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Examples
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If trajectory steering is so precise now, wouldn't capsules also have the complicating factor of where and when to jettison the service module inside the entry corridore so it doesn't land in a school yard or something?
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If, instead of the areas and iron rails, which seem to be of very little use, there had been a corridore with arcades all round, as in Covent-garden, the appearance of the whole would have been more magnificent and striking; those arcades would have afforded an agreeable covered walk, and sheltered the poor chairmen and their carriages from the rain, which is here almost perpetual.
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At one corner of the corridore, there are the pictures of three bodies represented in the three different stages of putrefaction which they undergo when laid in this composition.
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At the other end of the corridore, there is a range of antient sepulchral stones ornamented with basso-relievo brought hither from different parts by the Pisan Fleets in the course of their expeditions.
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Within-side there is a spacious corridore round the whole space, which is a noble walk for a contemplative philosopher.
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At this time, the troops attached to the viceroy fired a few musket-shots, from the corridore of the palace, and began to extend themselves in front of the main gate.
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But when the watchman, led by the smell, entered his cell, there was no pipe to be found; only a deeply injured man complaining that "somebody, had been smokin 'outside, and it had blowed into his cell through the door-winder from the corridore, and p'isoned the atmosphere.
The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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[Footnote 251: This unexplained word probably signifies a corridore, or covered gallery.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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