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Dacre looked out from the prison gate with his fixed, clear eyes, but the road was growing very short before him now, and still his glance went on beyond--beyond the company of soldiers standing thirty yards in front, the butts of their rifles resting on the ground John Dacre, you are found guilty of high treason to the people.

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  1. preposition On the far side of; past: Just beyond the fence.
  2. preposition Later than; after: beyond midnight.
  3. preposition To a degree that is past the understanding, reach, or scope of: an evil beyond remedy.
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  • And then right beyond -- there's usually a little chain there -- right beyond, they would see the kids being tutored. —  Dave Eggers' wish: Once Upon a School
  • Still farther beyond were the quarters for the laundresses, easily traced by the swinging clothes-lines in front, and dubbed for this reason "Suds Row." —  BOOTS AND SADDLES: OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER
  • The computer program of Rome could not offer what's most valuable about Rome (or anywhere): Rome as a medium for engaging life beyond one's personal, private perception - beyond, that is, one's control.
  • By the way you write it suggests to me Dwight Baker that your first language wasn't Merkin English beyond that I shall not go. —  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
  • The frontier of the zone is a rusty iron bridge spanning the Rutshuru river, beyond which is big game territory -- and Mai Mai infiltrators. —  Mail & Guardian Online
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  1. Middle English biyonde, from Old English begeondan : be, by; see by1 + geondan, on the far side of; see i- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English beyonde, beyende, etc., from Anglo-Saxon begeondan, from be, by, + geondan, from the further side, from geond, preposition, across, over, beyond (= Gothic (Moesogothic) jāins, yonder), + -an, adverb suffix: see be- and yon, yonder.
 

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