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demarcation
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    Behind the barricade of boxes that demarcated our end of the hallway, Vince was soundly asleep, so I quietly crossed over and rapped on the Borodins' door to check on them.†  (source)
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    The desk had become a point of division and demarcation.†  (source)
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    Moving warily, he scrambled back down the slope of the roof on his hands and knees past the line of demarcation where the fresh green Bird shingles gave way to the section of roof he had just finished clearing.†  (source)
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    The wall itself extended in both directions, curving around the hill below the villas' balconies, at once demarcation and protection.†  (source)
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    Off to the side, Corinthian pillars flattened into the wall demarcated three "chapels" which were nothing more than recesses, each with a rail for private prayer and a place to light candles.†  (source)
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    Demarcating the Nepal-Tibet border, towering more than 12,000 feet above the valleys at its base, Everest looms as a three-sided pyramid of gleaming ice and dark, striated rock.†  (source)
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    In the chaos of defeat, the demarcations between Germany and Austria had not faded, and each jealously guarded what remained to it.†  (source)
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    L. of G.'s Purport Not to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable masses (even to expose them,) But add, fuse, complete, extend—and celebrate the immortal and the good.†  (source)
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    "It would be curious to try to formulate the line of demarcation," said Dr. Ferris, in the tone of an idle academic remark.†  (source)
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    Nothing demarcated the infield from the outfield, and the lines were clearly not straight or perpendicular where they should have been, but it was a baseball field-of that there was no doubt.†  (source)
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    We'd removed half of the barricade but still kept most of it in place—an upturned coffee table and some boxes demarcating which end of the hallway other people weren't allowed into.†  (source)
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    Surrounded by the voracity of nature, Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula continued cultivating the oregano and the begonias and defended their world with demarcations of quicklime, building the last trenches in the age-old war between man and ant.†  (source)
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    but surely every dweller in the country must hope that the governments involved in its governance can devise institutions which will allow that partition to become a bit more like the net on a tennis court, a demarcation allowing for agile give-and-take, for encounter and contending, prefiguring a future where the vitality that flowed in the beginning from those bracing words "enemy" and "allies" might finally derive from a less binary and altogether less binding vocabulary.†  (source)
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