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bird's-eye .
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Examples
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Notwithstanding, this bird-eye view of the royal and political circles at the accession of the first of the Hanoverian monarchs is so valuable as to deserve inclusion in this work.
Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925
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The solid beams of the Canadian house are hewn out of columns of birch, as sound if not so fragrant as the cedar of Lebanon, and the furniture of the Canadian home is wrought of bird-eye maple, susceptible of the velvetest polish, and more beautiful, because more variagated, than walnut or mahogany.
The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 John Lesp��rance 1864
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Navigation option also featured Infiniti's "bird-eye view" monitor that actually had a horizon and fluffy little clouds with a blue-sky backdrop.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed TED LATURNUS 2011
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Then viewing, from the Pisgah of his pulpit, the free, moral, happy, flourishing, and glorious state of France, as in a bird-eye landscape of
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Sugano accompanied Yellin and other military families on their visit to the top of Mt. Suribachi, where visitors get a bird-eye view of the 8-square-mile island.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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MEDIA - gives a bird-eye view to the hostage taker of all happenings outside the bus.
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Bing Videomap directions - Microsoft has been hard at work releasing Bing 2.0, and with that came a new Maps application with streetside views, improved bird-eye views of buildings in your city, but Bing has demonstrated a new type of driving directions, using video to map your driving trips around the city.
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His enthufiafm kindles as he advances i and when he arrives at his peroration, it. is in a full blaze* Then viewing, from the Pifgah of his pulpit, the free, moral, happy, flourifhing, and glorious ftate of France, as in a bird-eye landfcape of a promifed land, he breaks out into the following rapture:
Reflections on the Revolution in France,: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London ... 1790
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Here’s a bird-eye view of what his website looks like right now, with the ad in context in terms of the rest of the page:
Thoughts on John Scalzi’s Test Ad on Whatever | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008
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* make appear the bird-eye view even if it was not initialy appearent when zooming
KDE-Apps.org Content 2009
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