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  • …of youth declines; as years and dumps increase; as reflection lends her solemn pauses; in short, as a general lassitude overtakes the sated Turk; then a love of ease and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amorous errors.†   (source)
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  • Isaac lived in a small ranch house in Meridian Hills next to this fancy private school.†   (source)
  • They'd seldom traveled that direction; that old life, suddenly so remote, had been oriented along the meridian of Highway 13, with Ashland to the north, and everything else—Wausau, Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago—to the south.†   (source)
  • The chapel's geographic coordinates fall precisely on the north-south meridian that runs through Glastonbury.†   (source)
  • Has too, he lives in Meridian.†   (source)
  • And Meridian to Greenville.†   (source)
  • Fremen mark the observance according to the ninth meridian-crossing cycle of the first moon.†   (source)
  • From Meridian.†   (source)
  • They were now in the domain of the meridian's ruler, the Golden Dragon.†   (source)
  • This I would tell them, not under covert, but in words as clear as the sun in its meridian brightness.†   (source)
  • An improved meridian groove and a sharper edge.†   (source)
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  • I'd been dreaming about New York—of Shari and me moving there, and finding no better place to live than a cardboard refrigerator box on some kind of highway meridian, and my having to get a job folding T-shirts—miles and miles of capped-sleeved T-shirts—at the Gap.†   (source)
  • All that happened was that as the sun passed the meridian at Cape Town-it went out.†   (source)
  • In Meridian (I had only gone ninety miles from Jackson) there was a wait of hours for the train that went from New Orleans to New York.†   (source)
  • Several leading Mississippi newspapers, including the Columbus Democrat, the Canton Mail and the Meridian Mercury, vigorously criticized Lamar, as didmany of his old friends, maintaining that he had surrendered Southern principle and honor.†   (source)
  • The dials read: A.D. 2301 VENUS EARTH MARS Mean Solar Day 22 February 15 Duodecember 35 Noon + 09 0205 Greenwich 2220 Central Syrtis MOON IO GANYMEDE CALLISTO TITAN TRITON 2D3H 1D1H 6D8H 13D12H 15D3H 4D9H (eclipsed) (transit) Night, noon, summer, winter… without bothering to think, Reich could have rattled off the time and season for any meridian on any body in the solar system.†   (source)
  • The crown/meridian pressure point was one he had used countless times.†   (source)
  • She drove around the square and out the Meridian highway until she came to a fork in the road.†   (source)
  • At last I pulled off campus and headed north up Meridian toward the highway.†   (source)
  • So instead of turning to go home, I kept driving north up Meridian Street until I merged onto 1-465.†   (source)
  • Dill would be leaving for Meridian tomorrow; today he was off with Jem at Barker's Eddy.†   (source)
  • Change cars on the Y. D… Coming through the territory to Meridian.†   (source)
  • Dill left us early in September, to return to Meridian.†   (source)
  • Berta in Meridian and she living at ease oh-ah.†   (source)
  • Think they're still searchin' all the picture shows in Meridian.†   (source)
  • Berta in Meridian and she living at ease well.†   (source)
  • Barker's Eddy is at the end of a dirt road off the Meridian highway about a mile from town.†   (source)
  • At Meridian the women got out with their children.†   (source)
  • The group backed up a few yards to an old metal door, which Langdon now realized was located at the hallway's central point—the meridian that divided the Senate Basement (SB) and the House Basement (HB).†   (source)
  • Dill was a curiosity because he was from Meridian, Mississippi, and was wise in the ways of the world.†   (source)
  • They are thin brown girls who have looked long at hollyhocks in the backyards of Meridian, Mobile, Aiken, and Baton Rouge.†   (source)
  • On a globe, a Rose Line—also called a meridian or longitude—was any imaginary line drawn from the North Pole to the South Pole.†   (source)
  • The old Baron had decreed a meridian-to-meridian rest from labors, and effort had been spent in the family city of Harko to create the illusion of gaiety: banners flew from buildings, new paint had been splashed on the walls along Court Way.†   (source)
  • One such girl from Mobile, or Meridian, or Aiken who did not sweat in her armpits nor between her thighs, who smelled of wood and vanilla, who had made souffles in the Home Economics Department, moved with her husband, Louis, to Lorain, Ohio.†   (source)
  • I followed the highway east, and then south, then west, then north, and then east again, until I ended up at the same Meridian Street exit where I'd started.†   (source)
  • ROSLIN This ancient spelling, Langdon explained to Sophie, derived from the Rose Line meridian on which the chapel sat; or, as Grail academics preferred to believe, from the "Line of Rose"—the ancestral lineage of Mary Magdalene.†   (source)
  • Meridian.†   (source)
  • Dill was from Meridian, Mississippi, was spending the summer with his aunt, Miss Rachel, and would be spending every summer in Maycomb from now on.†   (source)
  • We were taking a short cut across the square when four dusty cars came in from the Meridian highway, moving slowly in a line.†   (source)
  • Still in wrist manacles, he wandered two miles out of Meridian where he discovered a small animal show and was immediately engaged to wash the camel.†   (source)
  • She's run distracted lookin' for you— you watch out she don't ship you back to Meridian first thing in the mornin'.†   (source)
  • He had taken thirteen dollars from his mother's purse, caught the nine o'clock from Meridian and got off at Maycomb Junction.†   (source)
  • The letter said he had a new father whose picture was enclosed, and he would have to stay in Meridian because they planned to build a fishing boat.†   (source)
  • But Dill got him the third day, when he told Jem that folks in Meridian certainly weren't as afraid as the folks in Maycomb, that he'd never seen such scary folks as the ones in Maycomb.†   (source)
  • His family was from Maycomb County originally, his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars.†   (source)
  • Two days later Dill arrived in a blaze of glory: he had ridden the train by himself from Meridian to Maycomb Junction (a courtesy title— Maycomb Junction was in Abbott County) where he had been met by Miss Rachel in Maycomb's one taxi; he had eaten dinner in the diner, he had seen two twins hitched together get off the train in Bay St. Louis and stuck to his story regardless of threats.†   (source)
  • Refreshed by food, Dill recited this narrative: having been bound in chains and left to die in the basement (there were basements in Meridian) by his new father, who disliked him, and secretly kept alive on raw field peas by a passing farmer who heard his cries for help (the good man poked a bushel pod by pod through the ventilator), Dill worked himself free by pulling the chains from the wall.†   (source)
  • Meridian.†   (source)
  • Rex's naked eyes could also see subtle differences in the way it had been crafted-the meridian groove where the shaft had once been attached was deeper and sturdier, the edge much sharper.†   (source)
  • Early in February the fleet crossed the 180th meridian, the International Dateline, and veterans like Mike initiated the men making their first crossing.†   (source)
  • All of them, the fat woman and her four children, three boys and a girl, Helene and her daughter, squatted there in the four o'clock Meridian sun.†   (source)
  • In all the natural volume of her baritone voice she thundered them out to the scattered and few who had waited under lights too poor to read by-first in the colored waiting room, then in the white waiting room, to echo both times from the vault of the roof: "… Meridian.†   (source)
  • The sun, now half-way to meridian, was hot and no breeze blew in that sheltered spot.†   (source)
  • The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west.†   (source)
  • In the very meridian of the night's enjoyment, about an hour after tea, a rap was heard at the door.†   (source)
  • , of Geneva, accurately set to the meridian of Hamburg.†   (source)
  • All his blots upon my documents, were dropped there after twelve o'clock, meridian.†   (source)
  • The one hundred and first meridian was passed.†   (source)
  • In 1838 the American Wilkes advanced as far as the 69th parallel on the 100th meridian.†   (source)
  • It went along the 50th meridian with considerable speed.†   (source)
  • The sun was about two hours past the meridian; the red walls of the desert were closing in; the V-shaped split where the Colorado cut through was in sight.†   (source)
  • At midday the sky to the south warmed to rose-colour, and marked where the bulge of the earth intervened between the meridian sun and the northern world.†   (source)
  • "Why eat all that dirt?" he exclaimed, with an oriental energy of expression—about the only sort of energy you can find a trace of east of the fiftieth meridian.†   (source)
  • Quadruped; seen by star-light, and by the aid of a pocket-lamp, in the prairies of North America—see Journal for Latitude and Meridian.†   (source)
  • Remember the heats of July, my daughter; nor venture further than thou canst retrace before the meridian.†   (source)
  • In other words, while Phileas Fogg, going eastward, saw the sun pass the meridian eighty times, his friends in London only saw it pass the meridian seventy-nine times.†   (source)
  • Open a passage; and I promise ye, Mistress Prynne shall be set where man, woman, and child may have a fair sight of her brave apparel from this time till an hour past meridian.†   (source)
  • By half-past five, post meridian, Horse Guards' time, it has even elicited a new remark from the Honourable Mr. Stables, which bids fair to outshine the old one, on which he has so long rested his colloquial reputation.†   (source)
  • So, swinging his seated form to the roll of the ship, and with his astrological-looking instrument placed to his eye, he remained in that posture for some moments to catch the precise instant when the sun should gain its precise meridian.†   (source)
  • Heyward watched the sun, as he darted his meridian rays through the branches of the trees, and pined for the moment when the policy of Magua should change their route to one more favorable to his hopes.†   (source)
  • From Shakespeare there gushed a flame of such marvellous splendor that men shaded their eyes as against the sun's meridian glory; nor even when the works of his own elucidators were flung upon him did he cease to flash forth a dazzling radiance from beneath the ponderous heap.†   (source)
  • At meridian the French ship was hull down, dead to leeward, the disparity of sailing on a wind being very great, and some islands were near by, behind which Jasper said it would be possible for the cutter to conceal her future movements.†   (source)
  • The North Star was directly in the wind's eye, and since evening the Bear had swung round it outwardly to the east, till he was now at a right angle with the meridian.†   (source)
  • On July 20 we cut the Tropic of Capricorn at longitude 105°, and by the 27th of the same month, we had cleared the equator on the 110th meridian.†   (source)
  • Let us not be upset and overwhelmed in that terrible rapid and whirlpool called a dinner, situated in the meridian shallows.†   (source)
  • And just as the conclusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uncertain if not founded on observations of the seen heavens, in relation to a single meridian and a single horizon, so would my conclusions be vain and uncertain if not founded on that conception of right, which has been and will be always alike for all men, which has been revealed to me as a Christian, and which can always be trusted in my soul.†   (source)
  • [Footnote a: The 20th degree of longitude, according to the meridian of Washington, agrees very nearly with the 97th degree on the meridian of Greenwich.†   (source)
  • The sun had nearly reached the meridian, and his scorching rays fell full on the rocks, which seemed themselves sensible of the heat.†   (source)
  • It was about a mile and a half from Weatherbury, and in the meridian times of stage-coach travelling had been the place where many coaches changed and kept their relays of horses.†   (source)
  • Rochester, I have just discovered the sun is far declined from its meridian, and Pilot is actually gone home to his dinner.†   (source)
  • The high trees that were growing on the very verge of the wheel-tracks excluded the sun's rays, unless at meridian; and the slowness of the evaporation, united with the rich mould of vegetable decomposition that covered the whole country to the depth of several inches, occasioned but an indifferent foundation for the footing of travellers.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, as he was in many ways a most valuable person to me, and all the time before twelve o'clock, meridian, was the quickest, steadiest creature too, accomplishing a great deal of work in a style not easy to be matched—for these reasons, I was willing to overlook his eccentricities, though indeed, occasionally, I remonstrated with him.†   (source)
  • It was hardly to be doubted, that several vessels reported to have encountered, at such or such a time, or on such or such a meridian, a Sperm Whale of uncommon magnitude and malignity, which whale, after doing great mischief to his assailants, had completely escaped them; to some minds it was not an unfair presumption, I say, that the whale in question must have been no other than Moby Dick.†   (source)
  • This traveller particularly mentions, on the subject of the great American desert, that a line may be drawn nearly parallel to the 20th degree of longitude *a (meridian of Washington), beginning from the Red River and ending at the River Platte.†   (source)
  • The sun, but little past its meridian, shone down upon the clergyman, and gave a distinctness to his figure, as he stood out from all the earth, to put in his plea of guilty at the bar of Eternal Justice.†   (source)
  • I am abroad at night, my good girl, because the earth in its diurnal revolutions leaves the light of the sun but half the time on any given meridian, and because what I have to do cannot be performed in twelve or fifteen consecutive hours.†   (source)
  • The first thing that met his eye was the meridian, drawn by the abbe on the wall, by which he calculated the time; then he saw the remains of the bed on which the poor prisoner had died.†   (source)
  • The long and fruitless march which they had made under the direction of Abiram, the discovery of the body, and its subsequent interment, had so far consumed the day, that by the time their steps were retraced across the broad track of waste which lay between the grave of Asa and the rock, the sun had fallen far below his meridian altitude.†   (source)
  • I feared my hopes were too bright to be realised; and I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that I imagined my fortune had passed its meridian, and must now decline.†   (source)
  • In the morning, one might say, his face was of a fine florid hue, but after twelve o'clock, meridian—his dinner hour—it blazed like a grate full of Christmas coals; and continued blazing—but, as it were, with a gradual wane—till 6 o'clock, P.M. or thereabouts, after which I saw no more of the proprietor of the face, which gaining its meridian with the sun, seemed to set with it, to rise, culminate, and decline the following day, with the like regularity and undiminished glory.†   (source)
  • This famous timepiece, always regulated on the Greenwich meridian, which was now some seventy-seven degrees westward, was at least four hours slow.†   (source)
  • Castor and Pollux with their quiet shine were almost on the meridian: the barren and gloomy Square of Pegasus was creeping round to the north-west; far away through the plantation Vega sparkled like a lamp suspended amid the leafless trees, and Cassiopeia's chair stood daintily poised on the uppermost boughs.†   (source)
  • The General Grant passed, on the 23rd of November, the one hundred and eightieth meridian, and was at the very antipodes of London.†   (source)
  • Going along the 55th meridian, the Nautilus cut the Antarctic Circle on March 16 near eight o'clock in the morning.†   (source)
  • "Yes," the captain replied coolly, "the Antarctic pole, that unknown spot crossed by every meridian on the globe.†   (source)
  • Passepartout was ignorant that, if the face of his watch had been divided into twenty-four hours, like the Italian clocks, he would have no reason for exultation; for the hands of his watch would then, instead of as now indicating nine o'clock in the morning, indicate nine o'clock in the evening, that is, the twenty-first hour after midnight precisely the difference between London time and that of the one hundred and eightieth meridian.†   (source)
  • The next day, January 26, we cut the equator on the 82nd meridian and we reentered the northern hemisphere.†   (source)
  • Sir Francis corrected Passepartout's time, whereupon the latter made the same remark that he had done to Fix; and upon the general insisting that the watch should be regulated in each new meridian, since he was constantly going eastward, that is in the face of the sun, and therefore the days were shorter by four minutes for each degree gone over, Passepartout obstinately refused to alter his watch, which he kept at London time.†   (source)
  • Now in open water, the Nautilus took a direct course to the pole without veering from the 52nd meridian.†   (source)
  • That same year the American Morrel, whose reports are dubious, went along the 42nd meridian, finding open sea at latitude 70° 14'.†   (source)
  • Near eleven o'clock in the morning, we cut the Tropic of Capricorn on the 37th meridian, passing well out from Cape Frio.†   (source)
  • I bowed, and the commander went on: "We're in longitude 137° 15' west of the meridian of Paris, and latitude 30° 7' north, in other words, about 300 miles from the shores of Japan.†   (source)
  • That same year a humble seal fisherman, the Englishman Weddell, went as far as latitude 72° 14' on the 35th meridian, and as far as 74° 15' on the 36th.†   (source)
  • In these Antarctic districts, as is well known, Sir James Clark Ross had found the craters of Mt. Erebus and Mt. Terror in fully active condition on the 167th meridian at latitude 77° 32'.†   (source)
  • On January 17, 1773, the famous Captain Cook went along the 38th meridian, arriving at latitude 67° 30'; and on January 30, 1774, along the 109th meridian, he reached latitude 71° 15'.†   (source)
  • It was located between latitude 5° 55' and 9° 49' north, and between longitude 79° 42' and 82° 4' east of the meridian of Greenwich; its length is 275 miles; its maximum width, 150 miles; its circumference, 900 miles; its surface area, 24,448 square miles, in other words, a little smaller than that of Ireland.†   (source)
  • Fifteen days later and 2,000 leagues farther, the Helvetia from the Compagnie Nationale and the Shannon from the Royal Mail line, running on opposite tacks in that part of the Atlantic lying between the United States and Europe, respectively signaled each other that the monster had been sighted in latitude 42° 15' north and longitude 60° 35' west of the meridian of Greenwich.†   (source)
  • West of which meridian?†   (source)
  • Naomi Shapiro had this loud, blustering, sarcastic persona that she used at all times, and Anna Tuchman was OK but invariably clutching a paperback with a title like The Meridian Sword or Cleavage of Destiny or something.†   (source)
  • Listener, S. E. by E.: Narrator, N. W. by W.: on the 53rd parallel of latitude, N., and 6th meridian of longitude, W.: at an angle of 45 degrees to the terrestrial equator.†   (source)
  • A Prairie Sunset Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn, The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd for once to colors; The light, the general air possess'd by them—colors till now unknown, No limit, confine—not the Western sky alone—the high meridian— North, South, all, Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.†   (source)
  • I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting.†   (source)
  • I cannot help promising myself, from such a dawn, that the meridian of this youth will be equal to that of either the elder or the younger Brutus.†   (source)
  • You mention'd me, For some instructions: I will tell you, sir, (Since we are met here in this height of Venice,) Some few perticulars I have set down, Only for this meridian, fit to be known Of your crude traveller, and they are these.†   (source)
  • Sometimes towards Eden, which now in his view Lay pleasant, his grieved look he fixes sad; Sometimes towards Heaven, and the full-blazing sun, Which now sat high in his meridian tower: Then, much revolving, thus in sighs began.†   (source)
  • Native of Heaven, for other place None can than Heaven such glorious shape contain; Since, by descending from the thrones above, Those happy places thou hast deigned a while To want, and honour these, vouchsafe with us Two only, who yet by sovran gift possess This spacious ground, in yonder shady bower To rest; and what the garden choicest bears To sit and taste, till this meridian heat Be over, and the sun more cool decline.†   (source)
  • Uriel, no wonder if thy perfect sight, Amid the sun's bright circle where thou sitst, See far and wide: In at this gate none pass The vigilance here placed, but such as come Well known from Heaven; and since meridian hour No creature thence: If Spirit of other sort, So minded, have o'er-leaped these earthly bounds On purpose, hard thou knowest it to exclude Spiritual substance with corporeal bar.†   (source)
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