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  • Only at the very periphery of the simulator did the M.D. field weaken.†  (source)
  • Such things could be examined only in the periphery of her mind.†  (source)
  • Chuck stood for a few moments on the periphery and then waded in, dragging me along behind him.†  (source)
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  • One caught sight of him at the periphery of one's vision, if one caught sight of him at all.†  (source)
  • Puller kept scanning ahead and on the peripheries.†  (source)
  • At first, he was going to answer that no one did, but then he noticed the paint cans, the drop sheets, and the growing pile of newspapers in the periphery of his vision.†  (source)
  • Keeping to the peripheries, never saying a word, he'd hear militiamen tell the refugees that the RPF, that army of Tutsi cockroaches from Uganda, was moving close, slaughtering Hutus.†  (source)
  • Langdon felt like a ship on the periphery of a storm ....tossed but detached.†  (source)
  • These wells, thrusting downward some three hundred feet, still dot the township, and there were seven around the peripheries of our farm.†  (source)
  • After that, he was in my dreams nearly every night, but always on the periphery, never within reach.†  (source)
  • It was important, however, not to provoke it; once this lazy creature moved from the peripheries to the center, then the knifing pains would obliterate all thought, and there would be no chance of dining with Leon and the family tonight.†  (source)
  • If I stood still for too long, I found myself on the periphery again.†  (source)
  • She hovered on the peripheries, speaking to no one, always smoking, raising the cigarette to her lips with a rapid, hungry movement, and pulling it away in agitated disgust.†  (source)
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