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  • It only peripherally hit him then that without thinking he'd recognized the direction and the time.†   (source)
  • Seiler was already involved in the case peripherally, having been retained by Williams in his defense against the $10 million civil suit brought by Hansford's mother.†   (source)
  • With this closer, peripheral examination, I suddenly wondered if the girl was a Native American.†   (source)
  • The problem is with his peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • Cecilia's left hand was cupped above her cheek, presumably to exclude him from her peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • He has to shoot one pigoon before he reaches the peripheral wall: it was just having a good stare, but he was certain it was a scout, it would have told the others.†   (source)
  • "It's called —" he screwed up his face in an effort to get the words out—"peripheral neuropathy" (pronounced, by him, as "peripheral neuropathy").†   (source)
  • I try to keep my eyes locked on the evaluators, but there it is in my peripheral vision, grinning at me: that damn table.†   (source)
  • I concentrate with everything I have, and yet in my peripheral vision I can see that Henri is smiling proudly, and that Sam is, too.†   (source)
  • Lucy wasn't with us for long, so for us she's just a peripheral figure in our memory of Hailsham.†   (source)
  • The lookiloo appears again in my peripheral.†   (source)
  • Genevieve smashed the glass with her scepter and turned to face Redd, unable to believe it when, in her peripheral vision, she saw The Cat, on the floor with a gaping hole in his chest, open his eyes.†   (source)
  • I was about to agree with her when I noticed something in my peripheral vision, something up ahead that wasn't quite right.†   (source)
  • I see him frown out of my peripheral vision as I exit.†   (source)
  • I stared straight ahead as I passed the Volvo, but from a peripheral peek, I would swear I saw him laughing.†   (source)
  • Helen, once a peripheral figure in these discussions, became the epicenter, instigator, and protagonist.†   (source)
  • The cinema they remembered so fondly had been replaced by a shopping arcade for computers and electronic peripherals.†   (source)
  • In Y.T.'s peripheral vision she sees a brief flash, hears a clunking noise.†   (source)
  • In common with other hemispherectomies, she has limited peripheral vision on one side because the Visual cortex is bilateral—the one side controls vision to the other side.†   (source)
  • Condon spent a year and a half on that short segment of film, until, finally, in his peripheral vision, he saw what he had always sensed was there: "the wife turning her head exactly as the husband's hands came up.†   (source)
  • I'd lost my peripheral vision, my ears were ringing, my pulse was pounding.†   (source)
  • One brief message of somewhat peripheral interest was sent at 10:00 p.m. The PGP encryption programme (rattle, rattle) was a joke for anyone who was already inside his computer and could read the message in plain text: Berger has stopped arguing about the ads.†   (source)
  • Darkness crowds the edges of my peripheral vision, but I clutch the lane rope and suck air like an industrial-strength shop vac.†   (source)
  • The ball sailed toward the second baseman, spinning white somewhere in my peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • Lopsang jangbu, Fischer's sirdar, showed up bearing a back-wrenching eightypound load, some thirty pounds of which consisted of a satellite telephone and its peripheral hardware: Sandy Pittman was intending to file Internet dispatches from 26,000 feet.†   (source)
  • Stand at the edges of windows with my back to the wall, swivel my head to look peripherally into rooms.†   (source)
  • He could see shadows and detect movement peripherally, but beyond that the eye was essentially blind.†   (source)
  • Rather, we single out the West because, even though we're peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.†   (source)
  • I could see him in my peripheral vision; he was gnawing on the cuff of his shirt, looking irritated.†   (source)
  • Our peripheral existence, however, was something we had learned to deal with—probably because it was abstract.†   (source)
  • Like, on the phone, he'd say: "Peripheral.†   (source)
  • With them, Yarbog could butt and gore Roran with impunity, and they would also protect the sides of Yarbog's head from any blows Roran could deliver with his bare hands, although they limited the Urgal's peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • Stars explode in my peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • Thibault was dazed; his peripheral vision had gone black, and everything else was blurry.†   (source)
  • But again, we didn't know about the peripheral deaths through radiation poisoning.†   (source)
  • A heavy ball the size of a cantaloupe whizzed toward his head; he glimpsed it in his peripheral vision and ducked just in time.†   (source)
  • In addition to their lungs, they have peripheral air sacs along each side.†   (source)
  • In his peripheral vision, Tom saw that thousands of the black creatures were lining the stark trees behind him.†   (source)
  • By observing where enemy machine-gun bullets were landing and kicking up ash, a Marine could roughly judge the peripheral limits of a shooter's range: his capacity to swivel the gun left and right from inside his cave or blockhouse.†   (source)
  • Instead, he pretended that he wasn't scared out of his mind and scanned the room with his peripheral vision for anything that could be used as a weapon.†   (source)
  • The gunslinger stood with stolid indifference, only peripherally aware of the faltering piano, the slowing of the card game, the sidelong glances of the barflies.†   (source)
  • Why not pick one you're not particularly fond of so I might peripherally allude to him-if it's necessary.†   (source)
  • I knew the guesthouse was a peripheral assignment; I'd be lying if I told you for a split second I didn't wish I was going to be part of the team that was tasked with going to the roof of the main building, called Al.†   (source)
  • His peripheral vision had fled and his heart was running away with him when he raised his leg and kicked the glass with the heel of his boot.†   (source)
  • Now, though, the demon scoured the peripheral clues beyond Drizzt's black skin, noting the items he carried and the area he had staked out for their meeting.†   (source)
  • Peripherally, he saw that the camper truck had turned off the street at the end of the block.†   (source)
  • I take in everything I can with my peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • He lowered his chin, turned his head forty-five degrees to the left, and deployed his peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • I saw him in my peripheral vision as I cleared the truck.†   (source)
  • Before Amanda and I stopped being peripheral semi-friends, I remember sleeping over at her house and talking to her older brothers.†   (source)
  • I followed his progress peripherally.†   (source)
  • From the battle of Austerlitz until the difficulties of 1848, the Tristero drifted on, deprived of nearly all the noble patronage that had sustained them: now reduced to handling anarchist correspondence; only peripherally engaged—in Germany with the ill-fated Frankfurt Assembly, in Buda-Pesth at the barricades, perhaps even among the watchmakers of the Jura, preparing them for the coming of M. Bakunin.†   (source)
  • On the theory (my own, and not my employers) that my time should be spent observing living wolves, I had deliberately neglected the innumerable peripheral studies which had been ordained for me by Ottawa.†   (source)
  • A friend of mine having peripheral connections with the Mafia, it was, laughed at me, all starry in my eyes and just up from the university and into the federal service.†   (source)
  • It would perhaps have been faintly comic had not his misplaced jealousy contained seeds of the violent, and worse ... Earlier there was a bizarre, peripheral tragedy affecting Sophie which should be recounted here if only because of the way in which it elaborates all the foregoing.†   (source)
  • disk drives and printers are important peripherals
  • energy is far from a peripheral issue in the economy
  • And then a small motion in my peripheral vision made me jump.†   (source)
  • I keep Tobias in my peripheral vision, not wanting to stray too far from him.†   (source)
  • Edgar cautiously let his eyes drift over until the old farmer registered in his peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • When they reached the peripheral wall, there was another one, a woman.†   (source)
  • In his peripheral vision he saw two girls walking toward him, their weapons hidden away somewhere.†   (source)
  • He grinned cockily while still tracking Jacob's every twitch with his peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • After I'm done, as I am leaving, I think I see a shifting shadow, a flicker in my peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • They told me that you might lose your peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • I'm at the kitchen table separating the peripheral wiring when Dell Duke's cell phone barks.†   (source)
  • Nothing abnormal in my peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • I scanned the screen in my peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • Thomas sucked in huge gulps of air and could see the others battling in his peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • Catherine shielded her eyes and turned her head slightly, which widened her peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • In my peripheral vision, I saw his hand come up, and I cringed into the wall.†   (source)
  • In my peripheral vision, I saw Fang clap both hands hard against an Eraser's furry ears.†   (source)
  • He had not had time to deal with all the peripheral information in Svensson's email and notes.†   (source)
  • In his peripheral vision, Colin could see her smiling at him.†   (source)
  • Even new tires can't help my peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • Certainly, he had helped in the attempt to murder and bury her, but he seemed peripheral.†   (source)
  • Spots appeared before his eyes, teasing lights that danced in his peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • Sighing, Max simply sat still for a moment until something moved within his peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • The poles clipped by, blurring in the riders' peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • In his peripheral vision, Max saw the policeman straighten and stare at them.†   (source)
  • Then something moved in Max's peripheral vision and he caught his breath.†   (source)
  • With his peripheral vision, Vlad saw Jasik, and in a second his plan was formed.†   (source)
  • I'm not looking directly at him, but I can see him in my peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • He was vaguely aware of figures moving in the background and his peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • "He can do it, too," Thomas answered, not taking his eyes off the new kid, seeing the others only in his peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • In short, a lot of things were going pretty well when I saw in my peripheral vision a slithering in the water beside Margo.†   (source)
  • Edward's face was the most important thing, but my peripheral vision catalogued everything else, just in case.†   (source)
  • My view of the classroom shrank from the limits of my peripheral vision to a small thumbnail window in the lower right of my display, allowing me to monitor what was in front of my avatar.†   (source)
  • Hiro keeps getting flashes of it in his peripheral vision, keeps glancing over to track down its source.†   (source)
  • I stand next to the train tracks in a group that stretches as far as I can see with my peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • And I was just about to say something when, in my peripheral vision, I saw a large individual running toward us at a full sprint.†   (source)
  • The laser that kept jabbing Hiro in the eye was shot out of this guy's computer, from a peripheral device that sits above his goggles in the middle of his forehead.†   (source)
  • On each table there was a different classic home computer or videogame system, accompanied by tiered racks that appeared to hold a complete collection of its peripherals, controllers, software, and games.†   (source)
  • Emmett moved into my peripheral vision, his teeth bared while his eyes darted toward the window, anticipating an attack.†   (source)
  • So I lifted my head, and looked at Kristy, seeing Bert watching me, Wes and Monica's faces in my peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • Our temperature scans indicate that he is about ninety-five degrees, which is a little on the cool side, but probably attributable to peripheral vasoconstriction in the night desert air.†   (source)
  • Sophie pushed through the door, taking two big strides until she was right in front of me, and the room seemed to shrink-Will, Emily, everyone else disappearing from my peripheral vision-until it was just her narrowed eyes, her finger still jabbing, so much anger and fury.†   (source)
  • His peripheral vision showed more trees coming his way, the Berg dipping lower now so that there'd be no chance of his making it through.†   (source)
  • I am peripheral.†   (source)
  • Maybe that was because, when I didn't look directly at him, his shape seemed to shiver and change in my peripheral vision.†   (source)
  • A peripheral part of his mind and consciousness had been with them and experienced firsthand the tumbling blur of sky and sea, the awful glimpse of rocks and ocean rushing up to meet them.†   (source)
  • Look peripherally into rooms, enter unannounced, reduce him to trembling, gut-shoot him maximally three times, get off at the river road, shut the garage door.†   (source)
  • We were skeptical about Adam because you have to use your peripheral vision a lot; you have to clear corners, be aware of movement to alert you to threats.†   (source)
  • His opinion was that the investigation, regardless of the new—peripheral, he called it—information, had to stay focused on Salander.†   (source)
  • The Analysis WITH THE NEW PRESSURES OF TIME, THE REsults of spectrometry and amino-acid analysis, previously of peripheral interest, suddenly became matters of major concern.†   (source)
  • A movement flashed in my peripheral vision—I turned and spotted Billy looking at me through the front window with a confused expression.†   (source)
  • In his peripheral vision, he saw his adversary do likewise, and a sudden, horrific thought occurred to him.†   (source)
  • In my peripheral vision, I saw his face turn, felt his eyes boring into me, but I did not look over to meet his gaze.†   (source)
  • But he also sat in on a planning meeting for a training exercise, joined a platoon at the firing range, and absorbed the peripheral chatter that gave shape and purpose to the job.†   (source)
  • Drive past the scene several times, approach the motel on foot, swivel my head to look peripherally into rooms, locate Mr. Gray under his real name, enter unannounced, gain his confidence, advance gradually, reduce him to trembling, wait for an unguarded moment, take out the .25-caliber Zumwalt automatic, fire three bullets into his viscera for maximum slowness, depth and intensity of pain, wipe the weapon clear of prints, place the weapon i†   (source)
  • In the entire history of Naval Special Warfare Development Group, nobody had ever attempted, much less passed, the stringent Green Team qualifications with good vision in only one eye—especially Close Quarters Battle (CQB), where peripheral vision and split-second reaction times are critical.†   (source)
  • The taste of the fruits of temporal knowledge draws the concentration of the spirit away from the center of the eon to the peripheral crisis of the moment.†   (source)
  • It wasn't the dabble of the foot in the water, or even the steady deep pull of the undertow or the peripheral drag of the whirlpool.†   (source)
  • The myths do not deny this agony (the crucifixion); they reveal within, behind, and around it essential peace (the heavenly rose).4' The shift of perspective from the repose of the central Cause to the turbulation of the peripheral effects is represented in the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.†   (source)
  • Among lower animals there is no differentiation whatever between central and peripheral—they smell and taste with their skin.†   (source)
  • I was also too deeply engrossed in myself to pay attention to peripheral people like Herb.†   (source)
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