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  • "If you add an s to this word, right where this tear in the paper is, you get 'Egress.'"  (source)
  • There was nowhere to move the car, however, as the only route of egress was now a foaming, full-blown river.  (source)
  • The egress order had been determined years earlier.  (source)
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  • Brain Waves ping-ponging inside my skull, no hope of sleep or easy egress to a plane where memory could not intrude, I bent my head, submitting to shame.  (source)
    egress = exit
  • He hastily thrust the uniform into a suitcase in an empty compartment, and a few minutes later, dressed in ordinary clothes, he left the train just before it started off, using the same means for egress-the door near the dining-car.  (source)
  • When she had laid the supper-cloth, the bridge was lowered to give her means of egress, and she withdrew for the night.  (source)
  • They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of...  (source)
  • And if there's no ingress or egress—no valve through which may be vented the various pressures that accrue naturally in a closed temporal system—" She made a little pool!†  (source)
    egress = exit (departure from)
  • He saw everything with perfect clarity, three groups all hellbent for Misery in the crenellated passages behind the idol's forehead, two wanting to kill her, the third, consisting of Ian, Geoffrey, and Hezekiah, trying to save her ....while below, the village of the Bourkas burned and the survivors massed at the one point of egress, the idol's left ear, to massacre anyone who happened to stagger out alive.†  (source)
  • Every FORCE:space shuttle carried some sort of atmospheric egress device-it was a custom dating back almost eight centuries to when the entire realm of space flight consisted only of tentative excursions just above the skin of Old Earth's atmosphere.†  (source)
  • Had he known that he was about to enter a tunnel whose only egress was his own annihilation, would he have turned away?†  (source)
  • He did require a means of secret egress, should he ever be trapped by his enemies, but that door does not connect with any other passages.†  (source)
  • Bus service was erratic and seemed to go nowhere, but the Federal Government had forced a highway or two through the swamps, thus giving the citizens an opportunity for free egress.†  (source)
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