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Euclid
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    "As our old friend Euclid says," murmured Poirot.  (source)
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    But oh, Diana, tomorrow the geometry exam comes off and when I think of it it takes every bit of determination I possess to keep from opening my Euclid.  (source)
    Euclid = referring to geometry by using the name of the Greek mathematician known as the Father of Geometry
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    And he retains besides all Euclid's other axioms.  (source)
    Euclid = Greek mathematician known as the Father of Geometry
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    In 1621 a Latin translation was published of Diophantus' Arithmetica which contained a complete compilation of the number theories that Pythagoras, Euclid, and other ancient mathematicians had formulated.  (source)
    Euclid = Greek mathematician known as the Father of Geometry
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    A huge, illuminated geodesic dome it is, providing an overhead view with which Euclid would have been pleased.  (source)
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    I'm inclined to agree with Euclid, I don't think these two parallels will ever meet.  (source)
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    Now, with a situation developing before his eyes which has always been notoriously difficult of solution—so difficult that it has been given a label and called the Eternal Triangle, as if it were a geometrical problem like the Pons Asinorum in Euclid—Arthur was only able to retreat It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat.  (source)
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    If he can, then is it as marvellous a thing in him, as if a man were able simultaneously to go through the demonstrations of two distinct problems in Euclid.  (source)
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    He regarded every public measure that came before him, a fellow Senator observed, as though it were an abstract proposition from Euclid, unfettered by considerations of political appeal.  (source)
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    Recalling their youth, one of his brothers would describe Nathanael during lulls in the clamor of the foundry, seated near the great trip-hammer, a leather-bound volume of Euclid in hand, calmly studying.  (source)
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    Considering how much world there was to catch up with—Asurbanipal, Euclid, Alaric, Metternich, Madison, Blackhawk—if you didn't devote your whole life to it, how were you ever going to do it?  (source)
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    "Euclid, my lad,—why, what's that?" said Mr. Tulliver.  (source)
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    Life isn't long enough to work out everything in Euclid problems before you believe it.  (source)
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    It nearly killed him to buy white shirts and a suit for his new job in Euclid.  (source)
    Euclid = a city name in this novel
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    Jose Faz would bring his son on errands to the Mart down on Euclid and Flores streets.  (source)
    Euclid = the name of a street
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    When he came back, he said we were moving to Euclid.  (source)
    Euclid = a city name in this novel
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    When we moved to Euclid, one of the first things I did was to unpack gifts my mother had given me.  (source)
    Euclid = a city name in this novel
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    I didn't help pack, but when the time came, I climbed in the car and joined my father for our move to Euclid.  (source)
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    Just over a year ago, my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all our belongings (no, that is not true—he did not bring the chestnut tree, the willow, the maple, the hayloft, or the swimming hole, which all belonged to me) and we drove three hundred miles straight north and stopped in front of a house in Euclid, Ohio.  (source)
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    Because I first saw Phoebe on the day my father and I moved to Euclid, I began my story of Phoebe with the visit to the red-headed Margaret Cadaver's, where I also met Mrs. Partridge, her elderly mother.  (source)
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    He said he would rent out the farm, hire someone to care for the animals and the crops, and rent a house for us in Euclid.  (source)
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    On that long day that my father and I left the farm behind and drove to Euclid, I wished that my father was not such a good man, so there would be someone to blame for my mother's leaving.  (source)
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