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periphery
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  • 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)
  • The man with the scars came sprinting toward her from the periphery, pushing her out of the way just as The Cat landed and smashed the altar with a downward swing of his thigh-sized arms.†   (source)
  • Around the periphery of the conservatory area stood marble-topped tables on intricately beautiful wrought-iron legs.†   (source)
  • Only at the very periphery of the simulator did the M.D. field weaken.†   (source)
  • Aunt Carol is standing at the field's periphery with my uncle, Grace, and Jenny, talking to Mrs. Springer, my history teacher.†   (source)
  • When we'd returned for junior year, Grace had found out she had a shot at making head cheerleader— a difficult feat since she'd always hovered in the periphery of popular in that crowd.†   (source)
  • I helped him construct a sturdy stick barricade around the periphery so the jungle animals and village goats would not come in and wreck our tender vegetables when they came.†   (source)
  • He was her yoga buddy, on the periphery of her life.†   (source)
  • To my knowledge, no human operator has ever penetrated Core periphery.†   (source)
  • After that, he was in my dreams nearly every night, but always on the periphery, never within reach.†   (source)
  • So he wanders back out toward the periphery.†   (source)
  • The town was an odd melting-pot of agriculture and industry located on the periphery of the southern California boom, a place that felt out on the edge.†   (source)
  • Velutha put Rahel down, and she stood forlornly at the edge of the driveway, on the periphery of the Play, a Gnap looming large and nasty on her horizon.†   (source)
  • Sometimes they saw rough-looking groups of men and Saeed and Nadia were careful to keep their distance, and by evening they were always sure to sleep at the periphery of one of the big migrant camps, of which there were many, and to which anyone might belong, joining or leaving as they saw fit.†   (source)
  • She who had been skimming along on life's turning but never-changing periphery had to be ready to be a "buddy" by day and maybe by night.†   (source)
  • On the periphery, there were a pair of competing food sellers and a couple of men who had set up games of Zo—it involved a board and a thing that looked like a Victorian teapot, for shaking dice.†   (source)
  • Nico and his two captives, Don and Vitellius, stood on the periphery.†   (source)
  • The cats, for example: the two thin gray toms who appeared with every twilight and prowled the Square, stopping to examine the cars parked around its periphery-behavior puzzling to him until Mrs. Meier explained that the cats were hunting for dead birds caught in the vehicles' engine grilles.†   (source)
  • My eyesight starts to return, from the outside in so that I find myself turning my head to try to catch things in the periphery.†   (source)
  • She was surrounded by impenetrable darkness, broken only by an odd flickering at the periphery of her vision, and the sound of someone talking.†   (source)
  • In my periphery I saw Dad lean forward, listening to his son.†   (source)
  • I could see the roof of the doublewide over to my right, the road to my left, but the garden seemed thick enough to have pushed them back even farther on the periphery, as if once you entered it moved in to surround you, crowding up close to hold you there.†   (source)
  • She jammed down the accelerator and let up the clutch, slowly, agonizingly, not wanting to stall the engine, conscious of Miro at the periphery of her vision and aware, too, that the children were stirring.†   (source)
  • A swift movement at the periphery of his vision caught Eragon's attention.†   (source)
  • They built their castles on the periphery.†   (source)
  • Puller kept scanning ahead and on the peripheries.†   (source)
  • Around the periphery of a great square were shops selling every implement he could imagine related to the erection and destruction of buildings.†   (source)
  • So Lorenzo hovered on the periphery, cleaning the occasional tool and watching closely as Jose, his older brother, helped.†   (source)
  • A dozen isolated individuals on the periphery: sentries.†   (source)
  • For a long time he had stood on the periphery of the gathering, his hands clasped, his large, dark eyes very still.†   (source)
  • They went snooping into his eyes and ears with tiny beams of light, assaulted his legs and feet with rubber hammers and vibrating forks, drew blood from his veins, held anything handy up for him to see on the periphery of his vision.†   (source)
  • Yeah, why's that so surprising?" he chuckles, as he spots the slim black boy shuffling slowly around the periphery.†   (source)
  • For so long they have been on his skin and on the edge of his sheets, scurrying to the periphery of his vision when he turns to look at them.†   (source)
  • Ari hung back on the periphery.†   (source)
  • But even as a periphery character, Roarke sells news.†   (source)
  • The name Zala had come up on four occasions in the material that Mia had gathered over the last two years, but always on the periphery, always eerily elusive.†   (source)
  • Joe was frightened by the barely throttled violence of his reaction: teeth clenched, arteries throbbing in neck and temples, field of vision abruptly constricted by a blood-dark pressure at the periphery.†   (source)
  • On the patrol back to the landing zone in the desert, I noticed something in my periphery vision blowing in the wind.†   (source)
  • The ceremony took place on the periphery of Times Square, at the Nokia Theater, as it was then called.†   (source)
  • Some were large with complex symbols and runes about their periphery while others were small and simple.†   (source)
  • He was struggling not to allow into his mind the thought that was pressing against its periphery: What were the chances and how long would it take-according to the mathematical theory of probability-for primitive men, working by rule-of-thumb, to hit the right combination of parts and re-create the motor of this engine?†   (source)
  • Small fires burn around the periphery.†   (source)
  • And the animals also on the periphery of rooms and porches, their sounds forever in your ear.†   (source)
  • Lelia and I tended to dwell in the corners, along the periphery.†   (source)
  • Heidi and I found an unoccupied table along the periphery, which was isolated and dark.†   (source)
  • It exploded, bouncing off the wall to the ground, the vapours spreading instantly, clouds of gas swirling, choking men within its billowing periphery.†   (source)
  • A man at the periphery saw Alan and got the attention of the man next to him.†   (source)
  • Yet all around Israel, in the frontline states and in the Arab periphery, anger and resentment burned long after the state came into existence, and societies stagnated under the thumbs of monarchs and dictators.†   (source)
  • The shape of the task group was a giant oval, its periphery marked by the wakes of destroyers and guided-missile frigates and cruisers.†   (source)
  • While white people in the periphery were arming themselves against the day when they would have to defend themselves from attack by blacks (and really believed someone was fomenting a racial war in which black people would rise up and attack them), black people mostly without arms huddled inside the ghettos feeling that they were surrounded by armed whites.†   (source)
  • Her eyes' periphery glimpsed the book.†   (source)
  • He headed commando raids against our most vulnerable campsites on the periphery of the main body.†   (source)
  • We were aware of the new foreigners on the periphery of our town.†   (source)
  • They were to be dropped (if the drop had gone perfectly) on the periphery of our entire target and the neodogs were supposed to range outward and provide tactical intelligence to interdiction squads whose business it was to secure the periphery.†   (source)
  • at the periphery of common sense
  • There is too much illegal logging at the forest's periphery.
    periphery = the outside boundary or surface of something
  • I see a flicker of movement in my periphery, and look out the window that faces the apple orchard.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I could almost see her—really see her, I mean—just at the periphery of my eyesight.†   (source)
  • One caught sight of him at the periphery of one's vision, if one caught sight of him at all.†   (source)
  • The overhead light starred and sparked in the periphery of her vision.†   (source)
  • Spaced about the table's periphery were the haglings, standing at attention like tiny soldiers.†   (source)
  • Parts of the room are lost in shadow, but I can sense something moving at its periphery.†   (source)
  • A shape moves along the sidewalk behind us, slippery in my periphery.†   (source)
  • I can see only a few police cars parked on the periphery, their number scattered about the crowd.†   (source)
  • A dozen grim-looking men stood about its periphery, leaning on long oars that dripped with lake mud.†   (source)
  • Somewhere just at the periphery of his vision, it lurked.†   (source)
  • Mariam went back to the kolba This time, she walked around the west-facing periphery of the clearing so she wouldn't have to pass by Nana.†   (source)
  • Filming in the erratic style of an amateur home video, the camera now panned up to the periphery of the room to reveal a small group of men observing the initiate.†   (source)
  • I recall an early morning, Farmer gazing out the windows of the cab, reentering the first world by staring at the cardboard box–like high-rises of the periphery, where, he said, many of the indigent of Paris had been relocated.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, there were sightings: a blur of billowing dress in the periphery of Mariam's vision, scurrying up the steps, arms folded across the chest, sandals slapping the heels.†   (source)
  • Some of the junk half buried in weeds around the periphery had been there so long that paths circumnavigated it, and I started up one of these, toward a stand of hackberries and hawthorns.†   (source)
  • Just as they used to do when we first arrived here, they materialized one by one out of the moist air and the bamboo thickets until they'd formed a silent, watchful circle around the periphery of our yard.†   (source)
  • "Core periphery," whispered BB.†   (source)
  • I'm relieved when I turn the corner and see the rusty iron fence that marks 37 Brooks's periphery, feel a tremendous rush of happiness when I think of Alex squatting in one of the dark rooms, solemnly packing a backpack with blankets and canned food.†   (source)
  • In their terms, a genius, a god, was loitering on the periphery of their world and they were straining for her attention.†   (source)
  • I could see a vague wall of gray through the brilliant chaos and somehow knew it to be the periphery, the vacuum dwindling but still breaching the wall like a shrinking black stain.†   (source)
  • So, to invite forty-six leaders of a political party to dine around the periphery of an extended U without a seating arrangement was to risk a certain amount of disorder….†   (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)
  • Suddenly I felt Johnny's presence and it was as if a huge, strong hand had scooped us up, lifted us through the periphery wall an instant before the stain snapped our lifeline to existence and the defensive field crashed together like steel teeth.†   (source)
  • For the majority of furniture had been cleared to the periphery, leaving a single table set for two under the chandelier—at which a middle-aged man in a dark gray suit sat alone.†   (source)
  • In his heart of hearts, he had imagined that, even if unattended to, these aspects of his life were lingering somewhere on the periphery, waiting to be recalled.†   (source)
  • Some two dozen people sat around the table and many more were seated in chairs at the room's periphery.†   (source)
  • It being just after ten, the immense mall parking lot is practically deserted, save the hulking, older-model and econobox cars of the store employees, which sparsely line the far periphery in a gesture to the large weekend crowds that have long gone elsewhere.†   (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)
  • He was about to return to the car when he noticed the now familiar flash of movement just beyond his periphery.†   (source)
  • Someone was near, on the periphery of my vision; someone who had outsmarted my hearing, my keen anticipation, which penetrated like a sharp antenna even this distraction, or so I thought.†   (source)
  • I'm half dragged, down, down, around and around, and when the blindfold is removed, I find myself in a room where candles line the periphery.†   (source)
  • He had been in such a daze of desolation for so long, walking through life like a sleeper drifting through a dream, that he would not have noticed these people slinking at the periphery of his vision.†   (source)
  • The pods glided one after another, banking out of the temple and down a long tube that seemed to run along the pyramid's periphery.†   (source)
  • …parts of four states, telegraph poles fell like matchsticks, farmhouses collapsed into chips, city buildings went down as if slashed and minced by a single second's blow, with no time for a sound to be heard by the twisted bodies of the victims-and, on the circle's periphery, halfway across the Mississippi, the engine and the first six cars of a passenger train flew as a shower of metal into the water of the river, along with the western spans of the Taggart Bridge, cut in half.†   (source)
  • Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.†   (source)
  • Invisible as he was, it was easy to slip past the warriors who kept watch around the periphery of the camp.†   (source)
  • The present generating equipment in our laboratory is capable of producing rays to cover-through the outlets which you may observe under the dome-the entire countryside within a radius of a hundred miles, a circle with a periphery extending from the shore of the Mississippi, roughly from the bridge of the Taggart Transcontinental Railroad, to Des Moines and Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Austin, Minnesota, to Woodman, Wisconsin, to Rock Island, Illinois.†   (source)
  • I don't know," I say, the possibilities firing in my head, though most of them involve Dennis, and now even Jack, the two of them watching the blaze from the periphery.†   (source)
  • Max picked it up, running his hands over its polished case and inspecting the symbols etched about its periphery.†   (source)
  • Still connected to David, Max became aware of these new presences on the periphery of his consciousness.†   (source)
  • The crowd muttered, whispered, seething uneasily in the dark, welcomed the loud newcomers who pierced the dense periphery"One side!†   (source)
  • What fascinated him was the little individual who tries to have a charge counter to the central magnetic one and dance his own dance on the periphery.†   (source)
  • Cities were expanding; so-called memorial parks were being forced out to the periphery—wasting space and driving up the price of land.†   (source)
  • At the periphery of its field of movement it would then chance upon letters of the alphabet, and if those toward which it moved formed words that made some sort of sense, it would be the result of a very complex phenomenon, almost impure in its intricacy, a blend of conscious, half-conscious, and subconscious elements—assisted and driven by the wishes of each person present, whether they admitted it to themselves or not—and of a secret sanction granted by unillumined layers within the…†   (source)
  • One must instead be at the periphery at all times.†   (source)
  • …own ground, at such a distance from the nearest public thoroughfare as to render its houselights visible at night above and through a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time limit of not more than 15 minutes from tram or train line (e.g., Dundrum, south, or Sutton, north, both localities equally reported by trial to resemble the terrestrial poles in being favourable climates…†   (source)
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