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meridian
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  • Glen Papineau staggered away, navigating by meridians of heat.†  (source)
  • In North America, grid was parallels 35, 40, 45, 50 degrees north crossed by meridians 110, 115, 120 west, twelve targets.†  (source)
  • Parallel meridians rudely pecked into the glass, surround these footpads' goblets.†  (source)
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  • Isaac lived in a small ranch house in Meridian Hills next to this fancy private school.†  (source)
  • Had the dwelling stood in an ordinary road, two persons setting out, one in each direction, might have made sure of overtaking her; but it was a hopeless task to seek for anybody on a heath in the dark, the practicable directions for flight across it from any point being as numerous as the meridians radiating from the pole.†  (source)
    meridians = imaginary lines between the north and south pole that are used to establish position (longitude)
  • The crown/meridian pressure point was one he had used countless times.†  (source)
  • "Sir," he answered me, "I have chronometers variously set to the meridians of Paris, Greenwich, and Washington, D.C. But in your honor, I'll use the one for Paris."†  (source)
  • Dill would be leaving for Meridian tomorrow; today he was off with Jem at Barker's Eddy.†  (source)
  • Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.†  (source)
  • Berta in Meridian and she living at ease oh-ah.†  (source)
  • "The rogue told me a lot of stories," repeated Passepartout, "about the meridians, the sun, and the moon!"  (source)
  • Fremen mark the observance according to the ninth meridian-crossing cycle of the first moon.†  (source)
  • He only asked for water—fresh water—something to wipe the brine off; that done, he put on dry clothes, lighted his pipe, and leaning against the bulwarks, and mildly eyeing those around him, seemed to be saying to himself—"It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians.†  (source)
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Has too, he lives in Meridian.  (source)
Meridian = a name of a place
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