Perfect Sentence Examples

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  • I think you're the most perfect person I've ever met.

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  • There was perfect stillness.

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  • You're my most perfect friend in the entire world.

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  • It was the perfect opportunity to test her theory.

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  • This was the most perfect place in the world.

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  • Circumstances had merely presented the perfect opportunity.

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  • He seemed in his heart to reproach her for being too perfect, and because there was nothing to reproach her with.

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  • It was the wish of his father and mother that every day of his life should be a day of perfect happiness.

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  • It made a safe ball that didn't go far, which was perfect for Destiny.

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  • Michael was the perfect candidate.

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  • I didn't expect her to turn out as perfect as she did.

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  • He had offered her a perfect way out.

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  • It was one of those perfect spring days that held the promise of summer.

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  • Train had been the perfect word.

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  • He was dressed in black, and his chiseled features and striking blue eyes were perfect enough to have been sculptured.

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  • Prince Andrew led Pierre to his own apartments, which were always kept in perfect order and readiness for him in his father's house; he himself went to the nursery.

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  • We were in Hawaii and pretty mellowed out on one of those perfect beach nights, watching the moon dance on the incoming surf.

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  • In my account of Helen last year, I mentioned several instances where she seemed to have called into use an inexplicable mental faculty; but it now seems to me, after carefully considering the matter, that this power may be explained by her perfect familiarity with the muscular variations of those with whom she comes into contact, caused by their emotions.

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  • From this you will see that you have a perfect right to reassure the inhabitants of Smolensk, for those defended by two such brave armies may feel assured of victory.

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  • But I will I find another perfect one before I'm on my way!

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  • If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

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  • Mr. Vining was a perfect stranger to me, and could not communicate with me except by writing in braille.

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  • It was the first time you've ever been anything with me but a perfect gentleman.

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  • She'd run her hands over his perfect body, marveling at the smooth skin stretched over solid muscle.

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  • You're perfect, brilliant, and beautiful.

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  • She's as perfect as she can be.

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  • It makes perfect sense, actually.

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  • Maybe accepting a date would be the perfect way to end this one-sided relationship.

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  • I am thankfully ensconced in my perfect house on wheels, mended in body but seething in mind.

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  • It's going to be perfect!

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  • There's few foods as healthy as fresh seafood, which is perfect for those who like to stay active by hiking, biking and other outdoor activities.

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  • As the perfect accompaniment to your meal, choose a bottle of wine from the extensive international wine list.

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  • It would be the perfect opportunity.

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  • Another opportunity will present itself I'm sure, but not where I might be identified with my perfect house on wheels and electric bicycle.

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  • His eyes glinted rather than flashed, his copper skin tight across perfect, chiseled features.

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  • I think whatever you make will be perfect.

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  • And while it may not be perfect, life will be profoundly better for everyone on the planet.

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  • This will likely not ever be perfect, but any insight it can offer us is a gain.

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  • My teacher and other friends think I could ride a Columbia tandem in the country with perfect safety.

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  • I wished to meditate, but instead my imagination pictured an occurrence of four years ago, when Dolokhov, meeting me in Moscow after our duel, said he hoped I was enjoying perfect peace of mind in spite of my wife's absence.

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  • The waterside restaurant has banquet packages and is the perfect place for weddings and other celebrations.

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  • The hours were perfect, nine to five, and the job sounded as if it were tailored for her.

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  • It was a strawberry sunrise, topped with whipped cream clouds, a perfect sort of day until Dean was awake enough to remember Martha Boyd, lord knows where, escaping the law in a stolen twenty-year-old Buick, with a ditzy ex-junkie for a chauffeur.

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  • No matter how many Deidres were shoved into that perfect little body, she'd never have the control over him she once had.

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  • She has a perfect mania for counting.

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  • In such a day, in September or October, Walden is a perfect forest mirror, set round with stones as precious to my eye as if fewer or rarer.

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  • Anatole kissed the old man, and looked at him with curiosity and perfect composure, waiting for a display of the eccentricities his father had told him to expect.

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  • The high protein levels and low calories found in seafood are perfect for those who like to stay active and fit.

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  • This gourmet grocery store features a variety of cuisines that are perfect for dining there or taking with you on the trail.

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  • The small and elegant restaurant is perfect for a special night out or a romantic evening.

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  • This is an ideal spot to pick up incredible sandwiches and other ingredients, like antipasto and fresh mozzarella, for the perfect picnic meal.

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  • Its homey atmosphere, intimate ambience, natural wood decor, breathtaking views and homemade food makes it a perfect special night out restaurant.

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  • The restaurant's dining room is large and spacious, perfect for celebrations.

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  • The rambling restaurant is perfect for large parties or simple dinner gatherings.

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  • There is a surprisingly large wine list at the restaurant, ensuring that you can pair your meal with a perfect bottle or glass.

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  • Known for their signature crab cakes to juicy burgers, this restaurant is perfect for a comfortable dinner with the kids.

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  • It was the perfect opportunity to talk to Alex about their finances.

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  • The topic on Sesame Street was professions, which was the perfect opportunity for Lisa to ask her what Giddon did to earn a living.

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  • It was a perfect evening... until something slithered across her foot.

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  • Then, again, if he did want to talk to her about something, this was the perfect opportunity.

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  • I am serious and fortunately in a perfect position to act.

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  • But we'd always remained a step away, like Martha once said, to retain our perfect friendship.

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  • I stammered, I'm not perfect but that's not why I'm here.

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  • It had been a perfect day at Bird Song—until the phone call came and tanked any semblance of tranquility into a mire of despair.

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  • His eyes went over her perfect legs and lingered on her ass.

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  • If not for the fact she was lying to him, she would be the perfect mate.

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  • Every chain of events starts with one push, a catalyst, the perfect mix of different elements that craft a path and make an outcome more likely.

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  • Even the honey butter was a perfect balance between sweet and rich, and the rolls still warm when she bit into them.

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  • Evelyn appeared serene and perfect, as usual.

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  • It was a good, perfect little life, so much more than she ever expected, with the exception that her best friend in the universe-- Kiera-- might as well have been dead to her as far as Romas and his clan were concerned.

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  • Kiera stared at him, struggling to focus on his face when all she wanted to do was study every inch of his perfect body.

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  • This will be perfect.

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  • It's only perfect because I'm with you.

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  • They're perfect with my dress.

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  • I really never expected it to hang anywhere, but I think you have the perfect spot for it.

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  • It felt so perfect.

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  • I think that's perfect.

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  • Oh, Jackson, that's perfect!

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  • I think that is perfect.

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  • Everything is absolutely perfect.

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  • He had become the perfect gentleman, and that suited her fine.

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  • The perfect place for rattlesnakes — and the warm late March sun would bring them out today.

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  • It was a perfect retreat.

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  • The character of the man reveals itself especially in a perfect simplicity of style, the result of the clearest intelligence and the strongest sense of personal dignity.

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  • All these set forth in their symbolical books the supreme place of Scripture, accepting the position which Zwingli laid down in 1536 in The First Helvetic Confession, namely, that "Canonic Scripture, the Word of God, given by the Holy Spirit and set forth to the world by the Prophets and Apostles, the most perfect and ancient of all philosophies, alone contains perfectly all piety and the whole rule of life."

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  • Suppose that we start with two simple tones in unison; there is perfect consonance.

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  • Kuropatkin, who had taken command of the army, saw from the first that he would have Kuro- to gain three months, and disposed his forces as they patkin's came on the scene, unit by unit, in perfect accord plan.

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  • Montaigne, however, followed with the perfect independence that characterized him.

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  • A perfect set of signs was copied in 1764 from a pagoda at Verdapettah near Cape Comorin, and one equally complete existed at the same period on the ceiling of a temple near Mindurah 9 The hieroglyphs representing the signs of the zodiac in astronomical works are found in manuscripts of about the 10th century, but in carvings not until the 15th or 16th.

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  • In fact, the book could survive for centuries, as could new perfect copies of the book, and thus the ideas could be distributed.

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  • Given perfect information, frictionless markets, and other theoretical impossibilities, a finite amount of utility can be achieved in that way.

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  • What mysterious force guided the seedling from the dark earth up to the light, through leaf and stem and bud, to glorious fulfilment in the perfect flower?

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  • So perfect is this instinct, that once, when I had laid them on the leaves again, and one accidentally fell on its side, it was found with the rest in exactly the same position ten minutes afterward.

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  • One day when I came to the same place forty-eight hours afterward, I found that those large bubbles were still perfect, though an inch more of ice had formed, as I could see distinctly by the seam in the edge of a cake.

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  • The original atmosphere of the residence has been retained, with the much smaller residential rooms functioning as five separate dining areas offering a degree of intimacy that is perfect for small groups and gatherings.

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  • These mountains are perfect destinations for hiking and observing nature.

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  • Arlington is a perfect place for visitors to enjoy an eclectic dining experience.

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  • The bar's atmosphere is perfect for meeting friends after work or a game, and letting the conversation flow.

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  • The restaurant is a perfect place to try out different varieties of dosas (thin rice and lentil crepe), a widely acclaimed dish of South India.

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  • Nightlife includes live entertainment and an outdoor cafe perfect for people watching.

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  • The patio bar is perfect for meeting a group of friends for the weekend or after work.

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  • Known as a canoeing and kayaking destination, the area also boasts plenty of back roads and forested trails perfect for biking, hiking and cross-country skiing adventures.

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  • This spot is perfect for the adventurous tourist looking to go off the beaten path.

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  • The natural beauty of this area is perfect for many outdoor activities, including hiking, biking, boating, fishing and skiing.

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  • This is the perfect place to go for a nice dinner after a day spent in the sun, surf and sand of the gulf coast.

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  • Desserts are the perfect end note to your meal, featuring cheesecake and warm pecan pie with ice cream.

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  • Let the sommelier (wine steward) know what you have chosen for dinner, and allow him to find you the perfect wine to accompany your meal.

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  • The conference room was silent, the air purified, the lighting perfect.

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  • She took the roll and bit into it, surprised to find it tasted perfect.

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  • Without Katie, Jade.s world would be perfect.

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  • Katie ducked again then twisted her hips in a perfect baseball batter.s swing and smacked her hard in the face.

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  • Hannah removed her fur coat with a graceful flourish to reveal her snug clothing and perfect body.

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  • Rather than return home right away, she explored several small jewelry stores, looking for the perfect gift for Evelyn before she took her daily trip to the gym.

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  • The party tonight would be a perfect way to start.

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  • Suns, but she was perfect.

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  • She wasn't good at handling drama; Evelyn had always been like a perfect older sister, capable of patience and listening.

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  • At the moment he wanted nothing more than to reach out to her, and he was uncertain whether he wanted more to kiss those perfect lips or shake some sense into her.

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  • He took in her perfect features once more, impressed again with his choice.

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  • The long flannel nightgown, while perhaps frumpy in someone's eyes, was perfect for the time and season.

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  • And, if practice makes perfect, Ouray, blessed with a beautiful but long winter season, gave its citizens ample opportunity to do just that.

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  • The view from the top was spectacular, the snow perfect and the trail empty of other skiers.

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  • Our whole life together is too perfect to let anything as insignificant as him interfere with it.

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  • We're not perfect, us humans.

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  • The you in my heaven is the person I create in my mind, the perfect you, who never drinks his milk from the cereal bowl and remembers every birthday and holiday with the nicest card he buys the day before, and he sends roses for no reason at all....

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  • What a perfect way to kill someone when they've conveniently given you a suicide note indisputably in their handwriting!

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  • When he read about Annie Quincy's death, that must have seemed too perfect for him to pass up.

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  • With a chuckle and a deep breath of crisp, clear air, he mused, Today would be perfect, were it not for the human locked in the basement.

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  • There were a few landscapes that were quite good, then he opened the page to a perfect likeness of himself.

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  • The bounty of New England's autumn surrounded them, and the sun reflected off the leaves as if it were playing with the tone, searching for the perfect combination of pigment.

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  • Upon seeing him, she said, Perfect timing.

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  • Oh my God, it's perfect.

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  • Perfect. Let's sit down and relax for a bit before we change.

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  • His eyes landed on a perfect Little Red Riding Hood, right down to the ankle socks and patent leather Mary Janes.

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  • The rage and hatred she showed that night made perfect sense now.

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  • The jeweler said it is the most perfect diamond he has ever seen.

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  • Everything was perfect, yet understated.

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  • Deborah acted the perfect lady, never once leering at Jackson.

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  • The bronze features were smooth and perfectly formed - almost too perfect, and yet, not effeminate.

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  • This evening outing was a perfect opportunity to show Katie what she could gain by moving back with him.

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  • The fact that it was the perfect place for a house and provided a spectacular view from the wide porch, was beside the point.

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  • The dry weather was perfect for building.

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  • They were the perfect couple – and Lori didn't want children.

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  • As opposed to you Westerners, where life is perfect.

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  • She wanted to look away from his perfect body but found she couldn't.

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  • The guise had been almost perfect, except for Ully's hands, which had been bony with sharpened nails rather than Ully's human hands.

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  • She added somewhat sheepishly, He's had perfect attendance for all of high school.

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  • Mr. O'Connor has been the perfect host.

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  • He had changed before Dean's eyes to a perfect balance of charm and elegance, guaranteed to have any female eating out of his hand.

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  • Everything about him was perfect, from the glass polish of his black shoes to the knife-like crease in his thousand-dollar suit.

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  • You were a perfect lady.

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  • He plugged in a Coltrane disc and then a Gerry Mulligan and laid back to commiserate with the perfect sound of it all while he closed his eyes and pretended he was happy.

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  • Saturday was one of those days with weather so perfect as to remember weeks after its passing.

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  • It's little Miss Perfect, isn't it?

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  • Traffic was light—nonexistent by eastern standards—made up mostly of Jeeps or pickup trucks, the latter with a dog pacing the back bed in perfect balance.

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  • The two pedaled together most of the afternoon, enjoying the pine-scented air, the cool breeze that hugged the base of the mountains and the yellow sunshine of a perfect spring day.

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  • He exercised enough and his weight was perfect.

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  • An unseasonably cool morning turned into a perfect day.

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  • That deep voice; his perfect health; the way he looked... and made love.

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  • Right now privacy was any place in the house, and she had the perfect husband to share it with.

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  • He had selected the perfect setting for their home.

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  • How else could she have landed such a perfect husband?

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  • Finally, what seemed like the perfect opportunity arrived.

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  • In many ways he was the perfect husband, but trust in a woman had never been his strong point.

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  • Is it because he isn't flesh and blood, or because he is less than perfect?

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  • And she can fight, the perfect minx.

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  • He squeezed her against him, and her eyes went over his perfect body.

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  • She'd always had an eye for a man with a body, and Darian's was perfect.

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  • She'd always thought him her perfect match in the sparring ring.

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  • And now, a small voice told her he'd be her perfect match outside the ring, too.

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  • The phone call from Gerald yesterday provided the perfect opportunity.

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  • It was the perfect excuse to teach Carmen how to handle a gun.

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  • Still, in most ways Alex was the perfect husband.

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  • Lillie twisted and turned, always in perfect time with him.

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  • It would be perfect hideaway - old log cabin in excellent condition - breathtaking scenery.

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  • Clarissa and Denton were a perfect match.

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  • She wasn't certain where her perfect killer was right now.

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  • Xander trailed, watching her perfect, heart-shaped ass.

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  • It was too hard to deal with him when she wanted to stare at his perfect body.

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  • Jessi watched her, blown away by the perfect beauty and her small entourage.

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  • Jessi studied Xander's body once more, forced to admit that the man had the perfect combination of rugged beauty and flawless form.

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  • She rolled her eyes, uninterested in having such a blatant reminder of Toni's perfect body.

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  • She liked the idea of being special, especially with the hoard of beautiful women in front of her whose perfect bodies left her feeling plain.

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  • To endow the universal substance with moral attributes, to maintain that it is more than the metaphysical ground of everything, to say it is the perfect realization of the holy, the beautiful and the good, can only have a meaning for him who feels within himself what real not imaginary values are clothed in those expressions.

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  • We could not choose a more perfect specimen of her style than the allegory under which she pictures the "might have been."

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  • Leslie Stephen advised Thomas Hardy, then an aspiring contributor to the Cornhill, to read George Sand, whose country stories seemed to him perfect.

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  • The polarization in a distinctly oblique direction, however, is not perfect, a feature for which more than one reas9n may be put forward.

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  • By the public he was always regarded as reserved, but within his own inner circle he gave and received perfect confidence.

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  • Their absolute freedom from diffraction, the perfect control of the illumination and thickness of the lines, and the accuracy with which it will be possible to construct scales for zone observations will be important features of the new method.

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  • It is practically impossible to work with the sensitive film in contact with the reseau-film, not only because dust particles and contact would injure the silver film, but also because the plate-glass used for the photographic plates is seldom a perfect plane.

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  • By means of the quick rack motions A and B move the plate so as to bring the reseau-square into the centre of the field of the micrometer; then, by means of the screw heads o, p, perfect the coincidence of the " fixed square " of webs, with the image of the reseau-square.

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  • Even if the slide itself is mechanically perfect, the irregularity in the thickness of the lubricating oil between the bearing surfaces of the slide is apt to produce a variable error.

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  • We find that all our ideas of limits, sorrows and weaknesses presuppose an infinite, perfect and ever-blessed something beyond them and including them, - that all our ideas, in all their series, converge to one central idea, in which they find their explanation.

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  • We have therefore the idea of an infinite, perfect and all-powerful being - an idea which cannot be the creation of ourselves, and must be given by some being who really possesses all that we in idea attribute to him.

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  • To attach a clear and definite meaning to the Cartesian doctrine of God, to show how much of it comes from the Christian theology and how much from the logic of idealism, how far the conception of a personal being as creator and preserver mingles with the pantheistic conception of an infinite and perfect something which is all in all, would be to go beyond Descartes and to ask for a solution of difficulties of which he was 1 Ouvres, vi.

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  • Its main object is to perfect the proficiency of players in certain departments of bowls proper.

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  • It is obvious that the points game demands an ideally perfect green.

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  • The union was not perfect; the presbytery of Donegal was for three years in revolt against the synod; and in 1762 a second presbytery of Philadelphia was formed; but the strength of the synod increased rapidly and at the outbreak of the War of Independence it had 11 presbyteries and 132 ministers.

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  • In Tertiary times the Central Plateau was the theatre of great volcanic activity from the Miocene, to the Pleistocene periods, and many of the volcanoes remain as nearly perfect cones to the present day.

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  • His experimental investigations are carried out with plain and usually home-made apparatus, the accessories being crude and rough, but the essentials thoughtfully designed so as to compass in the simplest and most perfect manner the special end in view.

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  • Holiness, " the perfect accordance of the will with the moral law," demands an endless progress; and " this endless progress is only possible on the supposition of an endless duration of the existence and personality of the same rational being (which is called the immortality of the soul)."

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  • Rough sculptures, too, were found, and two large square mounds formed of loose stones, and yet perfect parallelograms in outline, placed due east and west.

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  • His principal characteristic was perfect confidence in any result obtained by the treatment of symbols in accordance with their primary laws and conditions, and an almost unrivalled skill and power in tracing out these results.

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  • Crystals are prismatic, acicular or scaly in habit; they have a perfect cleavage parallel to the brachypinacoid (M in the figure).

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  • Into the mould left by the saint's body liquid plaster of Paris was run, and a perfect model obtained, showing the features of the youth, the cords which bound him, and even the texture of his clothing.

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  • From this position it easily followed that actions, being merely external, were morally indifferent, and that the true Gnostic should abandon himself to every lust with perfect indifference.

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  • In every mature period of art it will be found that, however much the technical rules may be collected in one special category, every artistic category has a perfect interaction with all the others; and this is nowhere more perfectly shown than when the art is in its simplest possible form of maturity.

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  • The hydraulic crane has a great advantage in possessing an almost ideal brake, for by simply throttling the exhaust from the lifting cylinder the speed of descent can be regulated within very wide limits and with perfect safety.

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  • The climatic conditions in the British Islands are such that it is not possible to maintain, in unfavourable weather, a higher standard than that named, which is the insulation obtained when all the insulators are in perfect condition and only the normal leakage, due to moisture, is present.

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  • It was not, however, a sufficiently perfect representation of a laid cable to serve for duplexing cables of more than a few hundred miles in length.

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  • In Hughes's instrument almost perfect accuracy and certainty have been attained; and in actual practice it has proved to be decidedly superior to all previous type-printing telegraphs, not only in speed and accuracy, but in less liability to mechanical derangement from wear and tear and from accident.

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  • The spark recorder in some respects foreshadowed the more perfect instrument - the siphon recorder - which was introduced some years later.

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  • Owing to the difficulty of maintaining perfect balance on duplexed cables, curb sending is not now used, but the signals are transmitted by means of an apparatus similar to the Wheatstone automatic transmitter used on land lines and differing from the latter only in regard to the alphabet employed; the signals from the transmitter actuate a relay having heavy armatures which in turn transmit the signals to the cable; this arrangement gives very firm signals, a point of great importance for good working.

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  • Mazzini, now openly hostile to the monarchy, was seized with a perfect monomania for insurrections, and promoted various small risings, the only effect of which was to show how completely his influence was gone.

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  • The good man is the perfectly rational or perfect self-consistent man; and that is a full account of virtue, though Kant professes to re-interpret it still further in a much more positive sense as implying the service of humanity.

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  • If perfect knowledge be possible for us, it must take, the form of such a system as Hegel offers.

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  • Anselm tells us that a most perfect being must exist, since the perfection which includes existence is manifestly greater than a perfection confined to an object of thought.

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  • Locke is thus a sensationalist and empiricist, but incompletely, and without perfect coherence.

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  • It was regarded as having conferred upon the nation nothing less than the English constitution in its perfect and completed form.

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  • Both were written evidently in a less hurried fashion than those in the British Museum, and the one at Lincoln was regarded as the most perfect by the commissioners who were responsible for the appearance of the Statutes of the Realm in 1810.

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  • If our knowledge of the life-histories of these organisms were perfect, their polymorphism would present no difficulties to classification; but unfortunately this is far from being the case.

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  • It is true he sets out with a transcendent Deity, and follows Plato in viewing the creation of the cosmos as a process of descent from the more to the less perfect according to the distance from the original self-moving agency.

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  • Matter and form are here identified, and the evolution of the world is presented as the unfolding of the world-spirit to its perfect forms according to the plastic substratum (matter) which is but one of its sides.

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  • The moral training which he received from his grandfather and his mother must have been all but perfect.

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  • The perfect frog, after transformation, is smaller than the larva.

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  • The Pythagorean school of philosophers adopted the theory of a spherical earth, but from metaphysical rather than scientific reasons; their convincing argument was that a sphere being the most perfect solid figure was the only one worthy to circumscribe the dwellingplace of man.

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  • This is the most perfect arrangement attained by the vertebral column, and is typical of, and restricted to, birds.

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  • Thus the council rejected both Nestorianism and Eutychianism, and stood upon the doctrine that Christ had two natures, each perfect in itself and each distinct from the other, yet perfectly united in one person, who was at once both God and man.

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  • It is no dwelling of the dead nor part of the lower world, but distinguished heroes are translated thither without dying, to live a life of perfect happiness.

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  • The perfect insects are for the most part nocturnal and are believed to be carnivorous.

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  • For this purpose they instituted a severe system of discipline, divided their members into three classes - the Perfect, the Proficient, and the Beginners, and appointed over each congregation a body of lay elders.

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  • The eggs and larvae of the fire-flies are luminous as well as the perfect beetles.

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  • The generalized arrangement of the wing-nervure and the nature of the larva, which is less unlike the adult than in other beetles, distinguish this tribe as primitive, although the perfect insects are, in the more dominant families, distinctly specialized.

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  • Like the perfect insects, they are predaceous, feeding on plant-lice (Aphidae) and scale insects (Coccidae).

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  • They are vegetable feeders, both in the perfect and larval stages, and are often highly injurious.

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  • Such an arrangement would be ideally perfect from the point of view of the permanent-way engineer, because it would then be possible to distribute the whole of the load uniformly between the wheels.

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  • This perfection of distribution is practically attained in present-day practice by the multiple control system of operating an electric train, where motors are applied to a selected number of axles in the train, all of them being under the perfect control of the driver.

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  • A " perfect engine " receiving and rejecting steam at the same temperatures as the actual engine of the locomotive, would develop about twice this power, say 1400 I.H.P. This figure represents the ideal but unattainable standard of performance.

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  • That is to say, a perfect engine working between the limits of temperature assigned would convert only 18% of the total heat supply into work.

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  • That is to say, the engine actually utilized 61% of the energy which it was possible to utilize by means of a perfect engine working with the same initial pressure against a back pressure equal to;the atmosphere.

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  • After a rite intended to secure its perfect ceremonial purity, a part of the victim, the vapa, was removed, held over the fire and finally cast into it.

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  • Unlike the walls of most Chinese cities, those of Peking are kept in perfect order.

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  • On the central stone, which is a perfect circle, the emperor kneels.

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  • The cypress doors of the ancient St Peter's at Rome, when removed by Eugenius IV., were about i ioo years old, but nevertheless in a state of perfect preservation.

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  • The species C. torulosa of North India, so called from its twisted bark, attains an altitude of 150 ft.; its branches are erect or ascending, and grow so as to form a perfect cone.

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  • A more memorable and clearly authentic monument of Theodoric is furnished by his tomb, a massive mausoleum which stands still perfect outside the walls near the north-east corner of the city.

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  • Metamorphosis in Diptera is complete; the larvae are utterly different from the perfect insects in appearance, and, although varying greatly in outward form, are usually footless grubs; those of the Muscidae are generally known as maggots.

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  • The majority of authors, however, follow Brauer in dividing the order into two sections, Orthorrhapha and Cyclorrhapha, according to the manner in which the pupa-case splits to admit of the escape of the perfect insect.

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  • Whereas Plato's main problem had been the organization of the perfect state, and Aristotle's intellect had ranged with fresh interest over all departments of the knowable, political speculation had become a mockery with the extinction of free political life, and knowledge as such had lost its freshness for the Greeks of the Roman Empire.

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  • Hardwick Hall is a very perfect example of Elizabethan building; ruins of the old Tudor hall stand near by.

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  • The earlier writers generally assumed perfect mobility of labour and capital.

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  • There is every reason therefore to believe that Firdousi adhered faithfully to these records of antiquity, and that the poem is a perfect storehouse of the genuine traditions of the country.

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  • These dorsal eyes are very perfect in elaboration, possessing lens, retinal nerve-end cells, retinal pigment and optic nerve.

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  • The most convincing proof of this is that Origen (i) takes the idea of the immutability of God as the regulating idea of his system, and (2) deprives the historical "Word made flesh" of all significance for the true Gnostic. To him Christ appears simply as the Logos who is with the Father from eternity, and works from all eternity, to whom alone the instructed Christian directs his thoughts, requiring nothing more than a perfect - i.e.

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  • The Expeditionary Force was conveyed across the Channel in perfect safety, and its communications safeguarded; and the German mercantile marine was soon cleared from the seas.

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  • The platy minerals have also a perfect cleavage parallel to their flat surfaces, while the fibrous species often have two or more cleavages following their long axes; hence a schistose rock may split not only by separation of the mineral plates from one another but also by cleavage of the parallel minerals through their substance.

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  • On the other hand, we find in the vast majority of the Hexapoda a very marked difference between the perfect insect (imago) and the young animal when newly hatched and for some time after hatching.

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  • It has been previously remarked that the phenomena of holometabolism are connected with the development of wings inside the body (except in the case of the fleas, where there are no wings in the perfect insect).

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  • The mineral has a very perfect cleavage parallel to the faces c and m, and the cleavage surfaces are perfectly smooth and bright.

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  • Barytes is of common occurrence in metalliferous veins, especially those which yield ores of lead and silver; some of the largest and most perfect crystals of colourless barytes were obtained from the lead mines near Dufton in Westmorland.

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  • The most perfect example of this style in ecclesiastical architecture is the little church of the Miracoli built by Pietro Lombardo in 1480.

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  • Perfect orbicular webs are made by many genera of Argyopidae (Zilla, Meta, Gasteracantha), the best-known example being that of the common garden spider of England, Aranea or Epeira diademata; but these webs are not associated with any tubular retreat except such as are made under an adjoining leaf or in some nook hard by.

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  • The habits of certain other spiders suggest the origin of the perfect adaptation to aquatic conditions exhibited by Desis and Argyroneta.

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  • The average yield of lint per " saw " in the United States, when working under perfect conditions, is about 6 lb per hour.

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  • The production, therefore, of the most perfect and efficient cotton-cleaning machinery is of importance alike to the planter and manufacturer.

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  • It might be thought that the "futures" of different months, being substitutes in proportion to their temporal proximity to one another, should vary together exactly; but it would seem to be a sufficient reply that as they are not perfect substitutes they are in some slight degree independent variables.

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  • The knight who joined the Crusades might thus still indulge the bellicose side of his genius - under the aegis and at the bidding of the Church; and in so doing he would also attain what the spiritual side of his nature ardently sought - a perfect salvation and remission of sins.

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  • It is the Church which creates the First Crusade, because the clergy believes in penitentiary pilgrimages, and the war against the Seljuks can be turned into a pilgrimage to the Sepulchre; because, again, it wishes to direct the fighting instinct of the laity, and the consecrating name of Jerusalem provides an unimpeachable channel; above all, because the papacy desires a perfect and universal Church, and a perfect and universal Church must rule in the Holy Land.

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  • The Cid of history, though falling short of the poetical ideal which the patriotism of his countrymen has so long cherished, is still the foremost man of the heroical period of Spain - the greatest warrior produced out of the long struggle between Christian and Moslem, and the perfect type of the Castilian of the 12th century.

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  • His true place in history is that of the greatest of the guerrilleros - the perfect type of that sort of warrior in which, from the days of Viriathus to those of Juan Diaz, El Empecinado, the soil of Spain has been most productive.

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  • He is the Perfect One, the Born in a Happy Hour, "My Cid," the invincible, the magnanimous, the allpowerful.

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  • Archytas may be quoted as an example of Plato's perfect ruler, the philosopher-king, who combines practical sagacity with high character and philosophic insight.

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  • Brazil's chief industrial importance is due to its situation in the heart of the "Brazil block" coal (so named because it naturally breaks into almost perfect rectangular blocks) and clay and shale region; among its manufactures are mining machinery and tools, boilers, paving and enamelled building bricks, hollow bricks, tiles, conduits, sewer-pipe and pottery.

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  • His perfect command of temper, his moderation of speech and action, in a bitterly personal age, never failed, and were his most effective weapons; but he made his power felt in other ways.

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  • He was a powerful preacher and teacher, who broke from Calvinism in denying imputation and teaching perfect freedom of the will, by which perfect holiness might be attained.

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  • From an analogy instituted between the healthy human being and gold, the most perfect of the metals, silver, mercury, copper, iron, lead and tin, were regarded in the light of lepers that required to be healed.

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  • Gold, the most perfect metal, had the symbol of the Sun, 0; silver, the semiperfect metal, had the symbol of the Moon, 0j; copper, iron and antimony, the imperfect metals of the gold class, had the symbols of Venus Mars and the Earth tin and lead, the imperfect metals of the silver class, had the symbols of Jupiter 94, and Saturn h; while mercury, the imperfect metal of both the gold and silver class, had the symbol of the planet,.

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  • If we denote the critical volume, pressure and temperature by Vk, Pk and Tk, then it may be shown, either by considering the characteristic equation as a perfect cube in v or by using the relations that dp/dv=o, d 2 p/dv 2 =o at the critical point, that Vk = 3b, Pk= a/27b2, T ic = 8a/27b.

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  • This rule, however, is by no means perfect.

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  • Ammonium iodide assumes cubic forms with perfect cubic cleavage; tetramethyl ammonium iodide is tetragonal with perfect cleavages parallel to {100} and {o01} - a difference due to the lengthening of the a axes; tetraethyl ammonium iodide also assumes tetragonal forms, but does not exhibit the cleavage of the tetramethyl compound; while tetrapropyl ammonium iodide crystallizes in rhombic form.

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  • The bare conception of such art as this shows how perfect is the unity between the different elements in Wagner's later musicdrama.

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  • Die Meistersinger is perhaps Wagner's most nearly perfect work of art; and it is a striking proof of its purity and greatness that, while the whole work is in the happiest comic vein, no one ever thinks of it as in any way slighter than Wagner's tragic works.

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  • The overwhelming love-tragedy of Tristan and Isolde is hardly less perfect, though the simplicity of its action exposes its longueurs to greater notoriety than those which may be found in Die Meistersinger.

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  • Eckhart is in truth the first who attempted with perfect freedom and logical consistency to give a speculative basis to religious doctrines.

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  • Her intellectual honesty was as perfect as Frederick's own, and she was as incapable as he was of endeavouring to blind herself to the quality of her own acts.

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  • In 1677 the fundamental laws of West New Jersey were published, and recognized in a most absolute form the principles of democratic equality and perfect freedom of conscience.

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  • His long life enabled him to perfect the organization of Methodism and to inspire his preachers and people with his own ideals, while he had conquered opposition by unwearying patience and by close adherence to the principles which he sought to teach.

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  • During this process the capsules ripen, and are thus obtained in a perfect state.

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  • They are then preserved in envelopes attached to a sheet of paper of the ordinary size, a single perfect specimen being washed, and spread out under the envelope so as to show the habit of the plant.

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  • The inscription, having been buried for so many centuries beneath the soil, is in perfect preservation.

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  • Without resorting to this exaggeration, Mommsen can speak with perfect truth of the " enormous space occupied by the burial vaults of Christian Rome, not surpassed even by the cloacae or sewers of Republican Rome," but the data are too vague to warrant any attempt to define their dimensions.

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  • That such vast excavations should have been made without attracting attention, and that such an immense number of corpses could have been carried to burial in perfect secrecy is utterly impossible.

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  • The walls have been carefully preserved and are remarkably perfect.

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  • The cathedral is also renowned for the beauty and perfect proportions of its western towers.

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  • In this all-important doctrine of the Sephiroth, the Kabbalah insists upon the fact that these potencies are not creations of the En Soph, which would be a diminution of strength; that they form among themselves and with the En Soph a strict unity, and simply represent different aspects of the same being, just as the different rays which proceed from the light, and which appear different things to the eye, are only different manifestations of one and the same light; that for this reason they all alike partake of the perfections of the En Soph; and that as emanations from the Infinite, the Sephiroth are infinite and perfect like the En Soph, and yet constitute the first finite things.

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  • They are infinite and perfect when the En Soph imparts his fullness to them, and finite and imperfect when that fullness is withdrawn from them.

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  • Hence it is most intimately allied to the Deity, and is perfect and immutable.

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  • We have already seen that the Sephiric decade or the archetypal man, like Christ, is considered to be of a double nature, both infinite and finite, perfect and imperfect.

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  • The tidal action of the gulf is so slight and the marshes are so low that perfect drainage cannot be obtained through tide gates, which must therefore be supplemented by pumping machinery when rains are heavy or landward winds long prevail.

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  • Thus rational mechanics, based on the Newtonian Laws, viewed as mathematics is independent of its supposed application, and hydrodynamics remains a coherent and respected science though it is extremely improbable that any perfect fluid exists in the physical world.

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  • The difference between the two, in Clement's judgment, was that the Greek philosophers had only glimpses of the truth, that they attained only to fragments of the truth, while Christianity revealed in Christ the absolute and perfect truth.

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  • The Jew and the heathen had the gospel preached to them in the world below by Christ and his apostles, and Christians will have to pass through processes of purification and trial after death before they reach knowledge and perfect bliss.

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  • The Liber abaci, which fills 459 printed pages, contains the most perfect methods of calculating with whole numbers and with fractions, practice, extraction of the square and cube roots, proportion, chain rule, finding of proportional parts, averages, progressions, even compound interest, just as in the completest mercantile arithmetics of our days.

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  • The Tholos lay to the south-west of the temple of Asclepius; it must, when perfect, have been one of the most beautiful buildings in Greece; the exquisite carving of its mouldings is only equalled by that of the Erechtheum at Athens.

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  • Protestants have condemned these formulae as so much magic, and in this modern science tends to agree with them; but to orthodox Protestants at least Catholics have a perfect right to reply that, in taking this line, they are but repeating the accusation brought by the Pharisees against Christ, viz.

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  • But this is not yet perfect, although it has all the form of a perfect insect and is capable of flight; it is what is variously termed a "pseudimago," "sub-imago" or "pro-imago."

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  • They were acquainted with iron, and learned from their subjects the art of bronze-casting, which they used for decorative purposes only, and to which they gave a still higher artistic stamp. Their pottery is much more perfect and more artistic than that of the Bronze period, and their ornaments are accounted among the finest of the collections at the St Petersburg museum of the Hermitage.

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  • The great opponent of their Christology, which was known as Nihilianism, was the German scholar Gerhoch, who, for his bold assertion of the perfect interpenetration of deity and humanity in Christ, was accused of Eutychianism.

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  • When a skew symmetric determinant is of even degree it is a perfect square.

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  • If (f,4) 1 be not a perfect square, and rx, s x be its linear factors, it is possible to express f and 4, in the canonical forms Xi(rx)2+X2(sx)2, 111(rx)2+1.2 (sx) 2 respectively.

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  • If, moreover, 0 vanishes identically f is a perfect cube.

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  • The quartic has four equal roots, that is to say, is a perfect fourth power, when the Hessian vanishes identically; and conversely.

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  • The quartic will have two pairs of equal roots, that is, will be a perfect square, if it and its Hessian merely differ by a numerical factor.

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  • When a z and the invariants B and C all vanish, either A or j must vanish; in the former case j is a perfect cube, its Hessian vanishing, and further f contains j as a factor; in the latter case, if p x, ax be the linear factors of i, f can be expressed as (pa) 5 f =cip2+c2ay; if both A and j vanish i also vanishes identically, and so also does f.

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  • Le Quatrieme Evangile, one thousand large pages long, is possibly over-confident in its detailed application of the allegorical method; yet it constitutes a rarely perfect sympathetic reproduction of a great mystical believer's imperishable intuitions.

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  • Freeman considered it "the most perfect surviving church of its kind in England, if not in Europe."

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  • The principal points of difference are that (I) the magnetic permeability, unlike the electric conductivity, which is independent of the strength of the current, is not in general constant; (2) there is no perfect insulator for magnetic induction, which will pass more or less freely through all known substances.

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  • Soc. 42, 200), and in the following year they described a more complete and perfect series (Phil.

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  • These observations have been verified and extended by Knott, whose researches have brought to light a large number of additional facts, all of which are in perfect harmony with Maxwell's explanation of the twist.

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  • If, however, the molecules could turn with perfect freedom, it is clear that the smallest magnetizing force would be sufficient to develop the highest possible degree of magnetization, which is of course not the case.

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  • The accuracy of this law was in 1832 confirmed by Gauss, 3 who employed an indirect but more perfect method than that of Coulomb, and also, as Maxwell remarks, 1 The quotations are from the translation published by the Gilbert Club, London, 1900.

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  • He went to the place of execution in Lincoln's Inn Fields with perfect calmness, which was preserved to the last.

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  • In the Berlin Memoirs for 1778 and 1783 Lagrange gave the first direct and theoretically perfect method of determining cometary orbits.

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  • In order that international arbitration may do its perfect work, it is not enough to set up a standing tribunal, whether at the Hague or elsewhere, and to equip it with elaborate rules of procedure.

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  • The naval revolt of 1893-1894, however, had aroused the spirit of militarism in the ruling classes, and the effort to perfect the organization and equipment of the army, strengthen the fortifications of Rio de Janeiro, and increase the navy, have kept expenditures in excess of the revenues.

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  • Early in 1894 dissensions occurred between Saraiva and Mello, which prevented any advance of the insurgent forces, and allowed Peixoto to perfect his plans.

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  • Although it suffered at the hands of revolutionary fanatics in 1688, the damage was confined mainly to the external ornament, and the chapel, owing to restoration in judicious taste, is now in perfect condition.

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  • The two opposing theories express at bottom, in the phraseology of their own time, the radical divergence of pantheism and individualism - the two extremes between which philosophy seems pendulum-wise to oscillate, and which may be said still to await their perfect reconciliation.

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  • But the Platonically conceived proof of the being of God contained in the Monologion shows that Anselm's doctrine of the universals as substances in things (universalia in re) was closely connected in his mind with the thought of the universalia ante rem, the exemplars of perfect goodness and truth and justice, by participation in which all earthly things are judged to possess these qualities.

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  • Cobden was thus relegated to private life, and retiring to his country house at Dunford, he spent his time in perfect contentment in cultivating his land and feeding his pigs.

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  • This produced irritation and resentment in Paris, and but for the influence which Cobden had acquired, and the perfect trust reposed in his sincerity, the negotiations would probably have been altogether wrecked.

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  • None of them possesses an overwhelming majority, but perfect equality is granted to all religious creeds legally recognized.

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  • One of the only seven perfect copies extant of the Vienna (1574) edition is in the British Museum library.

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  • To him it was Revival left to perfect that work of restoration begun by Baroti t th and amplified by Revai.

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  • The Arabians more closely resembled the Hindus than the Greeks in the choice of studies; their philosophers blended speculative dissertations with the more progressive study of medicine; their mathematicians neglected the subtleties of the conic sections and Diophantine analysis, and applied themselves more particularly to perfect the system of numerals, arithmetic and astronomy.

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  • Supposing a number of some species of arthropod or fish to be swept into a cavern or to be carried from less to greater depths in the sea, those individuals with perfect eyes would follow the glimmer of light and eventually escape to the outer air or the shallower depths, leaving behind those with imperfect eyes to breed in the dark place.

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  • But, as we have seen, such an error of phase causes no sensible deterioration in the definition; so that from this point onwards the lens is useless, as only improving an image already sensibly as perfect as the aperture admits of.

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  • If we suppose the focal length to be 66 ft., a single lens is practically perfect up to an aperture of 1 .

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  • In this way it may happen that although there is almost perfect periodicity with each revolution of the screw after (say) loo lines, yet the loo lines themselves are not equally spaced.

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  • The advantage of approximate bisection lies in the superior brilliancy of the surviving spectra; but in any case the compound grating may be considered to be perfect in the longer interval, and the definition is as good as if the bisection were accurate.

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