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  • He snapped the telescopics down and as he bent once more to his task he caught a fleeting glimpse of a Marine squad floating in free fall around their a.p. weapon, its barrel snouting well tracked forward of the line of flight of the cruiser.

    Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

  • He would know that there would be a.p. weapons but he'd already destroyed one Marine squad and would be feeling confident.

    Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

  • He saw the Marine a.p. squad vanish into spinning erratically-trajectoried gobs.

    Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

  • The caliber outweighed the Marine a.p. weapons as a seventy-five overshadowed a brig.

    Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

  • The guard marines were still on duty, lounging watch­fully at the rear, an a.p. gun set up on a heavy tripod aimed directly at the box door.

    Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

  • Next to them their piled a.p. weapons frowned out men­acingly on the scurrying activity.

    Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

  • They can always be readily demonstrated by probing out from the body cavity, in the direction indicated by the arrow (a.p.) in

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • The clear club-shaped area around the embryo (a.p.) is the area pellucida; the larger area without this is the area opaca

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • These are the abdominal pores (a.p.) on either side of the cloaca in either sex.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • {Figure 3, in Second Edition.} a.p., abdominal pore. aur., - auricle - [atrium] of heart. b.d., bile duct.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

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