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  • I followed the stream of people already running in that direction, along the northern perimeter of the stacks.†   (source)
  • And at the perimeter of this boneyard lies one much larger skeleton: that of the moose he shot, and subsequently agonized over.†   (source)
  • They crawled on their stalk legs around the curved perimeters of the glass as if the world had shrunk to that jar.†   (source)
  • In the corner of his desk a word appeared and began marching around the perimeter of the desk.†   (source)
  • Then he led them around the perimeter of the clearing and picked a spot and set foot in the forest again.†   (source)
  • Minors were not allowed in the gambling area, so like moons orbiting the earth, we circled the perimeter of the casino, looking for my father's signature receding hairline.†   (source)
  • I wondered where the perimeter was.†   (source)
  • Alas, she and Boris had another experiment to perform—one that involved a bucket of water, a bicycle, and the perimeter of Red Square.†   (source)
  • The flickering perimeter floodlights make disturbing shadows of them, and Lale can't make out what they are saying.†   (source)
  • I had to go a long way around the police perimeter.†   (source)
  • This salt-free water trickles down and collects in a gully on the perimeter of the cone, from which it drains into a pouch.†   (source)
  • The section where old men used to fall asleep over the free newspapers had disappeared, replaced by a large oval table with computers dotted around the perimeter.†   (source)
  • Langdon had once walked the Louvre's entire perimeter, an astonishing three-mile journey.†   (source)
  • From up here, Tally could see the perimeter wire clearly, stretching around the buildings in an almost perfect square.†   (source)
  • That's when you put a chalk mark around the perimeter of the body to show the position you found it in.†   (source)
  • But then — when they had walked so far around the perimeter of the forest that the castle and the lake were out of sight — Harry heard something.†   (source)
  • All along its perimeter, sparks rise and ash falls and administrative documents flutter: utility plans, purchase orders, tax records.†   (source)
  • I wadded up blankets and uniforms from my departed crew-mates to serve as one edge of a planter box with the curved walls of the Hab being the rest of the perimeter.†   (source)
  • Movement on the perimeter surrounding them caught his attention, and he watched carefully what was happening with the large white pods.†   (source)
  • They kept us tucked away for a little while longer, searching the perimeter of the palace.†   (source)
  • She walked the perimeter.†   (source)
  • When they can't do that, they run up and down the dirt road behind our wall, the perimeter road.†   (source)
  • Emily and Maya stared at the old-school photo booth at the perimeter of Noel's yard and the woods.†   (source)
  • She walked around the perimeter of the block house and reentered through the front door.†   (source)
  • I didn't go far, just around the perimeter of the neat yard in a slow shuffle, watching the sky, clear now, a billion stars spread across it.†   (source)
  • Leper Lepellier was loping along outside my perimeter, not noticing the game, tagging along without reason, like a porpoise escorting a passing ship.†   (source)
  • It's strange to remember how we used to think, as if everything were available to us, as if there were no contingencies, no boundaries; as if we were free to shape and reshape forever the ever-expanding perimeters of our lives.†   (source)
  • I wait until the soldiers have spread out around the hospital's perimeter and the man named Metias has immersed himself in conversation with two of his men.†   (source)
  • The sergeant was also pulling out men for perimeter defense duties, and doing it with far more authority than the poor major.†   (source)
  • Get your food from the outside perimeter of the supermarket and try to avoid the middle aisles.†   (source)
  • I drove around the perimeter of Jefferson Park so we could avoid driving past our houses, just in case our parents had woken up and discovered us missing.†   (source)
  • Two squads will be deployed as perimeter patrols to protect this base.†   (source)
  • Establish a perimeter inside the Manor grounds.†   (source)
  • As she spoke, great spotlights raked the compound, missing them by inches and seeking the outer perimeter of wire fence and mine fields and the woods beyond, where Hannah thought she saw shadows chasing shadows into the dark trees.†   (source)
  • I follow him as we skirt the perimeter of the cove, being careful to avoid the marshland; it looks deceptively like grass, especially in the dark, but you can get sucked down almost knee deep before you realize the difference.†   (source)
  • The police have lit flares along the perimeter of the scene and are instructing cars in both directions to turn back, the road is closed.†   (source)
  • I open it and he shoots out into the yard and patrols as he does every morning, head up, trotting around the perimeter looking for anything suspicious.†   (source)
  • The Dunnes and the Elliotts walked along the perimeter of the crowd, Rand smiling and nodding like a visiting dignitary.†   (source)
  • They kept to the perimeter of the plain and continued north, following the Ramr River.†   (source)
  • But then a wink of sunlight on a crystal shooter caught Jack of Diamonds' eye: two Alyssian guards patrolling the perimeter of the headquarters.†   (source)
  • He now noticed that behind the circle of adults, others had emerged, spaced equally around the entire perimeter.†   (source)
  • After we ate and did drugs, we would guard the perimeter while the adults rested for a bit.†   (source)
  • The spaceport had been a full nine klicks from the city when he lived in Keats; now shacks, tents, and mud streets surrounded the landing field's perimeter.†   (source)
  • Now he paced the perimeter of the box and looked forlornly up at me.†   (source)
  • The adults sat on cushions around the perimeter of the room, and the chatter was noisy.†   (source)
  • The rest of me stood in the shadows around the perimeter inside the temple itself, and the priests returned to their prayers, their backs to the wide and inviting entrance.†   (source)
  • The brilliant white stakes that marked the perimeters of buildings imparted to the land the look of a Civil War burial ground.†   (source)
  • There will be regular patrols round the perimeter of the building to ensure that civilians do not tarry overlong in conversation with the prisoners.†   (source)
  • Finding a good spot, I lay in the prone position while my partner protected the perimeter around me.†   (source)
  • The old man had served in the navy during one of the larger wars and he had respect for the uniform, and for these young men who had established a perimeter around his property, as he watched, standing on the street with their commanding officer.†   (source)
  • The Iraqis had set up a defensive perimeter outside the refinery.†   (source)
  • I could feel the awe of the audience as she seemed to founder in the spotlight, the dark forest rising on the perimeter, so that she seemed to be lost in the trees.†   (source)
  • Who knows what Valentine's got patrolling his perimeter?†   (source)
  • The coaches had taken one look at him and told him he wasn't a perimeter player—that he wasn't Michael Jordan.†   (source)
  • The deck was slick with rain and heaving up and down, a black hole surrounded by perimeter lights.†   (source)
  • And more red lights come up on the windshield: the perimeter security of the Deliverator's vehicle has been breached.†   (source)
  • Run the western perimeter.†   (source)
  • All around the perimeter.†   (source)
  • The provost of Georgia Perimeter College, a community college just outside the city limits of Clarkston, agreed to provide an auditorium and to act as a moderator.†   (source)
  • A chain-link fence rings the perimeter.†   (source)
  • For instance, Coach Mick would make one guy of a particular partnership push a forty-five-pound plate, flat on the floor, around the perimeter of our weight room.†   (source)
  • In that way they kept the plague restricted to the perimeter of the town.†   (source)
  • Jessica sent herself through the quick sense-clearing regimen, began a methodical inspection of the room's perimeter.†   (source)
  • "Abortion," Lemry says, pacing the perimeter of the room.†   (source)
  • A third of its perimeter is coastline.†   (source)
  • When the electricity stabilized again, a shadow oozed from the dark perimeter of the amphitheater.†   (source)
  • It was a beautiful spring day, the air soft and warm, dogwoods in bloom all around the perimeter of the garden.†   (source)
  • Every PSF officer that walked the perimeter of the electric fence carried an M16 rifle, and I was sure every camp controller that watched us from high up on the Tower had one within reach, too.†   (source)
  • He was clutching his attache case as usual and I could see he was strolling slowly along the path that runs the outer perimeter of the lawn, deeply absorbed in thought.†   (source)
  • Takahashi ran his finger around the perimeter of his coffee cup.†   (source)
  • Now with Rosina leading us, we pushed him through the trees on the perimeter trail, just inside of Missing's wall, until we reached the Drowning Soil.†   (source)
  • Monica was most likely following her own path, either oblivious or deeply emotionally invested, depending on what you believed, while Wes worked the perimeter, always keeping an eye on everything.†   (source)
  • Instead, he concentrated on the adults who were crowding the perimeter of the ride.†   (source)
  • They swerve and cross the length of the field, tour its perimeter, and then swing back around.†   (source)
  • A stone wall with guardsmen and iron gates runs the perimeter.†   (source)
  • He's down on Eighth Avenue now wandering the perimeter of the ballpark, looking for a sign that someone's still alive.†   (source)
  • Our little one was quick, but he has made a poor choice, indeed.... Max heard her nails dragging along the fort's walls as she slowly circled its perimeter.†   (source)
  • The first watch had taken up their stations around the perimeter of the camp.†   (source)
  • The truck that patrolled the prison perimeter screeched to a halt between us.†   (source)
  • American warships and submarines are forming a defensive perimeter around Cuba, preparing to stop and search the twenty-five Soviet ships currently sailing toward that defiant island.†   (source)
  • They operated every night, but I never saw them because I went to bed so early and our block was well in from the perimeter.†   (source)
  • "The Green Knights are compelled to service," Bert said as they followed the knight's lead and began walking counterclockwise around the perimeter of the island.†   (source)
  • So that the bathhouse, then, is at the perimeter of the pool, on the Westcott side?†   (source)
  • He dug out the receipt, handed it to her, and walked back to the cur-taro, as much now to avoid her eyes as to check the perimeter again.†   (source)
  • The Pacific Ocean thundered against its westernmost perimeter.†   (source)
  • Automatically, I did a perimeter sweep, a 360 around us to pick up signs of trouble.†   (source)
  • Mortenson passed out the five shovels and he and fifty other men took turns digging steadily all afternoon until they had hollowed out a trench, three feet wide and three feet deep, around the school's perimeter.†   (source)
  • She hurried back to the still-smoking wreck, walking around the perimeter as she searched for the safest way to get back inside.†   (source)
  • He stepped past the bed and went to the window and pulled aside the curtains to look down at the perimeter road.†   (source)
  • He staggered up and made his drunken way to the perimeter of the circle.†   (source)
  • Later, when we were able to go into the courtyard to serve ourselves, I would go out into the courtyard and jog around the perimeter until breakfast arrived.†   (source)
  • He had to assume that there was a fourth or a fifth, or even a sixth animal patrolling the perimeters of Swayne's grounds.†   (source)
  • txfeXfJbo The first shift at Fundidora began at six in the morning when roosters still crowed on the farms that ringed its eastern perimeter.†   (source)
  • Now it's commandeered for a tented barracks; soldiers with machine guns patrol the perimeter.†   (source)
  • Uniforms in the best dress blues flanked the perimeter for a full three blocks on Fifth.†   (source)
  • Again and again, on the perimeter of sleep, he was visited by sudden vivid images, of machete and flesh, and by those dreams in which, sooner or later, he had to run but couldn't move.†   (source)
  • After they were inserted, two assaulters and Cairo, the combat assault dog, did a sweep of the perimeter.†   (source)
  • He eavesdropped along the perimeter of the dancing.†   (source)
  • Each of my brothers-in-law had his own room that sat on the perimeter of the main room.†   (source)
  • Other teams were scattered around the perimeter and glanced at the newcomers.†   (source)
  • There were lean-tos around the perimeter of the corral fence.†   (source)
  • The barbarians had finished setting up their encampment shortly before Drizzt reached its outer perimeter.†   (source)
  • Uphill and at least a hundred yards to the east, the woman fled under the generously spreading boughs of stone pines clustered along the perimeter of the burial grounds, across shaded grass only lightly dappled with sunshine.†   (source)
  • Then there are the smart ones who sit on the ground in the shade of the walkway that runs around the perimeter.†   (source)
  • No perimeter guard and yet the scene was barely fourteen hours old.†   (source)
  • Bampa had willed the land to his grandchildren but my father, whenever he needed to, would sell or give away sections of land so that houses were gradually built up along the perimeter of the estate.†   (source)
  • There is too much buffer of fine landscaping and natural vegetation, of whitewashed horse fence and antiqued stone walls, that it's rare to see anyone outside, much less two people on the perimeter of a property, talking or socializing.†   (source)
  • Heidi was nowhere near him—she was racing around the perimeter with her usual exuberance—but Stem whistled and she came bounding up the porch steps.†   (source)
  • We lapped the parade ground twice, circled the armory, passed the yacht basin, crossed the baseball field, and halted finally at the farthest perimeter of the campus by the edge of the salt marsh, which separated the grounds of the Institute from the Ashley River.†   (source)
  • It plunges pretty sharply right beyond that section of the perimeter.†   (source)
  • I hurried—truly raced—outside into the dusk and walked distractedly around the perimeter of the park.†   (source)
  • He slept uneasily unless he knew all was well around his perimeter.†   (source)
  • He felt the cool perimeter of the projection globe behind him.†   (source)
  • Prunella Van Koetzie skirmished lightly on her horse on the perimeter of the column, wearing a white kappie over her dainty sweat-pearled face and close clustering ringlets.†   (source)
  • With the perimeter power out, all the security-card locks were disarmed.†   (source)
  • The males, he saw, were arranged defensively at the perimeter of the group.†   (source)
  • There were four others providing perimeter security.†   (source)
  • He noted the four perimeter guys close in.†   (source)
  • Yeah, but only power on the perimeter.†   (source)
  • After that episode, the visitor lodge had been reworked with heavy barred gates, a high perimeter fence, and tempered-glass windows.†   (source)
  • We have fifty miles of twelve-foot-high fencing, including twenty-two miles around the perimeter of the island.†   (source)
  • The visitor center and the Safari Lodge were both secure, and the northern perimeter seemed to be clear of dinosaurs.†   (source)
  • Around the perimeter is a shallow border of refuse where the shops stood.†   (source)
  • After conclave is sealed, I could pull all except a few of my perimeter guards and begin a search.†   (source)
  • I'll see about setting some new traps around the perimeter?'†   (source)
  • He does a little more looking around, checking out the perimeter of the shantytown.†   (source)
  • We ran down the inside perimeter of the field.†   (source)
  • Along the perimeter there were quick bursts of gunfire.†   (source)
  • I sent them to inspect our perimeter lest the Fremen attack under cover of the sand.†   (source)
  • I have requisitioned more perimeter guards.†   (source)
  • I ducked behind the four-foot perimeter wall.†   (source)
  • From there, they can see the forest beyond the perimeter fence.†   (source)
  • Loping through the dusky village, he searched for Sloan along the inner perimeter of the tree wall.†   (source)
  • The next day they walked the perimeter of the lake.†   (source)
  • I walked around the perimeter of the room, thinking over May's words.†   (source)
  • Green chemlights, glow sticks, decorated the outer perimeter.†   (source)
  • It's just a six-meter perimeter and a ceiling.†   (source)
  • Now start acting like a professional or get back to the perimeter!†   (source)
  • Hedging his bets, he ordered half of his men back to the Louvre perimeter.†   (source)
  • It's supposed to work reasonably well outside their helo perimeter.†   (source)
  • I also stood at the perimeter of the house, nearly on the street, and watched.†   (source)
  • My Hunters are holding a perimeter around the mansion, but we'll be overrun any minute.†   (source)
  • The Urgals eyed Eragon suspiciously and formed a circle around the perimeter of the room.†   (source)
  • Circling the perimeter of the fountain, he positioned himself directly opposite the van.†   (source)
  • I wander around the perimeter for a while.†   (source)
  • They lined the perimeter of the room, blocking the exits.†   (source)
  • Seth looped back toward the main perimeter.†   (source)
  • The Fugees ran laps around the perimeter to warm up, Kanue in the lead.†   (source)
  • He continued around the perimeter to the next window.†   (source)
  • Away to the east where the night was rising, the perimeter line was under heavy artillery fire.†   (source)
  • Dark forms of FORCE: Marines could be seen patrolling just within the perimeter.†   (source)
  • Saeed and Nadia's worker camp was bounded by a perimeter fence.†   (source)
  • Running along the perimeter of where the closet met the wall was an elegant molding.†   (source)
  • the perimeter of the heart of the forest whose bark had been practically shredded.†   (source)
  • Leah was on the far western rim of the perimeter.†   (source)
  • There was no letup along the defense perimeter.†   (source)
  • Afterward, he crossed the perimeter to Lee Strunk's foxhole.†   (source)
  • Vittoria breathed deeply as she continued her search, moving around the perimeter.†   (source)
  • Essay and Baboo were snooping along the perimeter of the barn.†   (source)
  • We've been casing the perimeter in hopes of finding the princess," the rook explained to Dodge.†   (source)
  • They crossed the Retrieval perimeter to the avenue.†   (source)
  • If you need me, I'll be within the perimeter.†   (source)
  • "Ky," Uncle Enzo says, "anything interesting happening on our perimeter?"†   (source)
  • I won't have to drive the perimeter at all.†   (source)
  • The Fugees kept fighting, firing a series of quick shots from around the perimeter of the box.†   (source)
  • We went outside and started checking the perimeter of the oil fields.†   (source)
  • For a while I could hear them racing up and down the perimeter road in the mud, then they were gone.†   (source)
  • Now that the guards are leaving the perimeter, we can get out of here.†   (source)
  • Other Delta guys formed a perimeter around the building.†   (source)
  • We set up a two-block perimeter, with a command tent at the Empire State Building.†   (source)
  • Root lined up the insertion team at the perimeter.†   (source)
  • "The chopper is approaching the perimeter of the airport," Ky says.†   (source)
  • Well, nobody on the perimeter saw her leave either.†   (source)
  • They split up and spread out along the piazza perimeter, quietly unloading men at select points.†   (source)
  • But the perimeter cuts through the river in a few places, so we stay pretty clean, thanks.†   (source)
  • Egyptian peacekeepers guarded the outer perimeter.†   (source)
  • And he vaulted down into the mud of the perimeter road.†   (source)
  • Coils of chain link lay heaped around the perimeter like petrified snakes.†   (source)
  • The dot moved outside the perimeter of the building.†   (source)
  • I mean, with her here, we can push the perimeter out farther.†   (source)
  • Like a shark patrolling a moonlit bay, the vehicle circled the perimeter of the piazza.†   (source)
  • Once we were all together, we set our perimeter.†   (source)
  • The ground was soft by the time-stop perimeter.†   (source)
  • Westminster Abbey was a tangled warren of mausoleums, perimeter chambers, and walk-in burial niches.†   (source)
  • Guys stepped out of their vehicles and set up a perimeter.†   (source)
  • He sensed demons gathering on the perimeter of his bliss, pounding to shatter his rapture.†   (source)
  • I hadn't realized he'd been paying much attention to us as he ran the perimeter.†   (source)
  • Will Sam be hunting for us outside of the perimeter you've created?†   (source)
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