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stratosphere
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  • When they also learned that YaYa would be joining their ranks and that Zenuvian iron had been procured for arrows and pike tips, confidence spiraled up to the stratosphere.†   (source)
  • Hunter stood at the counter, preparing what Sarah claimed was the best pizza in the stratosphere.†   (source)
  • I wanted to be winged and silver and unseen in the dizzying heights of the stratosphere, where I would drop from the safety of cumulus and prey on enemy fleets and cities whose surprised citizens would speak not a single word I could comprehend.†   (source)
  • The odds of Boomer trusting him with any data on this are so long they reach through the stratosphere.†   (source)
  • But there was never any sign of their presence, save an occasional vapour trail high against the blue of the stratosphere.†   (source)
  • It's like he gets so tellement agite, so happy and flying that he is like an airplane going up and up into the stratosphere where the air is so thin that he can't fly no more and the only way is down.†   (source)
  • I wondered if his ears popped when he got that high in the stratosphere.†   (source)
  • Her face, somewhere up there in the stratosphere, was as stony and grim as a Mount Rushmore president's, surrounded by a hurricane of long dark hair.†   (source)
  • The best in the stratosphere.†   (source)
  • From the lonely heights of the stratosphere, Karellen looked down upon the world and the people that had been given into his reluctant keeping.†   (source)
  • At less than a thousand kilometres an hour, falling slowly down from the empty heights of the stratosphere, the ship moved out to the great plains and to its second rendezvous with history.†   (source)
  • That's supposed to happen in the stratosphere—or is it the interplanetary space?†   (source)
  • We shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere.†   (source)
  • Well, never mind about Ozymandias now being just trunkless legs; in his day the humble had to live in his shadow, and so do we live under shadow, with acts of faith in functioning of inventions, as up in the stratosphere, down in the subway, crossing bridges, going through tunnels, rising and falling in elevators where our safety is given in keeping.†   (source)
  • War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.†   (source)
  • …capable of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently…†   (source)
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