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  • The elevator comes to a slight pause and then begins to move laterally to the left.†   (source)
  • Prior's lateral prefrontal cortex.†   (source)
  • He studies in his apartment, and occasionally up at one of the libraries at Columbia, learning about the matter-of-fact aspects of his profession: electricity, materials, lateral forces.†   (source)
  • Unseen scalpels completed the job of opening her, lateral incisions appearing like obscene time-lapse footage of a mad surgeon's favorite operation.†   (source)
  • All I'm really saying is that we readers sometimes forget how long literary composition can take and how very much lateral thinking can go on in that amount of time.†   (source)
  • She laterally moved her arm 42 degrees for the first time in her life.†   (source)
  • Smoke filled the caverns between buildings and reduced lateral visibility to a few blocks.†   (source)
  • "I got it a half hour ago on the lateral array," Jones said.†   (source)
  • The answer has always been that language is a skill acquired laterally — that what children pick up from other children is as, or more, important in the acquisition of language as what they pick up at home.†   (source)
  • Just as Hema feared, there was a lateral tear in the uterus.†   (source)
  • A workman's eyes snap shut while he's going at full run, and he drops in his tracks; two of his buddies running by grab him up and lateral him into a furnace as they pass.†   (source)
  • Van Hooser had served multiple tours as a Marine in Vietnam, then laterally transferred into the Navy and went through the SEAL program.†   (source)
  • Then the tone arm shifted laterally and the disc began to spin and this series of laboriously linked actions with their noises and pauses and teeterings, their dimwit delays, seemed to place him in some lost mechanical age with the pendulum clock and hand-cranked motorcar.†   (source)
  • And from the laterals of the fence up by the pond she could tell there must be almost a foot of it.†   (source)
  • Over a sharp lip of lateral moraine, the debris band that forms at the edge of a glacier, he was suddenly face to face with a five-thousand-foot wall blocking any hope of further progress.†   (source)
  • Tom's momentum carried him laterally, directly toward the opposite wall.†   (source)
  • It's just a question of lateral thinking.†   (source)
  • Friction wheels control lateral motion (movement to either side of the track).†   (source)
  • ....and Johnson hit Jeffries at an angle of 45 degrees from his lower left lateral incisor, producing an instantaneous blocking of his entire thalamic rine, frosting it over like the freezing unit of a refrigerator, thus shattering his autonomous nervous system and rocking the big brick-laying creampuff with extreme hyperspasmic muscular tremors which dropped him dead on the extreme tip of his coccyx, which, in turn, produced a sharp traumatic reaction in his sphincter nerve and muscle, and then, my dear colleague, they swept him up, sprinkled him with quicklime and rolled him away in a barrow.†   (source)
  • At the mention of dogs Bourne had automatically reached into his back pocket and removed the CO2 gun; he then crawled laterally, rapidly, through the underbrush to within feet of the extended fence.†   (source)
  • Lateral truths point to the falseness of axioms and postulates underlying one's existing system of getting at truth.†   (source)
  • It's resting against the lateral ventricle.†   (source)
  • By bad luck Edmund is under Cox, so he also passes it laterally, through Enwright....and that gets it past burned-out part and it goes up through Dover, Chambers, and Beeswax, to Adam, front office....who replies down other side of pyramid, with lateral pass on E-for-easy level from Esther to Egbert and on to Ezra and Edmund.†   (source)
  • He'd worked on All News 60, then made the lateral transfer to Channel 75, first in the social data unit, then into hard news.†   (source)
  • His face, with its dark, lateral, wolflike eyes, a crooked mouth, and a sharp and substantial nose, was tight with resolution.†   (source)
  • A severe yaw creates lateral acceleration, which can throw standing passengers to the floor, spill food and drinks, and induce a general state of alarm.†   (source)
  • Friction wheels control lateral motion (movement to either side of the track).†   (source)
  • Sampson and I watched Browning Lowell do a tough set of lateral raises, then some leg curls and presses.†   (source)
  • "The ball entered through the occipital bone about one inch to the left of the median line and just above the left lateral sinus, which it opened," the autopsy will read.†   (source)
  • Then, in one fluid motion, Yousef slid laterally across the expressway and was soon on the highway for non-Muslims.†   (source)
  • Annie Kate dropped my hand quickly, and I moved laterally away from her.†   (source)
  • Thus, by using the clay or washboard laterals, they could avoid retracing the same highway and save a few miles.†   (source)
  • His job change was a lateral move, but he was eager to transfer to California.
  • The veteran basketball player made a lateral move from starting point guard to starting shooting guard after the team acquired a new younger point guard.
  • The desperate football team scored off the kickoff thanks to four incredible laterals.
  • The lateral branches of a tree looked too heavy.
  • Nothing for him to do ... Grant's gaze was fixed on the raptor, moving slowly, laterally.†   (source)
  • Tim heard the sound of a door opening, and he swung his head away from the tyrannosaur—the night-vision goggles streaked laterally—in time to see Ed Regis stepping out through the open door, ducking his head in the rain.†   (source)
  • Kate and I went forward until we reached the lateral gangways down to the two engine cars.†   (source)
  • In fact, it is one of the largest lateral prefrontal cortexes I've ever seen.†   (source)
  • The MDV wasn't made for liftoff and lateral flight.†   (source)
  • The Pogy noted her passage and turned to allow her lateral array to track on the Red October.†   (source)
  • Langdon's lateral motion dragged his captor's arms sideways, compromising his balance.†   (source)
  • I walked to the middle of the cord and pulled it laterally.†   (source)
  • Skipper, Jones picked up a funny signal on the lateral.†   (source)
  • The tarp flared, and Langdon sensed his body sliding laterally.†   (source)
  • I started down a lateral passage toward the ship's starboard side.†   (source)
  • As it did, wind shear blew it laterally off course.†   (source)
  • Kate and I wished Bruce luck and he limped off down a lateral walkway to the ship's starboard hull.†   (source)
  • Drifting is what one does when looking at lateral truth.†   (source)
  • Havilland and Alex Conklin reached their own bi-lateral agreement.†   (source)
  • I talked about Phaedrus' lateral drift, which ended with entry into the discipline of philosophy.†   (source)
  • They had passed no car on the clay lateral, nor any houses either.†   (source)
  • The route climbed up and down the unsettled rocks of the Khumbu Glacier's lateral moraine for several miles, then dropped down onto the glacier itself.†   (source)
  • We can't move laterally.†   (source)
  • The coroner who examined the deceased in question included mention in his report of, if I remember it correctly, a 'secondary and minor laceration of the right hand extending laterally from the fold between the thumb and forefinger to the outside of the wrist.'†   (source)
  • At first they'd play tennis, on the clay court behind Crake's place, but Crake combined method with lateral thinking and hated to lose, and Jimmy was impetuous and lacked finesse, so that wasn't too productive and they dropped it.†   (source)
  • And lateral thinking is what we're really discussing: the way writers can keep their eye on the target, whether it be the plot of the play or the ending of the novel or the argument of the poem, and at the same time bring in a great deal of at least tangentially related material.†   (source)
  • At 21,300 feet, Camp Two consisted of some 120 tents scattered across the bare rocks of the lateral moraine along the glacier's edge.†   (source)
  • We are in a comfortable Dark Ages of the inventive mind; institutions change but little, and that by gradual evolution rather than revolution; scientific research creeps crablike in a lateral shuffle, where once it leaped in great intuitive bounds; devices change even less, plateau technologies common to us would be instantly identifiable-and operable!†   (source)
  • Passing through the towering ice pinnacles of Phantom Alley we entered the rock-strewn valley floor at the bottom of a huge amphitheater ...Here [the Icefall] turned sharply to flow southward as the Khumhu Glacier We set up our Base Camp at 17,800 feet on the lateral moraine that formed the outer edge of the turn.†   (source)
  • It pulled abreast of the basin, moving laterally along the rim until its side was flush with the fountain.†   (source)
  • Distortions of that distance or lateral movement of the weights indicated variations in the local gravitational field.†   (source)
  • The increased pressure, lateral displacement of a weld joint, and cumulative effect of years of high-temperature erosion of the steel damaged the joint.†   (source)
  • Bear in mind, this is the end result of thousands of hours of work, testing, and lateral thinking by all the best guys at JPL.†   (source)
  • But while NASA had tested the effects of extreme g-forces on protein cubes, they had not done so with a simultaneous lateral vibration.†   (source)
  • Several staged sets of chutes deployed automatically to slow our descent, then Martinez manually piloted us to the ground, using the thrusters to slow descent and control our lateral motion.†   (source)
  • He put the barrel of his automatic laterally against the flesh of the assassin's arm muscle and pulled the trigger.†   (source)
  • I could tell from the gentle way my capsule entered the atmosphere that the Captain had laid us down with as near zero lateral vector as you could ask for.†   (source)
  • Each night, they slept in a series of caves along the lateral moraine, as well-known to the Balti as a string of watering holes would be to a caravan of Bedouin.†   (source)
  • Abandoning caution, Delta raced to the door, gripping his AK-47 laterally in his arm, the safety unlatched, his index finger on the trigger.†   (source)
  • It then penetrated the dura matter, passed through the left posterior lobe of the cerebrum, entered the left lateral ventricle and lodged in the white matter of the cerebrum just above the anterior portion of the left corpus striatum.†   (source)
  • Their retros were removed, leaving only lateral thrustors, and spare retros were taken to new catapult, to be modified for lateral guidance.†   (source)
  • There are these other sounds on the tape—here, the rattle and clink of small loose objects being flung around by the sudden lateral acceleration.†   (source)
  • They could not get around the blaze and behind it, because it was spreading laterally faster than they could hike through the underbrush and across the rugged terrain.†   (source)
  • By bad luck Edmund is under Cox, so he also passes it laterally, through Enwright....and that gets it past burned-out part and it goes up through Dover, Chambers, and Beeswax, to Adam, front office....who replies down other side of pyramid, with lateral pass on E-for-easy level from Esther to Egbert and on to Ezra and Edmund.†   (source)
  • Lateral drift, waiting for something.†   (source)
  • Lateral knowledge is knowledge that's from a wholly unexpected direction, from a direction that's not even understood as a direction until the knowledge forces itself upon one.†   (source)
  • At first the truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed, but the kind of truth you see laterally, out of the corner of your eye.†   (source)
  • In a stunned state Phaedrus began a long series of lateral drifts that led him into a far orbit of the mind, but he eventually returned along a route we are now following, to the doors of the University itself.†   (source)
  • His lateral drift was ended.†   (source)
  • Just lateral drift.†   (source)
  • I've heard it said that the only real learning results from hangups, where instead of expanding the branches of what you already know, you have to stop and drift laterally for a while until you come across something that allows you to expand the roots of what you already know.†   (source)
  • In a laboratory situation, when your whole procedure goes haywire, when everything goes wrong or is indeterminate or is so screwed up by unexpected results you can't make head or tail out of anything, you start looking laterally.†   (source)
  • At first the truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed, but the kind of truth you see laterally, out of the corner of your eye.†   (source)
  • The saddle rigs were complex; each pair of legs had a leather yoke over it and the load was distributed by poles flexing laterally, one on each side, and mounted on this was a chair with a back, a padded seat, and arm rests.†   (source)
  • After twelve miles a little-used lateral led toward Pasco Creek and they would go almost to Pasco Creek and then cut into the road for Fort Repose.†   (source)
  • They took the lateral north.†   (source)
  • She moved it laterally on the surface of pebbles, where its numerous heraldic tufts and foliations made a rustling noise, and sometimes she scratched the bluff with a small whimper.†   (source)
  • Benny was also afflicted with a lateral emission-no word he uttered ever succeeded in reaching his lips, but instead splashed out through his missing teeth.†   (source)
  • He stalked carefully about the neighborhood, keeping a block away from the house at all times, observing it obliquely, laterally, from front and back, with stealthy eye and a smothering thud of the heart, but never passing before it, never coming directly to it.†   (source)
  • "As you know," he began again, and now his tone carried a hint of the lecture room, of academic precision, "the plate showed in lateral view a fracture and dislocation of the fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae.†   (source)
  • It was not a thick-growing cone, but a naked, twisted trunk, perhaps ten feet high, and at the top it parted into two lateral, flat-lying branches, with a little crest of green in the centre, just above the cleavage.†   (source)
  • They went along a line of red doorways and across the bare rock to the gaunt ruin, whose lateral walls, with their buttresses, still braved the storm and let in the starlight.†   (source)
  • He expressed the West with a sweeping, lateral gesture.†   (source)
  • The further one descended the garden, the more glorious was this lateral view.†   (source)
  • He allowed his head to swing laterally three or four times in silence.†   (source)
  • Its oblong body ended in a very long caudal fin and its lateral fins in actual fingers.†   (source)
  • —PATRON MINETTE Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries.†   (source)
  • I took a frenzied pleasure in contrasting its downward with its lateral velocity.†   (source)
  • There are small lateral columns of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you.†   (source)
  • In his dream he saw the turntable whirling around its spindle, so fast it became invisible, inaudible, not simply rotating wildly in place, but moving in a strange lateral undulation so that the arm beneath which it turned began to oscillate supplely, as if it were breathing—very useful, one might suppose, for the vibrato and portamento of strings and human voices.†   (source)
  • And here, not to clog the sequel with lateral matters, it may be added that at a suitable hour, the Master-at-arms was committed to the sea with every funeral honor properly belonging to his naval grade.†   (source)
  • The soldier once more spoke; in a tone of suggestive dubiety addressing at once his associates and Captain Vere: "Nobody is present—none of the ship's company, I mean—who might shed lateral light, if any is to be had, upon what remains mysterious in this matter.†   (source)
  • Then, turning to Monte Cristo,—"I hope you will permit me to leave you for a few minutes," continued she; and without awaiting any reply, disappeared behind a clump of trees, and escaped to the house by a lateral alley.†   (source)
  • At any rate it was clear that we were not in the main shaft of the volcano, but in a lateral gallery where there were felt recurrent tunes of reaction.†   (source)
  • They begin to deepen; they pile story upon story; they mount upon each other; they gush forth at the top, like all laterally compressed growth, and there is a rivalry as to which shall thrust its head above its neighbors, for the sake of getting a little air.†   (source)
  • As he approached the stream, his heart began to thump; he summoned up, however, all his resolution, gave his horse half a score of kicks in the ribs, and attempted to dash briskly across the bridge; but instead of starting forward, the perverse old animal made a lateral movement, and ran broadside against the fence.†   (source)
  • Then the lateral branches were innumerable—inconceivable—and so returning in upon themselves, that our most exact ideas in regard to the whole mansion were not very far different from those with which we pondered upon infinity.†   (source)
  • I placed his desk close up to a small side-window in that part of the room, a window which originally had afforded a lateral view of certain grimy back-yards and bricks, but which, owing to subsequent erections, commanded at present no view at all, though it gave some light.†   (source)
  • In youth, the tulip-tree, or Liriodendron Tulipferum, the most magnificent of American foresters, has a trunk peculiarly smooth, and often rises to a great height without lateral branches; but, in its riper age, the bark becomes gnarled and uneven, while many short limbs make their appearance on the stem.†   (source)
  • She was stationed in the edge of the low pines and chestnuts that succeed the first or large growth of the forest, and directly above the angle where the highway turned from the straight course to the village, and ascended the mountain laterally.†   (source)
  • The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.†   (source)
  • From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole line.†   (source)
  • In an instant the ladder was raised, and propped against the balustrade of the lower gallery, above one of the lateral doors.†   (source)
  • Several moments after passing the bell chamber, he came upon a little landing-place, built in a lateral niche, and under the vault of a low, pointed door, whose enormous lock and strong iron bars he was enabled to see through a loophole pierced in the opposite circular wall of the staircase.†   (source)
  • In the centre of the lofty Gothic* façade of the palace, the grand staircase, incessantly ascended and descended by a double current, which, after parting on the intermediate landing-place, flowed in broad waves along its lateral slopes,—the grand staircase, I say, trickled incessantly into the place, like a cascade into a lake.†   (source)
  • There are, invariably, two naves, which intersect in a cross, and whose upper portion, rounded into an apse, forms the choir; there are always the side aisles, for interior processions, for chapels,—a sort of lateral walks or promenades where the principal nave discharges itself through the spaces between the pillars.†   (source)
  • And, in the first place, to cite only a few leading examples, there certainly are few finer architectural pages than this façade, where, successively and at once, the three portals hollowed out in an arch; the broidered and dentated cordon of the eight and twenty royal niches; the immense central rose window, flanked by its two lateral windows, like a priest by his deacon and subdeacon; the frail and lofty gallery of trefoil arcades, which supports a heavy platform above its fine, slender columns; and lastly, the two black and massive towers with their slate penthouses, harmonious parts of a magnificent whole, superposed in five gigantic stories;—develop themselves before th†   (source)
  • Narrator: reclined laterally, left, with right and left legs flexed, the index finger and thumb of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose, in the attitude depicted in a snapshot photograph made by Percy Apjohn, the childman weary, the manchild in the womb.†   (source)
  • A rabbitry and fowlrun, a dovecote, a botanical conservatory, 2 hammocks (lady's and gentleman's), a sundial shaded and sheltered by laburnum or lilac trees, an exotically harmonically accorded Japanese tinkle gatebell affixed to left lateral gatepost, a capacious waterbutt, a lawnmower with side delivery and grassbox, a lawnsprinkler with hydraulic hose.†   (source)
  • These changes in the Heavens, though slow, produced
    Like change on sea and land; sideral blast,
    Vapour, and mist, and exhalation hot,
    Corrupt and pestilent: Now from the north
    Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shore,
    Bursting their brazen dungeon, armed with ice,
    And snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw,
    Boreas, and Caecias, and Argestes loud,
    And Thrascias, rend the woods, and seas upturn;
    With adverse blast upturns them from the south
    Notus, and Afer black with thunderous clouds
    From Serraliona; thwart of these, as fierce,
    Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds,
    Eurus and Zephyr, with their lateral noise,
    Sirocco and Libecchio.†   (source)
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