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  • Pi ixaro: Thank you.†   (source)
  • So she's going to return them and then we're going to Bur-dines and we're going to like pi—"†   (source)
  • Please feel free to round pi to 3.†   (source)
  • He'd been a trainer for the Pittsburgh Pi- rates.†   (source)
  • It's similar to the way Adah will sometimes turn up knowing some entire, difficult thing like French or the square root of pi when I'd been taking for granted I knew everything she did.†   (source)
  • A PIECE OF PI No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty.†   (source)
  • He was beaten like a holiday pi�ata six months earlier, and the dent in his head is the size of the San Fernando Valley.†   (source)
  • They all wore Greek-party T-shirts: Pi Phi Tie-Dye and Fiji Island.†   (source)
  • The long swish of it lifted on an invisible wave with syllables of boomerang antennae, funnels arcing back, a pi-shaped upthrusting at the stern.†   (source)
  • He cut the troublesome PI department down to a single full-time employee, an older colleague who handled routine jobs perfectly well and ran credit checks.†   (source)
  • Every legionnaire carried a harpoonlike spear called a pi/um, a gladius, a dagger, and about a hundred pounds of other equipment.†   (source)
  • 'We're not even using pi,' one kid said.†   (source)
  • Soon the blue closet door was running with Gilbey's Pi, jack Daniel's, J & B whisky, sticky green creme de menthe, the amaretto that had been a Christmas present from Roger and Althea Breakstone.†   (source)
  • "The pi-aner burnt up with him," Dillard said.†   (source)
  • PI NKERTON/GALLIMARD.†   (source)
  • We would need a pi' rate fleet … and even if we found one, the word has come back from Slaver's Bay that Meereen has been closed off by blockade."†   (source)
  • It's a sine I think you're sweet as pi.†   (source)
  • She would be thinking that when you've married somebody else's husband, if you play on her pi-ana it ought to be a contrite hymn that starts, "Lord, my sins be as scarlet" or "Too shamed to lift my head, Lord, too stained to hope for Heaven."†   (source)
  • They were followed by Furie, a Timmani farmer in his early twenties, and his father Pi-e; both were captured together in their rice field by rival tribesmen.†   (source)
  • He crudely referred to the comfort girl as chosen-pi, a base anatomical slur which also denoted her Koreanness.†   (source)
  • 'Pi ge!' said the banker, ordering two of the guards out of the flat; they bowed and left quickly.†   (source)
  • Although I am still bound by USC Pi.†   (source)
  • She nodded in the direction of the mountain, Tse-pi'na, the woman veiled in clouds.†   (source)
  • Startled pi-dogs added to the din.†   (source)
  • No, oh no. You used to play the pi-anna in the picture show when you's little and I's young and in town, dear love," she called, turning away through the dark.†   (source)
  • But the thing is that when I do a PI, I also look at what I think about the person.†   (source)
  • As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!†   (source)
  • [Long silence] Pi Patel: "Would you like a cookie?"†   (source)
  • Distant sound of water gushing out of a tap] Pi Patel: "What's happening?†   (source)
  • [Silence] Pi Patel: "Tigers exist, lifeboats exist, oceans exist.†   (source)
  • [Long silence] Pi Patel: "Is this your first visit to Mexico?"†   (source)
  • Pi Patel: "Do you have another chocolate bar?"†   (source)
  • Pi Patel: "You want words that reflect reality?"†   (source)
  • " Pi Patel: "With the tall, full-sized trees firmly rooted to the ground I was telling you about."†   (source)
  • "Thank you, Piscine," said one; "Thank you, Pi," said the other.†   (source)
  • I am Piscine Molitor Patel, known to all as Pi Patel!†   (source)
  • Pi Patel: "Would you like some cookies for the road?"†   (source)
  • [Long silence] Pi Patel: "So, you didn't like my story?"†   (source)
  • Will you help me with my math homework, Pi?†   (source)
  • Then Piscine Molitor Patel, known to all as Pi Patel, bends down and picks up his daughter.†   (source)
  • He ignored the zodiac signs and letters, lining up the correct numbers so they made the value of pi.†   (source)
  • He broke his pi/um over a defender's head, then reluctantly drew his gladius.†   (source)
  • "Pi would expand outward, because it's infinite."†   (source)
  • I was the preacher, Miss Love was the pi-ana player, and the both of us made up the congregation.†   (source)
  • You and me and her, we'd have sech a good time round thet pi-ana after dinner.†   (source)
  • Frank propped his pi/um against his shield and checked Percy's armor.†   (source)
  • You miss thet collection plate goin' around, and Miss Effie Belle plowin' up and down the pi-ana?†   (source)
  • A fourth, considerably smaller area that occupied only a few employees was what was called PI or P-In, in internal jargon pinders, which stood for personal investigations.†   (source)
  • Pi Patel: "Don't worry, you won't.†   (source)
  • That's what some people say, Pi.†   (source)
  • Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, without further ado, it is my pleasure and honour to present to you: THE PI PATEL,INDO-CANADIAN,TRANS-PACIFIC, FLOATING CIRCUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSS!†   (source)
  • Before the teacher could say a word, I picked up a piece of chalk and said as I wrote: My name, is Piscine Molitor Patel, know to all as —I double underlined the first two letters of my given name— Pi Partel For good measure I added .†   (source)
  • Pi Patel: "Terrible business.†   (source)
  • Then he said, "Very well, Pi.†   (source)
  • Pi Patel my name.†   (source)
  • Pi Patel: "Thank you.†   (source)
  • Pi Patel: "Yes.†   (source)
  • Pi Patel: "Wonderful!"†   (source)
  • Pi Patel: "Ha!†   (source)
  • Hello, Pi.†   (source)
  • "Hello, Pi," he said.†   (source)
  • Pi Patel: "A what?"†   (source)
  • Pi Patel: "Thank you.†   (source)
  • Which Colin did when lie was ten, by making up a 99-word sentence in which the first letter of each word corresponded to the digit of pi (a= I b=2, etc.; j=0).†   (source)
  • They thought if he was gonna roast himself he ought to have at least rolled the pi-aner out the door.†   (source)
  • Mr. McCabe, their math teacher, was walking through the rows of desks, tossing a tennis ball against the ceiling and singing a bastardized Don McLean song: 'Bye, bye, what's the value of pi Gotta fidget with the digits Till this class has gone by' Them ninth graders were workin' hard with a sigh Sayin', Mr. McCabe, come on, why?†   (source)
  • When they stopped to eat the bread and tamales Auntie had packed for them, they could hear a low rumble of thunder in the distance, from the direction of Tse-pi'na, Mount Taylor.†   (source)
  • Requirements include at least fourteen years' experience as a certified child prodigy, ability to anagram adeptly (and alliterate agilely), fluency in eleven languages. fob duties include reading, remembering encyclopedias, novels, and poetry; and memorizing the first ninety-nine digits of pi."†   (source)
  • He calculated the value of pi.†   (source)
  • "I'm pretty sure pi is, uh, 3.†   (source)
  • She lay on her side on the stretcher with a pi/um sticking out of her armor—almost like she was holding it between her chest and her arm, but there was too much blood.†   (source)
  • He didn't have a pi/um.†   (source)
  • Miss Love was still sittin' at the pi-ana waitin' for the next page number when he started his sermon.†   (source)
  • The answer wouldn't be pi.†   (source)
  • When I wanted to sing some barbershop harmony, she called it sacrilegious, bein' Sunday, but finely I got her goin' on the pi-ana and we had us a real good time.†   (source)
  • What's the value of pi?"†   (source)
  • We got a pi-ana.†   (source)
  • The pi-ana cinched it.†   (source)
  • D'you mean to tell me that this pi-anno was brought here by the route we came along yesterday?†   (source)
  • They walked to the river with their Maker, and then he told them that his name was Na'pi, Old Man.†   (source)
  • His father was Avaiyo' pi'i (water snake red).†   (source)
  • And beside them, the nickel phonograph with records piled up like pies, ready to swing out to the turntable and play dance music, "Ti-pi-ti-pi-tin," "Thanks for the Memory,"1 Bing Crosby, Benny Goodman.†   (source)
  • This establishment caters for all tastes--some people like little Chink gels who play the pi-anno, isn't that so?†   (source)
  • You've certainly got a swell outfit here, Chang, and that little girl of yours plays the pi-anno very nicely.†   (source)
  • Digamma Pi was a lively boarding-house with a billiard table and low prices.†   (source)
  • Sensitive as he was, however, Hans Castorp proved less susceptible to pi than Paravant.†   (source)
  • Digamma Pi fraternity was giving a dance.†   (source)
  • In the joy of his laboratory work Martin thought rarely of his recent associates in Digamma Pi.†   (source)
  • There's nothing for it," said the president of Digamma Pi.†   (source)
  • V. At examination-time, Digamma Pi fraternity showed its value to urgent seekers after wisdom.†   (source)
  • Fatty was of all the new Freshmen candidates the most useful to Digamma Pi.†   (source)
  • Digamma Pi was housed in a residence built in the expansive days of 1885.†   (source)
  • It was not till Angus Duer accepted election to Digamma Pi that Martin himself came in.†   (source)
  • Immediately he became as annoying to his patients as he had once been to Digamma Pi.†   (source)
  • Then, I said I supposed he had a fine business, and Wemmick said, "Ca-pi-tal!"†   (source)
  • He illustrated the despairs of pi for the young man with a precise, painfully executed drawing of a circle trapped between two polygons, circumscribing one, circumscribed by the other, each with as many countless tiny sides as it was humanly possible to draw.†   (source)
  • The rest, however, the curvature that by some ethereal, spiritual means escaped the calculable embrace that could turn it into a rational number—that, said the prosecutor, his jaw trembling, that was pi!†   (source)
  • He knew only one, dreadfully tedious topic of conversation: the ratio pi, that forlorn fraction, which a lesser genius of mental arithmetic named Zacharias Dase had once worked out to two hundred decimal places—a superfluous task, since even at two thousand places he would have had no greater prospect of approaching unattainable accuracy, indeed would not have been one whit closer to it.†   (source)
  • After pointlessly multiplying pi by diameter to find the circumference of innumerable circles, pi by the square of the radius to find their area, the prosecutor increasingly began to wonder if since the days of Archimedes humanity had not just been making the whole thing too complicated, if the solution to the problem was not childishly simple.†   (source)
  • Martin, Ira Hinkley, Angus Duer, Clif Clawson, the meaty class jester, and one "Fatty" Pfaff were initiated into Digamma Pi together.†   (source)
  • Then he had it: Watters, the appalling normal medical student whose faith in the good, the true, the profitable, had annoyed him at Digamma Pi.†   (source)
  • Dr. Pickerbaugh backed up his injunctions with statistics as impressive as those the Reverend Ira Hinkley had once used at Digamma Pi.†   (source)
  • Now that most of his Arts classmates had departed to insurance offices, law schools, and banks, he was lonely, and tempted by an invitation from Digamma Pi, the chief medical fraternity.†   (source)
  • With none of the profane observations on "medical peddlers" which had annoyed Digamma Pi, Martin studied the catalogue of the New Idea Instrument and Furniture Company, of Jersey City.†   (source)
  • Digamma Pi was more annoyed by Martin's restless doubtings than by Fatty's idiocy, Clif Clawson's raucousness, Angus Duer's rasping, or the Reverend Ira Hinkley's nagging.†   (source)
  • But Martin was alienated from the civilized, industrious, nice young men of Digamma Pi, in whose faces he could already see prescriptions, glossy white sterilizers, smart enclosed motors, and glass office-signs in the best gilt lettering.†   (source)
  • There was a certain fondness for him in Digamma Pi; Fatty was soft, Fatty was superstitious, Fatty was an imbecile, yet they had for him the annoyed affection they might have had for a second-hand motor or a muddy dog.†   (source)
  • No discussion at the Digamma Pi supper table was more violent than the incessant debate over the value to a doctor, a decent normal doctor who made a good living and did not worry about reading papers at medical associations, of remembering anatomical terms.†   (source)
  • Yet the man stood out so bleakly from a mass of students who could neither complete their experiments nor ponder nor do anything save smoke pipes and watch football-practice that Martin loved him while he hated him, and almost meekly he followed him into Digamma Pi.†   (source)
  • Martin's imaginative dismay at being caught here by Watters was not lessened when Leora and he reluctantly appeared on Sunday at one-thirty and were by a fury of Old Friendship dragged back into the days of Digamma Pi.†   (source)
  • By a connection not evident to him he remembered that the Sunday before, in the slummy chapel where he preached during his medical course, he had exalted the sacrifice of the martyrs and they had sung of the blood of the lamb, the fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, but this meditation he lost, and he lumbered toward Digamma Pi in a fog of pondering pity.†   (source)
  • But so determin'd I was to continue doing a sheet a day of the folio, that one night, when, having impos'd my forms, I thought my day's work over, one of them by accident was broken, and two pages reduced to pi, I immediately distributed and compos'd it over again before I went to bed; and this industry, visible to our neighbors, began to give us character and credit; particularly, I was told, that mention being made of the new printing-office at the merchants' Every-night club, the…†   (source)
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