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centripetal
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  • Out of this it happened that the centrifugal tendency imparted by weariness of the world was counteracted by the centripetal influence of his love for his stepdaughter.†   (source)
  • POLARITY,[97] or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female; in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals; in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole and diastole[98] of the heart; in the undulations of fluids, and of sound; in the centrifugal and centripetal gravity; in electricity, galvanism, and chemical affinity.†   (source)
  • Attractive women of nineteen and of twenty-nine are alike in their breezy confidence; on the contrary, the exigent womb of the twenties does not pull the outside world centripetally around itself.†   (source)
  • How did the centripetal remainer afford egress to the centrifugal departer?†   (source)
  • What sound accompanied the union of their tangent, the disunion of their (respectively) centrifugal and centripetal hands?†   (source)
  • One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang I turn and talk like
    man leaving charges before a journey.†   (source)
  • You unseen force, centripetal, centrifugal, through space's spread,
    Rapport of sun, moon, earth, and all the constellations,
    What are the messages by you from distant stars to us?†   (source)
  • Of the interminable sisters,
    Of the ceaseless cotillons of sisters,
    Of the centripetal and centrifugal sisters, the elder and younger sisters,
    The beautiful sister we know dances on with the rest.†   (source)
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