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  • One of these discs, at 168 centimeters above the floor, also reveals an ideal height for viewing the chamber. 44 Rotating on the center-point to face the northwest wall, we meet the gaze of Rhetoric, fastening us into the spatial orthography of the studiolo architecture.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • In the third period, Campoli upped the lead to 3-0 at 3: 59 on a center-point wrist shot.

    USATODAY.com 2008

  • Zednik tallied on a breakaway at 2: 01, pushing the puck past Miller's glove side, and Muir swept a shot from center-point 34 seconds later.

    USATODAY.com - Hockey - Buffalo vs. Washington 2006

  • Satan's goal came with 1: 32 left in the opening period, a right-post stuff after Sean Hill's slapper from center-point had trickled through Johnson.

    USATODAY.com - Hockey - N.Y. Islanders vs. Washington 2006

  • And that means everyone must accept their responsibility as an equal partner and center-point in a circle of Life of infinite radius.

    There's Something in the Air 2008

  • Thapsus, where he proceeded to build a fortified camp above a lake, to serve as a center-point for their operations, and also as a place of refuge.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • "Shields first, I think," she said, and with a nod from the Doctor, she invoked them, spreading them out as she had been taught from a center-point above Ellen's bed.

    The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • This is the Kanfa bridge - the center-point of the universe; the place where heaven and earth meet, where life and death collide. '

    The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

  • It is always necessary that the extremity of the wheel, E, and the center-point, T, shall be at the same height in order to have the divisions very accurate.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 Various

  • For man, even in so far as he is an object of the moral activity, the Indian has no concern; he has a higher love for nature, which stands nearer related to the nature-divinity, and constitutes the narrowest circle around the divine center-point.

    Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

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