend, rising to heights of 7328 and 7260 ft.

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  • This is Mount Wingen, situated in a spur of the Liverpool Range and close to the town of Scone.

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  • The plains and steppes already described lie either within or close to the tropics.

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  • The tree breaks into thin stems close to the ground, and these branch again and again, the leaves being developed umbrellafashion on the outer branches.

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  • It is situated beyond the river Darling, and close to the boundary between New South Wales and South Australia.

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  • Large deposits of alum occur close to the village of Bulladelah, 30 m.

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  • In 1903 the foundations of this temple were discovered close to the Arch of Trajan, and many fragments of fine sculptures in both the Egyptian and the Greco-Roman style belonging to it were found.

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  • Faringdon House, close to the church, was built by Henry James Pye (1745-1813), poet laureate from 1790 to 1813, who also caused to be planted the conspicuous group of fir-trees on the hill east of the town called Faringdon Clump, or locally (like other similar groups) the Folly.

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  • On both sides of the central ridge deep troughs extend southwards from the Telegraph plateau to the Southern Ocean, the deep water coming close to the land all the way down on both sides.

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  • There is no doubt that under average conditions of atmospheric density, the .005 should be replaced by 003, for many independent authorities using different methods have found values very close to this last figure.

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  • Where the face of the warehouse is sufficiently close to the water to permit of the crane rope plumbing the hatches without requiring a jib of excessive radius, it is a very convenient plan to place the whole crane on the warehouse roof.

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  • Cephalotus follicularis, a native of south-west Australia, a small herbaceous plant, bears ordinary leaves close to the ground as well as pitchers.

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  • Towards the north-east, the point where the Julian Alps approach close to the seashore (just at the sources of the little stream known in ancient times as the Timavus) would seem to constitute the best natural limit.

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  • The tract adjoining this long line of lagoons is, like the basin of the Po, a broad expanse of perfectly level alluvial plain, extending from the Adige eastwards to the Carnic Alps, where they approach close to the Adriatic between Aquileia and Trieste, and northwards to the foot of the great chain, which here sweeps round in a semicircle from the neighborhood of Vicenza to that of Aquileia.

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  • It is occupied by the branches and offshoots of the mountain ranges which separate it from the great plain to the north, and send down their lateral ridges close to the water's edge, leaving only in places a few square miles of level plains at the mouths of the rivers and openings of the valleys.

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  • The range is, however, continued through the province now called Calabria, to the southern extremity or toe of Italy, but presents in this part a very much altered character, the broken limestone range which is the true continuation of the chain as far as the neighbourhood of Nicastro and Catanzaro, and keeps close to the west coast, being flanked on the east by a great mass of granitic mountains, rising to about 6000 ft., and covered with vast forests, from which it derives the name of La Sila.

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  • Of these Ischia and Procida, close to the northern headland of the Bay of Naples, are of volcanic origin, as is the case also with the more distant group of the Ponza Islands.

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  • Communications with the south-east were mainly provided by the Via Appia (the queen of Roman roads, as Statius called it) and the Via Latina, which met close to Casiinum, at the crossing of the Volturnus, 3 m.

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  • Not only does the rainfall at one place vary from year to year, but there is an extraordinary difference in the returns for places quite close to one another.

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  • Both present the appearance of diminutive clusters of grapes, at the anterior end of the kidneys, close to the suprarenal bodies, separated from each other by the descending aorta and by the vena cava where this is formed by the right and left vena iliaca communis.

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  • The buildings lie close to the Thames, and the school is famous for rowing, sending an eight to the regatta at Henley each year.

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  • A smaller corm is then formed from the old one, close to its root; and this in September and October produces the crocus-like flowers.

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  • Without the pilgrims who come to visit it, Meshed would be a poor place, but lying on the eastern confines of Persia, close to Afghanistan, Russian Central Asia and Transcaspia, at the point where a number of trade routes converge, it is very important politically, and the British and Russian governments have maintained consulates-general there since 1889.

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  • There are large metallurgical works with electric motive power close to the town.

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  • It prefers clear streams flowing over a gravelly bottom, and deep, still water, keeping close to the bottom in winter but disporting itself near the surface in the sunshine of summer.

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  • A crowded native quarter built round a picturesque lake lies close to the river with the European quarter to the south of it.

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  • As most of the rivers have rapids or falls actually at the sea coast or close to it, they are, with the exception of the Cavalla, useless for penetrating far inland, and the whole of this part of Africa from Cape Palmas north-west to the Senegal suggests a sunken land.

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  • After eating the contents of the egg, the larva moults and becomes a fleshy grub with short legs and with paired spiracles close to the dorsal region, so that, as it floats in and devours the honey, it obtains a supply of air.

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  • An endeavour is made so to plan the works of a railway that the quantity of earth excavated in cuttings shall be equal to the quantity required for the embankments; but this is not always practicable, and it is sometimes advantageous to obtain the earth from some source close to the embankment rather than incur the expense of hauling it from a distant cutting.

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  • The object was to bring the level of the station platforms as close to the .

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  • He was born at his mother's castle of Xavier or Xavero, at the foot of the Pyrenees and close to the little town of Sanguesa, on the 7th of April 1506, according to a family register, though his earlier biographers fix his birth in 1497.

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  • It is met at several points by lines which serve the rich mining districts to the south; at Cobre by the Nevada Northern from Ely in White Pine county in the Robinson copper mining district; at Palisade by the Eureka & Palisade, a narrow-gauge railway, connecting with the lead and silver mines of the Eureka District; at Battle Mountain by the Nevada Central, also of narrow gauge, from Austin; at Hazen by the Nevada & California (controlled by the Southern Pacific) which runs to the California line, connecting in that state with other parts of the Southern Pacific system, and at Mina, Nevada, with the Tonopah & Goldfield, which runs to Tonopah and thence to Goldfield, thus giving these mining regions access to the Southern Pacific's transcontinental service; and at Reno, close to the western boundary, by the Virginia & Truckee, connecting with Carson City, Minden, in the Carson Valley, and Virginia City, in the Comstock District, and by the Nevada-California-Oregon, projected to run through north-eastern California into Oregon, in 1910, in operation to Alturas, California.

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  • It lies pleasantly in the narrow well-wooded valley of the Bulbourne, and is close to the Grand Junction canal.

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  • There still remains close to the first-named street and fronting the Corso Garibaldi a high wall built of square Roman bricks, with pillars and arched recesses in the upper portion, which goes by the name of Palazzo di Teodorico.

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  • It lies in the valley of the Tame, close to the junction of the boundaries of Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire, and is surrounded by sharply-rising high ground, especially eastward.

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  • The seeds are harvested from various grasses, especially from Aristida oligantha, a species known as " ant rice," which often grows in quantity close to the site selected for the nest, but the statement that the ants deliberately sow this grass is an error, due, according to Wheeler, to the sprouting of germinating seeds.

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  • It is mostly shallow and only close to Memel attains a depth of 23 ft.

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  • The summer pruning of established wall or espalier-rail trees consists chiefly in the timely displacing, shortening back, or rubbing off of the superfluous shoots, so that the winter pruning, in horizontal training, is little more than adjusting the leading shoots and thinning out the spurs, which should be kept close to the wall and allowed to retain but two or at most three buds.

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  • The short leaves are flat, those above pressed close to the stem, and the others forming two rows; they are of a rather light green tint above, whitish beneath.

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  • The chitinous layer is usually strengthened by thread like thickenings which, in the region close to the outer opening of the tube, form a network enclosing polygonal areas, but which, through most of the tracheal system, are arranged spirally, the strengthening thread not forming a continuous spiral, but being interrupted after a few turns around the tube.

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  • The air-tubes, like the food-canal, are formed by invaginations of the ectoderm, which arise close to the developing appendages, the rudimentary spiracles appearing soon after the budding limbs.

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  • Michael stands close to it.

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  • It originally stood close to the Buriganga river; but the channel has shifted its course, and there is now an intervening space covered with trees between it and the river.

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  • The little Lake Frolikha, situated close to the northern extremity of Lake Baikal and communicating with it by means of a river of the same name, contains a peculiar species of trout, Salmo erythreas, which is not known elsewhere.

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  • In the Macarthy roller gin, the lint, drawn by a roller covered with leather (preferably walrus hide), is drawn between a metal plate called the " doctor " (fixed tangentially to the roller and very close to it) and a blade called the " beater " or knife, which rapidly moves up and down immediately behind, and parallel to, the fixed plate.

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  • Another interesting building is the Gothic chapel of Notre-Dame, with three naves, rebuilt by Louis XI., standing close to a medieval bridge over the Sienne.

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  • What we do find is a slight transverse furrow on each side of the head, close to the tip, but the most careful examination of sections made through the tissues of the head and brain shows the absence of any further apparatus comparable to that described above.

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  • The anterior opening, the mouth, is situated ventrally, close to the tip of the head and in front of the brain in the Metanemertini, somewhat more backward and behind the brain in the other Nemertines.

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  • At the foot of the dunes are the old towns and villages of Sassenheim, close to which are slight remains of the ancient castle of Teilingen (12th century), in which the countess Jacoba of Bavaria died in 1433.

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  • Near the village a "wishing well" of ancient fame is seen, and close to it the ruins of a baptistery of extreme antiquity.

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  • Its integument is marked by a large number of transverse grooves simulating the segmentation of Annelids, and near the anterior extremity close to the mouth are two pairs of recurved chitinous hooks.

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  • At some points the rugged cliffs, furrowed by deep ravines, approach close to the sea; elsewhere the hills leave a considerable maritime plain between their base and the shore line.

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  • It was a fitting close to such a life as his.

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  • In the district that bore this designation, lying close to the Appian Way, the basilica of San Sebastiano was erected, and the extensive burial-vaults beneath that church - in which, according to tradition, the bodies of the apostles St Peter and St Paul rested for a year and seven months previous to their removal to the basilicas which bear their names - were, in very early times, called from it coemeterium ad catacumbas, or catacumbas alone.

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  • Outer columns of upper molars similar, the hinder ones not flattened; ridges of lower molars oblique or directly transverse, a third ridge to the last molar in the earlier forms. The Lophiodontidae, which date from the Eocene, come very close to Hyracotherium in the horse-line; and it is solely on the authority of American palaeontologists that the division of these early forms into equoids and tapiroids is attempted.

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  • Model farms were established at Livno and at Gacko, on the Montenegrin border; a school of viticulture near Mostar; a model poultry-farm at Prijedor, close to the Croatian boundary;.

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  • Some interesting manoeuvres now took place, Wellington moving parallel and close to Marmont, but more to the north, making for the fords of Aldea Lengua and Santa Marta on the Tormes nearer to Salamanca, and being under the belief that the Spaniards held the castle and ford at Alba on that river.

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  • For the accommodation of such passengers large and convenient emigrant shelters have been recently erected close to the wharf of embarkation.

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  • The officer commanding the British frigate "Dartmouth" (42), Captain Fellowes, seeing a Turkish fireship close to windward of him, sent a boat with a demand that she should be removed.

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  • The strength of the current may also be regulated by introducing lengths of German silver or iron wire, carbon rod, or other inferior conductors in the path of the current, and a series of such resistances should always be provided close to the tanks.

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  • It is this Wale ' circumstance that facilitated the rapid invasion of Siberia Wal er l by the Russian Cossacks and hunters; they followed the omm courses of the twin rivers in their advance towards the east, and discovered short portages which permitted them to transfer their boats from the system of the Ob to that of the Yenisei, and from the latter to that of the Lena, a tributary of which - the Aldan - brought them close to the Sea of Okhotsk.

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  • Athena also gave the Athenians the olive-tree, which was supposed to have sprung from the bare soil of the Acropolis, when smitten by her spear, close to the horse (or spring of water) produced by the trident of Poseidon, to which he appealed in support of his claim to the lordship of Athens.

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  • The divaricators proper are stated by Hancock to arise from the ventral valve, one on each side, a little in advance of and close to the adductors, and after rapidly diminishing in size become attached to the cardinal process, a space or prominence between the sockets in the dorsal valve.

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  • Thus a well-marked depression in the Cotteswolds brings the head of the (Gloucestershire) Coln, one of the head-streams of the Thames, very close to that of the Isborne, a tributary of the upper Avon; the parting between the headstreams of the Thames and the Bristol Avon sinks at one point, near Malmesbury, below 300 ft.; and head-streams of the Great Ouse rise little more than two miles from, and only some 300 ft.

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  • The entosternite was probably in origin part of the fibrous connective tissue lying close to the integument of the sternal surface - giving attachment to muscles corresponding more or less to those at present attached to it.

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  • By the crushing action of their pincers, and an alternate backward and forward movement, they bring the soft blood-holding tissues of the victim close to the minute pin-hole aperture which is the scorpion's mouth.

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  • The Epectinate Arachnids do not stand so close to the aquatic ancestors of the Embolobranchia as do the Pectiniferous scorpions.

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  • Tracheae, except in the aquatic species in which they are atrophied, opening by a pair of stigmata situated close to or above the base of the appendages of the 1st pair (mandibles).

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  • Fredrikshald is close to the Swedish frontier, and had previously (1660) withstood invasion, after which its name was changed from Halden to the present form in 1665 in honour of Frederick III.

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  • In the islet of Lele, close to Kusaie, at the eastern extremity of Micronesia, the ruins present the appearance of a citadel with cyclopean ramparts built of large basaltic blocks.

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  • It is situated on the Mound close to the National Gallery, of which the prince consort laid the foundation stone in 1850.

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  • A tree close to the house still bears the name of Charles's oak, but tradition goes no further than to assert that it grew from an acorn of the original tree.

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  • The upper fall is close to the village of Howick.

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  • The south coast line, which runs close to the sea, goes to Port Shepstone (79 m.).

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  • Kosogol (Khubsu-gul), which lies at an altitude of 5320 ft., close to the Russian frontier, at the foot of the snow-clad Munku-sardyk..

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  • In this he attracted the favourable attention of Marie de' Medici, the queen-mother, and was chosen at its close to present the address of the clergy embodying its petitions and resolutions.

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  • Some of its sources are near Zebak, close to the great bend of the Oxus northwards, so that it cuts off all the mountainous area included within that bend from the rest of Badakshan.

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  • It is sufficient to look at wire gauze backed by the sky or by a flame, through a piece of blackened cardboard, pierced by a needle and held close to the eye.

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  • Others occur in the flat northern half of the Crimea, and even close to Kerch, where the famous Kul Oba seems to have held a Scythic chieftain who had adopted a veneer of Greek tastes, but remained a barbarian at heart.

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  • On the following day the Boer attack on an armoured train at Kraaipan, a railway station in Cape Colony south of Mafeking and close to the western frontier of the Transvaal, witnessed the first hostile shot of a bloody war, destined to plunge South Africa into strife for two years and a half.

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  • Nieremberg has not the enraptured vision of St Theresa, nor the philosophic significance of Luis de Leon, and the unvarying sweetness of his style is cloying; but he has exaltation, unction, insight, and his book forms no unworthy close to a great literary tradition.

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  • In addition to these prominent features, there are sometimes to be seen a number of coloured bands, situated at or near the summits of the bows, close to the inner edge of the primary and the outer edge of the secondary bow; these are known as the spurious, supernumerary or complementary rainbows.

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  • The modern town, close to the ancient, is unimportant, though the canons of the cathedral have the privilege of wearing the mitre and cap pa magna at great festivals.

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  • It is close to the site of the ancient Aquinum, a municipium in the time of Cicero, and made a colony by the Triumviri, the birthplace of Juvenal and of the emperor Pescennius Niger.

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  • At Davington, close to Faversham, there are remains, incorporated in a residence, of the cloisters and other parts of a Benedictine priory founded in 1153.

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  • Another account speaks of him as having left behind him gardens, to the extent of about twelve acres, close to the Appian Way.

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  • The 2nd and 4th Austrian corps found themselves all at once threatened in flank and rear by heavy masses of Prussian infantry, the leading brigades of the crown prince's army, and they began to withdraw towards the centre of their position in ordered brigade masses, apparently so intent on keeping their men in hand that they seem never to have noticed the approach of the Prussian reserve artillery of the Guard which (under Prince Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen) was straining forward over heavy soil and through standing corn towards their point of direction, a clump of trees close to the tower of the church of Chlum.

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  • It is a widelydistributed species, being found throughout the northern and temperate seas of Europe, Asia and America, extending as far south as Gibraltar, but not entering the Mediterranean, and inhabits water from 25 to 50 fathoms deep, where it always feeds close to the bottom.

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  • After the division and cleavage of the chromosomes of the original nucleus have taken place they pass from the equator to the poles of the spindle, rearranging themselves close to the separated centrosomes to form daughter nuclei.

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  • The district was one of the chief centres of the Methodist revival of the 18th century, the first synod of the Calvinistic Methodists being held in 1743 at Watford farm close to the town, from which place George Whitefield was married at Eglwysilan church two years previously.

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  • The so-called Campo Santo, close to the baptistery, contains a mosaic pavement with emblematic figures belonging probably to the 8th and 9th centuries, and running under the cathedral.

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  • Both east and west the walls of the rift-valley are close to the lake,the water in many places washing the base of the cliffs.

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  • The end of 1725 brought a disastrous close to this period of his life.

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  • The Wallbrook rose in a marsh in the modern district of Finsbury, and joined the Thames close to the Cannon Street railway bridge.

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  • It rose on the heights of Hampstead, traversed Paddington, may be traced in the course of the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park, ran parallel to and east of Sloane Street, and joined the Thames close to Chelsea Bridge.

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  • The survival of names of obliterated physical features or characteristics is illustrated in Section I.; but additional instances are found in the Strand, which originally ran close to the sloping bank of the Thames, and in Smithfield, now the central meat market, but for long the " smooth field " where a cattle and hay market was held, and the scene of tournaments and games, and also of executions.

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  • The South-Eastern & Chatham railway has four terminal stations, all on or close to the north bank of the river - Victoria, Charing Cross,' Holborn Viaduct and Cannon Street (City).

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  • This company combines with the Metropolitan District to form the Inner Circle line, which has stations close to all the great railway termini north of the Thames.

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  • The surface tramway system of London cannot be complete, as, within an area roughly represented by the boroughs of Chelsea, Kensington and Fulham, the city of Westminster and a considerable district north thereof, and the city of London, the ' Charing Cross station was the scene of a remarkable catastrophe on the 5th of December 1905, when a large part of the roof collapsed, and the falling debris did very serious damage to the Avenue theatre, which stands close to the station at a lower level.

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  • The Royal Geographical Society, occupying a building close to Burlington House in Savile Row, maintains a map-room open to the public, holds lectures by prominent explorers and geographers, and takes a leading part in the promotion of geographical discovery.

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  • The chief halls devoted mainly to concerts are the Royal Albert Hall, close to the South Kensington museums, and Queen's Hall in Langham Place, Regent Street.

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  • Between Kosi and St Lucia lakes lies Lake Sibayi, close to the coast but not communicating with the sea.

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  • The working-place in such case is considerably narrower than in rooms or stopes, and there is also greater difficulty in supporting the roof because the projecting beds tend to break close to the point of support where the strain is greatest.

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  • A man-engine consists of two heavy wooden rods (like the rods of a Cornish pumping plant), placed parallel and close to each other in a special shaft compartment, and suspended at the surface from a pair of massive walking beams (or " bobs ").

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  • In the general scheme of attack the landing at this last point was of primary importance; the largest force had been detailed for it, and the troops were for the most part conveyed to the beach in a steamer (the " River Clyde ") which was run ashore; but only some scattered detachments cowering close to the water's edge had established themselves on land by nightfall, and the Allies' position here seemed to be highly critical.

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  • But the urgent need of pressing forward at once was not realized by the attacking side, and the opposition offered by the parties of Osmanlis close to the bay was taken too seriously after daylight.

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  • Mercury, within XVIII.7 a a certain range of temperatures situated close to its boiling point, combines slowly with oxygen into the red oxide, which, however, breaks up again at higher temperatures.

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  • In revenge an Abyssinian army under King John attacked the dervishes close to Gallabat in March 1889.

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  • In Semitic times Urra was pronounced Uri and confounded with uru, " ciiy "; as a geographical term, however, it was replaced by Akkadu (Akkad), the Semitic form of Agadewritten Akkattim in the Elamite inscriptions - the name of the elder Sargon's capital, which must have stood close to Sippara, if indeed it was not a quarter of Sippara itself.

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  • In 1899 a theatre was opened close to the town for the sole purpose of performing Schiller's play of Wilhelm Tell.

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  • The shoots are cut back to buds close to the stem, which should be encouraged to form alternately at equal distances right and left, by removing those buds from the original shoot which are not conveniently placed.

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  • Upper Walmer is a short distance inland, and below it Walmer Castle lies close to the sea.

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  • It follows a generally easterly course, roughly parallel with that of the Dee, and a few miles to the south of it, falling into the North Sea close to Old Aberdeen, after a run of 82 m.

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  • A deep porous bed in the upper layers is essential, and this should consist of fine particles which lie close to each other without any tendency to stick together and " puddle " after heavy showers.

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  • In high quality tobaccos the leaves are " primed " or picked singly as they ripen, but in the great bulk of American tobaccos the whole plant is cut close to the ground when the middle leaves are about ripe.

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  • Quite close to the sea, all along the coast from Hammamet to Sfax, there are great fertility and much cultivation; but a little distance inland the country has a rather wild and desolate aspect, though it is nowhere a desert until the latitude of Sfax has been passed.

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  • With this country of Jerid may be included the island of Jerba, which lies close to the coast of Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabes.

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  • Both places lay close to the Danube and could not therefore be turned; Aspern, indeed, is actually on the bank of one of the river channels.

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  • They occur in particular in relation with the orifice of the zooecium, and with that of the compensation-sac. This delicate structure is frequently guarded by an avicularium at its entrance, while avicularia are also commonly found on either side of the operculum or in other positions close to that structure.

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  • The platypus is aquatic in its habits, passing most of its time in the water or close to the margin of lakes and streams, swimming and diving with the greatest ease, and forming for the purpose of sleeping and breeding deep burrows in the banks, which generally have two orifices, one just above the water level, concealed among long grass and leaves, and the other below the surface.

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  • In 1840 the Tennysons moved to Tunbridge Wells, and a year later to Boxley, near Maidstone, to be close to Edmund Lushington, who had now married Cecilia Tennyson.

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  • There arc also remains of a well-preserved Roman theatre, close to the left bank of the river.

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  • Modern German versions are by Simrock (very close to the original) and Hertz (freer, but with excellent notes and appendices); Eng.

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  • Apart from its commercial importance, its position, close to the fashionable watering-places of Homburg, Nauheim and Wiesbaden, has rendered it " cosmopolitan " in the best sense of the term.

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  • It is now annexed to the principal post office (built 1892-1894), which lies close to it on the Zeil.

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  • Aubin is the centre of important coal-mines worked in the middle ages, and also has iron-mines, the product of which supplies iron works close to the town.

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  • Toledo is close to Madrid, and the correspondence was easily maintained.

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  • On the north side of the Sacred Way, close to the main entrance, stood the offering dedicated by the Lacedaemonians after the battle of Aegospotami.

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  • Characteristic of the Rand is the fine white dust arising from the crushing of the ore, and, close to the batteries, the incessant din caused by the stamps employed in that operation.

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  • The Scottish shore, however, is not continuously flat, and such elevations as Criffell (1866 ft.), Bengairn (1250) and Cairnharrow (1497), above Wigtown Bay, rise close to it.

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  • A base on which stood a statue of Herodes' wife, Regilla, was found close to the facade, inscribed with fulsome praise, stating that the statue was "set up by order of the Sisyphaean Senate at the outpouring of the streams."

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  • The Romanesque church of S.Abondio outside the town was founded in 1013 and consecrated in 1095; it has two fine campanili, placed at the ends of the aisles close to the apse.

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  • Other educational establishments are Queen's University, replacing the old Queen's College (1849) under the Irish Universities Act 1908; the Presbyterian and the Methodist Colleges, occupying neighbouring sites close to the extensive botanical gardens, the Royal Academical Institution, and the Municipal Technical Institute.

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  • The island can be reached by steamer from Trapani, and lies close to the main route from east to west through the Mediterranean.

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  • He was buried by his comrades under an oak close to the village of WObbelin, where there is a monument to him.

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  • In spite of their heavy losses and their awkward administration, the Dutch were at sea before the end of May, and were close to the mouth of the Thames.

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  • We now know, however, that the Antarctic circle runs so close to the coast of Antarctica that the Antarctic Ocean may be left out of account.

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  • To the east of the Philippines a sounding of 3490 fathoms is found close to the Strait of St Bernardino and north-east of Talaut.

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  • Terrigenous Deposits (formed in deep or shallow water close to land) by a calcareous cement.

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  • For this reason the up-welling coastal water is coldest close to the shore, and hence it only appears on the Somali coast during the south-west monsoon.

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  • There is a large naval hospital close to the harbour.

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  • The pumps, placed close to the point where the water accumulates, may be worked by an engine on the surface by means of heavy reciprocating rods which pass down the shaft, or by underground motors driven by steam, compressed air or electricity.

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  • In this the filling material, preferably sand, is sent down from the surface through a vertical steel pipe mixed with sufficient water to allow it to flow freely through distributing pipes in the levels commanding the excavations to be filled; these are closed at the bottom by screens of boards sufficiently close to retain the packing material while allowing the water to pass by the lower level to the pumping-engine which returns it to the surface.

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  • During this period Fichte's academic career had been troubled by various storms, the last so violent as to put a close to his professorate at Jena.

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  • A Roman villa was formerly seen close to the shore, but it is not now visible.

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  • But if the wandering molecule was originally close to the surface of the body, and if it also happens to start off in the right direction, it may escape from the body altogether and describe a free path in space until it is checked by meeting a second wandering molecule or other obstacle.

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  • Amesbury Abbey, a beautiful house built by Inigo Jones for the dukes of Queensberry, stands close to the village, in a park watered by the river Avon, here famous for its trout.

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  • On either side of this centre was the cavalry in two long lines, while in front of the centre and close to the right at Liitzen were the two batteries of heavy artillery.

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  • It stands on a bare upland, close to the sea; and below it is Tintagel Haven, or Porth, a small cove surrounded by cliffs of almost black slate.

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  • There are twenty-one islands in all, of which the majority lie close to or between the four largest - Siberut, Sikaban or Sipora, North Pageh and South Pageh.

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  • On the other hand, the duke's whole section lay close to an open frontier across which ran no fewer than four great roads, and the duke considered that his position "required, for its protection, a system of occupation quite different from that adopted by the Prussian army."

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  • The Army of the North was to concentrate in three fractions - around Solre, Beaumont and Philippeville - as close to Charleroi as was practicable; and he arranged to screen the initial movements of the troops as much as possible, so as to prevent the allies from discovering in time that their centre was aimed at.

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  • Amand, whilst Gerard attempted to storm Ligny; on the right Grouchy held Thielemann in play, and in the centre near Fleurus were the Guard and Milhaud in reserve, close to the emperor's headquarters on the mill.

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  • If, on the other hand, we were to take them very close to KA and LB respectively, the area of K 0 M B Z the trapezette would be the greater.

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  • At J the displacement is forward, but since the curve at Q is parallel to the axis the displacement is approximately the same for all the points close to J, and the air is neither extended nor compressed, but merely displaced bodily a distance represented by JQ.

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  • If, at the same time, a tuning-fork of known number of vibrations per second be made to trace its own line close to the other, a comparison of the two lines gives the number corresponding to the sound under consideration.

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  • It may easily be heard when a double whistle with notes of different pitch is blown strongly, or when two gongs are loudly sounded close to the hearer.

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  • There is not much difficulty in detecting the difference tone by a resonator if it is held, say, close to the reeds of a harmonium, and Helmholtz succeeded in detecting the summation tone by the aid of a resonator.

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  • It lies on the western slope of the Chiltern Hills, close to the entrance to a narrow valley which pierces them, and forms one of the highways through them to London, carrying the railway, the Grand Junction Canal, and a main road.

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  • A strong machicolated and turreted wall surrounds the rock, running along its base on the south, ascending halfway up the cliff on the north, on which side it stands close to the abbey wall, and again descending on the west.

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  • Formerly it was the general belief that the herring inhabits the open ocean close to the Arctic Circle, and that it migrates at certain seasons towards the northern coasts of Europe and America.

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  • The highest peak hereabouts is Mogadok, 5000 ft., close to the border.

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  • Among its noble families the chief was that of the Caecinae, who took their, name from the river which runs close to Volaterrae and still retains the name Cecina.

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  • Except that the Great Northern railway line from Belfast to the south and west runs for a short distance close to the southern boundary of the county, with a branch from Lisburn to the town of Antrim, the principal lines of communication are those of the Northern Counties system, under the control of the Midland railway of England.

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  • Iglau is situated on the Iglawa, close to the Bohemian frontier, and is one of the oldest towns in Moravia, being the centre of a German-speaking enclave.

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  • We can obtain a pertinent illustration from the motion of a vortex ring in a fluid; if the circular core of the ring is thin compared with its diameter, and the vorticity is not very great, it is the vortical state of motion that travels across the fluid without transporting the latter bodily with it except to a slight extent very close to the core.

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  • Temple (or Joss-house) Hill, which commands the town and harbour close to the beach, is 122 ft.

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  • He led a force from Kabul, met Ayub's army close to Kandahar, and the complete victory which he there won forced Ayub Khan to fly into Persia.

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  • A water-parting extending from north-east to south-west and close to the Atlantic border separates the East Shore into two drainage systems, though that next to the Atlantic is insignificant.

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  • On the 10th of August 1810 the French under Marshal Soult defeated a large Spanish force close to the town.

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  • The great warming and abundant rainfall of the island regions of the western Pacific, and the low temperature of the surface water in the east, cause a displacement of the southern tropical maximum of pressure to the east; hence we have a permanent " South Pacific anticyclone " close to the coast of South America.

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  • Part of this rejoins the North Equatorial Current, and part probably forms the variable Mexican Current, which follows the coasts of Mexico and California close to the land.

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  • The Rio Grande de Tarcoles rises close to the Ochomogo Pass and the sources of the Reventazon, at the base of Irazu; and the headwaters of these two streams indicate precisely the depression in the central plateau which severs the northern from the southern mountains.

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  • The principal places of interest on the banks of the Earn are Dunira, the favourite seat of Henry Dundas, ist Viscount Melville, who took the title of his barony from the estate and to whose memory .an obelisk was raised on the adjoining hill of Dunmore; the village of Comrie; the town of Crieff; the ruined castle of Innerpeffray, founded in 1610 by the ist Lord Maderty, close to which is the library founded in 1691 by the 3rd Lord Maderty, containing some rare black-letter books and the Bible that belonged to the marquess of Montrose; Gascon Hall, now in ruins, but with traditions reaching back to the days of Wallace; Dupplin Castle, a fine Tudor mansion, seat of the earl of Kinnoull, who derives from it the title of his viscounty; Aberdalgie, Forgandenny and Bridge of Earn, a health resort situated amidst picturesque surroundings.

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  • The pre-Greek examples of this cubit in Egypt, mentioned by Böckh (2), give 18.23 as a mean, which is 25 digits of 0.7292 digits, close to 0.729, but has no relation to the 20.63 cubit.

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  • It is situated on the Oppa river, close to the Prussian frontier, and is a well-built town with extensive suburbs.

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  • Southward the plateau is traversed by many low ranges and breaks down in terraces, forming one of the most fertile and attractive parts of the republic. Close to the capital are the Sierra de Ajusco, whose highest point is 13,078 ft.

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  • The audiencia councils also advised the viceroy in matters of administration; and, as with other officials, his career was subject at its close to a formal examination by a commission - a process known as " taking his residencia."

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  • Bury, of which the name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon burhg, birig or byrig (town, castle or fortified place), was the site of a Saxon station, and an old English castle stood in Castle Croft close to the town.

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  • Locmariaquer has a small port, and oyster culture is carried on close to it.

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  • The resemblance, however, is not sufficiently close to warrant the deduction that either the Gospel of the Egyptians or the Gospel from which the citation in 2 Clement is taken (if these two are distinct) is the source from which our fragment is derived.

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  • A mechanics' institute was founded in 1832, and in 1871 the handsome mechanics' hail, close to the town hall, was opened.

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  • But in certain genera, like Conocoryphe, Calymmene and Triarthrus, it cuts the margin of the head-shield so close to the posterior angle that the distinction between the two groups practically breaks down.

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  • The old town, close to the river, forms a nucleus round which a newer and more extensive quarter, bordered by boulevards, has grown 'up; the suburbs of St Christophe and Deols lie on the right bank of the Indre.

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  • The coat is composed of two kinds of hair, the one short and coarse and of the character of hair, which lies close to the skin, the other long and curly and of the nature of wool, forming the outer covering.

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  • It originally occupied only the small island of Zephyria close to the shore, now occupied by the great castle of St Peter, built by the Knights of Rhodes in 1404; but in course of time this island was united to the mainland and the city extended so as to incorporate Salmacis, an older town of the Leleges and Carians.

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  • The arms from the shoulder to the elbow should hang naturally, close to the sides, and the arms from elbow to wrist should be about parallel to the ground, the wrist being kept loose, so as to yield gently with every motion of the horse.

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  • The rider's body must be always clOse to the saddle in leaping, for if he were jerked up, the weight of say only a 10stone man coming down on the horse a couple of seconds after he has negotiated a large fence is sufficient to throw the animal down.

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  • Cramped places will have to be jumped from a walk or even at a stand; for instance, a tree may be in a line with and close to the only practicable place in a fence; it then becomes necessary to go round the tree before a run at the place can be managed.

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  • The finest examples of this kind are the moraines about Jackson Lake on the basin floor east of the Teton Range (Grand Teton, 13,747 ft.), a superb north-south range which lies close to the meridional boundary line between Wyoming and Idaho.

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  • The rainfall from the stromy westerly winds is largely deposited on the western slopes of the mountains near the Pacific coast, and arid or desert interior plains are thus found close to the great ocean.

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  • He was, therefore, appropriately lodged in the immediate vicinity of the refectory and kitchen, and close to the guest-hall.

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  • The abbot's house formed a small courtyard at the west entrance, close to the inner gateway.

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  • Advancing into the inner court, the buildings devoted to hospitality are found close to the entrance; while those connected with the supply of the material wants of the brethren, - the kitchen, cellars, &c., - form a court of themselves outside the cloister and quite detached from the church.

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  • He also threw himself at his guest's feet, and conducted him to the chapel (D) purposely built close to the gate.

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  • The Bois de la Cambre (456 acres) on the outskirts of Brussels was formed out of the forest, and beyond it stretches the Foret de Soignies, still so called, to Tervueren, Groenendael, and Argenteuil close to Mont Saint Jean and Waterloo.

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  • But freights had come down by 1900 to half the rates predicated by Caird; indeed, during a portion of the interval they ruled very close to zero, as far as steamer freights from America were concerned.

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  • The genital duct opens by a pore into the urino-genital groove of the oyster (the same arrangement being repeated on each side of the body) close to but distinct from the aperture of the nephridial canal.

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  • The glands of Bartholin are two oval bodies about half an inch long, lying on each side of the vagina close to its opening; they represent Cowper's glands in the male, and their ducts open by minute orifices between the hymen and the labia minora.

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  • He was allowed to come close to the Turkish flagship, and succeeded in attaching his fireships to her, setting them on fire, and escaping with his party.

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  • Farther E., close to the village of Walkerburn, are Purvis Hill terraces, a remarkable series of earthen banks, from So ft.

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  • On the first alarm of danger it sits erect to reconnoitre, when it either seeks concealment by clapping close to the ground, or takes to flight.

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  • The cathedral, a building of no special interest, stands in the great piazza close to the ducal palace.

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  • The Roman Catholics are mostly gathered around the episcopal sees of Hildesheim and Osnabruck and close to Munster (in Westphalia) on the western border, and the Jews in the towns.

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  • On the Neumarkt is the Frauenkirche, with a stone cupola rising to the height of 311 ft.; close to the Altmarkt, the Kreuzkirche, rebuilt after destruction by fire in 1897, also with a lofty tower surmounted by a cupola; and near the Postplatz the Sophienkirche, with twin spires.

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  • Close to and on either side of the absorptive band µ 2 has large positive and negative values, and if the above expression remains correct the change of frequency would, close to the centre of absorption, be 2 k-2"+3, which for n =3 and k= Io is 1/2000, or 500 times greater than the observed shifts, but this represents now the maximum displacement and not the displacement of the most intense portion of the radiation.

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  • It is situated among the .foothills of the Wicklow Mountains, close to the river Liffey.

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  • These ranges, which mostly lie close to the seaboard, form by their projecting spurs a narrow defile on the Phocian frontier, near the famous battlefield of Chaeroneia, and shut in Copais closely on the south between Coronea and Haliartus.

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  • The old market cross still exists, and close to it stands the stone that gives the town its name (Gaelic, clack, stone; Manann, the name of the district).

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  • The remarkable area of gold-mining industry which lies to the north-east of Gartok is reached by another route from Leh, which, crossing the Chang la close to Leh, passes by Rudok at the eastern extremity of Lake Pangong in a south-easterly direction, running north of the great mountain masses which crowd round the Indus sources.

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  • Colonel James Gardiner was mortally wounded after an heroic stand, and an obelisk in the grounds of his house at Bankton, close to the battlefield, commemorates his valour, while the ballad of Adam Skirving (1719-1803), "Hey, Johnnie Cope!"

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  • In 408 the Carthaginian invading army under Hannibal, after capturing Selinus, in'vested and took Himera and razed the city to the ground, founding a new town close to the hot springs (Thermae Himeraeae), 8 m.

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  • The Spey or Spy tower, the most important fortress on the city wall, guarded the south gate close to the river, but it was taken down early in the 19th century.

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  • The Exedra of Herodes Atticus stood at the north limit of the Altis, close to the north-east angle of the Heraeum, and immediately west of the westernmost treasure-house (that of Sicyon).

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  • The Prytaneum was at the north-west corner of the Altis, in such a position that its south-east angle was close to the north-west angle of the Heraeum.

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  • The business and manufacturing section is close to the river and only a few feet above it; behind this, along a ridge, is the residential district; along the Sound are summer cottages and pleasure resorts.

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  • They were close to the harbour when a great disappointment overtook them.

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  • Dickinson, but the storming parties were too close to permit of the sheds being blown up, and an attempt to blow up the destroyers was beaten back.

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  • A rain of bullets fell close to them, and struck down two oarsmen in succession.

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  • She was close to the eastern pier when a heavy shell burst close to the conning tower, which must have killed the commander for he was never seen again.

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  • Lying close to the Harkort iron and sulphur mines, and within the populous and rich mineral district on the lower Rhine, it carries on iron-founding, wire-drawing and the manufacture of machinery of various kinds, besides an active trade in iron, steel and brass goods.

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  • In 1907 a new company, The Aluminium Corporation, was started in England to carry out the production of the metal by the Heroult process, and new factories were constructed near Conway in North Wales and at Wallsend-on-Tyne, quite close to where, twenty years before, the Alliance Aluminium Co.

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  • But the next two longest glaciers in the Eastern Alps (the Hintereis, 64 m., and the Gepatsch, 6 m.) are both in the Oetzthal Alps, and so close to the true main watershed.

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  • Of the Rodentia the most interesting and conspicuous is the marmot (Arctomys marmota), which lives in colonies close to the snow-line.

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  • The Stanwick nectarine, so apt to crack and not to ripen when worked in the ordinary way, is said to be cured of these propensities by being first budded close to the ground, on a very strong-growing Magnum Bonum plum, worked on a Brussels stock, and by then budding the nectarine on the Magnum Bonum about a foot from the ground.

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  • A hot-water pipe f should run along both sides of the pathway, close to the front ledge of the lowest beds.

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  • Here the graft is fixed to the side of the stock, which is planted or potted close to the plant to be worked.

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  • Standard trees, however, are budded on a sturdy young shoot close to the top. In either case the stocks should have been carefully planted at least the previous November when the work is to be done in the open air the following July or August.

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  • The ground being prepared and, if necessary, enriched, and the surface made fine and smooth, a hole is made with the dibble deep enough and large enough to receive the roots of the seedling plants without doubling them up, and the hole is filled in by working the soil close to the plant with the point of the dibble.

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  • To form a standard tree, either the stock is allowed to grow up with a straight stem, by cutting away all side branches up to the height required, say about 6 ft., the scion or bud being worked at that point, and the head developed therefrom; or the stock is worked close to the ground, and the young shoot obtained therefrom is allowed to grow up in the same way, being pruned in its progress to keep it single and straight, and the top being cut off when the desired height is reached, so as to cause the growth of lateral shoots.

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  • The second year three young shoots are to be left on each of the six, one close to the base, one about the middle, and one at the point, the rest being rubbed off.

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  • Flowers bright yellow, January to March, close to the ground.

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  • Neat-growing, succulent plants, forming rosettes of fleshy leaves close to the ground, and rapidly increasing by runner-like offsets; they are well adapted for rockwork, and do best in sandy soil.

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  • These should be kept cut off close to the old plant, so that the full force of the root is expended in making the " crowns " or fruit buds for next season's crop. If plants are required for new beds, only the required number should be allowed to grow, and these may be layered in pots as recommended in July.

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  • In sections where it is an advantage to protect grape vines, raspberries, &c., from severe frost, these should be laid down as close to the ground as possible, and covered with leaves, straw or hay, or with a few inches of soil.

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  • He fired a pistol at the prince close to his head, and the ball passed under the right ear and out at the left jaw.

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  • The oxidation of the foreign elements must be very slow, lest the effervescence due to the escape of carbonic oxide from the carbon of the metal throw the charge out of the doors and ports of the furnace, which itself must be shallow in order to hold the flame down close to the charge.

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  • Nomentum was a few miles farther north, between the Apennines and the Tiber, and close to the Sabine frontier.

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  • Nearly in the centre of the plain of the Campagna stood Gabii; Bovillae was also in the plain, but close to the Appian Way, where it begins to ascend the Alban Hills.

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  • The lower town was situated on the north edge of the valley, close to the Via Appia, which descended into the valley from the modern Albano, and re-ascended partly upon very fine substructions of opus quadratum, some 200 yds.

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  • Under Burmese rule Lashio was also the centre of authority for the northern Shan States, but the Burmese post in the valley was close to the Nam Yao, in an old Chinese fortified camp. The Lashio valley was formerly very populous; but a rebellion, started by the sawbwa of Hsenwi, about ten years before the British occupation, ruined it, and it is only slowly approaching the prosperity it formerly enjoyed; pop. (1901) 2565.

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  • We do not, however, hear of any damage wrought by fire, save in the case of Sallust's palace, which was situated close to the gate by which the Goths had made their entrance; nor is there any reason to attribute any extensive destruction of the buildings of the city to Alaric and his followers.

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  • Ochakov stands close to the site of the old Miletan (Greek) colony of Olvia and the Greek colony of Alektor.

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  • The highest of these is the Baraque de Michel close to the Prussian frontier, with an altitude of 2190 ft.

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  • Other routes there are, open to trade, between Herat and northern India, either following the banks of the Hari Rud, or, more circuitously, through the valley of the Helmund to Kabul; or the line of hills between the Arghandab and the Tarnak may be crossed close to Kalat-i-Ghilzai; but of the two former it may be said that they are not ways open to the passage of Afghan armies owing to the hereditary hostility existing between the Aeimak and Hazara tribes and the Afghans generally, while the latter is not beyond striking distance from Kandahar.

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  • It occupies both banks of the Motala, the wide and rapid emissary of lake Vetter, close to its outlet in the Bravik, an inlet of the Baltic. Having been burned by the Russians in 1719 and visited by further fires in 1812, 1822 and 1826, the whole town has a modern appearance, with wide and regular streets.

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  • A conspicuous building has been erected close to the water, from the fragments of the Tell Hum synagogue.

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  • A handsome central railway station (high level), on the site of the old station, and close to the cathedral, was built in 1888-1894.

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  • He died on the 6th of June 1820, and was buried in Westminster Abbey close to the tombs of Pitt and Fox.

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  • Pompeii in ancient times was a prosperous seaport town situated close to the seashore, from which it is now nearly 2 m.

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  • The streets were also diversified by fountains, small water-towers and reservoirs (of which an especially interesting example was found in 1902 close to the Porta del Vesuvio) and street shrines.

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  • In its eastern portion, called Callidromus, it comes close to the sea, leaving only a narrow passage known as the famous pass of Thermopylae.

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  • The palace of the archbishops is still here, and forms, with the parish church, a picturesque group of buildings, lying close to the river opposite the majestic Houses of Parliament, and to some extent joining with them to make of this reach of the Thames one of the finest prospects in London.

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  • Aspidistra lurida is a favourite pot-plant, bearing large green or white-striped leaves on an underground stem, and small dark purplish, cup-shaped flowers close to the ground.

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  • This is the northernmost of a series of populous townships extending from the suburbs of London along the Lea valley as far as its junction with the Stort, which is close to Hoddesdon.

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  • It lies on the west shore of the picturesque estuary of the river Fowey, close to the water's edge, and sheltered by a screen of hills.

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  • The name Camaroes was 0 first given by the Portuguese discoverers of the 15th and 16th centuries to a large bay or estuary, lying south-east of a great mountain close to the sea, met with after passing the Niger delta.

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  • This mountain, whose south-western base is washed by the Atlantic, is the highest point on the western side of Africa, and it alone of the great mountains of the continent lies close to the coast.

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  • It consists of various trading stations and native towns close to one another on the south bank of the river and known, before the German occupation, as Cameroon, Bell town, Akwa town, &c. Hickory, on the north side of the stream and the starting point of the railway to the interior, is also part of Duala, which has a total population of 2 2,000, including about 170 Europeans.

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  • Amr founded El-Fostat, the oldest of these, close to the fortress which he had besieged.

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  • From Cairo the railway is continued south up the valley of the Nile and close to the river.

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  • The former was held close to the eye, the latter in the other hand, perhaps at arms length.

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  • In the spring of 1891 an agreement was made between England and Italy by which the Italian forces in Eritrea were at liberty, if they were able, to capture and occupy Kassala, which lay close to the western.

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  • His army, however, under Fiki Adam, fought a fierce battle close to El Fasher on the 22nd, which resulted in its defeat and dispersion, and Abu Gemaiza himself dying the following day, the movement collapsed.

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  • The other churches are of minor interest; close to that of La Trinita is the Montagna Spaccata, where a vertical fissure from 6 to 15 ft.

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  • That they should lie there is interesting, because that place is close to one known in man to be associated with management of the movements concerned in speech.

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