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He could always reason things out if he had enough time, and he had read Euclid when he was five, but the test had a time limit so there wouldn't be a chance to think. (source)Euclid = Greek mathematician known as the Father of Geometry
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In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. (source)
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He says anyone who doesn't understand the theorems of Euclid is an idiot. (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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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)
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And human anatomy, I see, and Euclid's Geometry, or are you just recopying the text? (source)
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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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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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A huge, illuminated geodesic dome it is, providing an overhead view with which Euclid would have been pleased. (source)
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"As our old friend Euclid says," murmured Poirot. (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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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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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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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)Euclid = Greek mathematician known as the Father of Geometry
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It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. (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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We drove off campus and up Euclid, where many students lived in run-down wooden houses. (source)Euclid = untracked name in this novel
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Euclid P. Tinker? (source)Euclid = untracked name in this novel
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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)
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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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