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    periphery


    1. The withdrawing of the mind-consciousness from the periphery of the body, so that the avenues of outer perception and contact (the five senses) are stilled, and the consciousness is no longer outgoing


    2. There was sudden movement across the periphery of my vision


    3. On the periphery of his consciousness, Andy half heard what was happening in the rest of the room


    4. Even so, in his periphery, he saw that the wall was being covered by the foul creatures


    5. periphery, both by the sea and to the


    6. periphery there are sumptuous vil as of


    7. Annoyance turning to the inevitable stinging pain, then distracted even from that by the wonder of what was caught in the periphery of his vision


    8. It was difficult to see in periphery, but they were only out of his sight for a few seconds before returning


    9. Jack could see her on the periphery of his vision


    10. The program had been renewed (or re-booted) when the Darangi had taken control, after Monique herself had activated a shutdown sequence from inside some periphery of TIAR

    11. One effect in this realm's periphery was his own appreciation (if not any true comprehension) of its beginning


    12. thought I had a glimmer of an answer floating around near the periphery of my


    13. Grindel had taken great pains in searching out a badger such as Cherva, travelling to many setts on the periphery of Brockenhurst Forest before finding a suitable candidate


    14. As yet it was small, only reaching to the periphery of Brockenhurst Forest, but soon he would expand his influence to encompass all of Boddaert's Realm


    15. That many of these groups reside on the periphery of Western European traditions, adds another dimension to the equation


    16. By focusing your attention on the perimeter, the periphery of Empire, you neglected the possibility of a palace revolution


    17. unabashedly positioned themselves in the huddle and a few held back, on the periphery


    18. He led us around the periphery back toward the entrance hall


    19. Around the periphery of the stockade, there were several smaller mounds, most with yurts, but a few were conical with no room for houses


    20. Around the mounds on the periphery were many more yurts on the ground level

    21. I wandered through the yurt center of the city to the periphery where the house style varied greatly, from the conical hide tents, to the earth houses, to the stick and hide huts, and to the occasional yurt


    22. Few noticed, since most of the adults were still in the fields, and the children were on the periphery under the watchful eyes of their grandmothers


    23. Most of the houses were now made of the dull red rock called tezontli, but there were still some simpler reed and thatch houses on the periphery


    24. The wigwams were clustered around an open space and there were cultivated fields on the periphery


    25. Still, science retains what Derbyshire calls a “core magisterium” that “we can and do trust” even while at the periphery there are those in regard to whom it is best


    26. Degeneration of the Latin language at its periphery hastened the Roman Empire’s dissolution in the Middle Ages


    27. and not whirling at the periphery


    28. In Beijing, an interesting and intriguing city of six million inhabitants, the group strode through the periphery of the huge and incomparable Tiananmen Square, well known for the 1989 “killings”, which the Chinese authorities call “incidents”


    29. The legions were stationed on the periphery of the empire in order to protect Italy from invaders from Gaul, Germania, Greece, and Asia Minor (See map V)


    30. news from the center to the periphery could take weeks or months

    31. The New Deal brought about a monumental shift in power from the periphery of the country, to


    32. Extra chairs had been brought and arranged in semi-circles along the side closest to the corner of the room, a few young females sat on their boyfriend’s laps, and there were small groups who stood around the periphery, holding their drinks and chatting with those who were seated there


    33. And so it went as the line of soldiers marched them out of the port compound and onto a road, not much more than a path, that led up the rise of hard-packed sand that encircled the City’s periphery


    34. Seeing motion on the periphery of his vision, Aaron turned to see an outrider approaching at a hurried pace toward their place at the head of the mass of humanity that the multitude had become


    35. periphery of the central portion of the City


    36. Seeing motion on the periphery of his vision, Aaron turned to see an outrider approaching at a


    37. I stood, aware that I was in Toivo’s periphery, and moved


    38. as well as their corporate periphery in relation with the migration


    39. A gift from his wife many years ago, it was of fine cotton embroidered with the initials DES—she'd never cared for the nickname Jack—and had a quarter-inch satiny dark-blue band woven near the periphery


    40. matter is within the periphery of the physical body of a man Similarly,

    41. They had been designed with the object of creating a high tech environment on the periphery of the city


    42. the periphery of that body


    43. 99% of which is compressed within the periphery of this physical body


    44. It’s out there on the edge of your periphery, at the tip of your tongue


    45. Death is merely the dead skin that lies at your periphery, or the air that breezes by your fingertips and across your scalp


    46. As he was wiping the periphery of the mirror, his duster caught on what he assumed was a splinter but when he glanced at the spot he saw a tiny, red triangle


    47. Sharing watch duties, they scanned the periphery of their sector searching for more invaders


    48. Bill to seat visitors and exhibitors on the periphery of the


    49. As predicted, the timber wolf like animals appeared around the periphery of the construction site appearing more curious than threatened or threatening


    50. Two old large freighters moved slowly away from the periphery of the bone yard where they had sat like sleeping dragons for the last two years












































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    Synonyms for "periphery"

    fringe outer boundary periphery extremity frontier confine limit end outpost border

    "periphery" definitions

    the outside boundary or surface of something