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  • Mondas once shared the exact same orbit as Earth Prime-Time, always equi-distant from each other so that neither one was visible to the other in their night sky.

    Archive 2009-06-14 Toby O'B 2009

  • If you hold up a straight pole, with your eye to one end, it will seem extended to a length almost incredible. 10 Place a number of uniform and equi-distant marks on this pole, they will cause the same deception, and seem multiplied without end.

    On the Sublime and Beautiful 2007

  • Since every part of the sphere's interior was equi-distant to every other part, all were equal within its borders, even Pret-Klob.

    Lost And Found Foster, Alan Dean 2004

  • If all Hawaii, south of Waimea, were submerged to a depth of 8000 feet, three nearly equi-distant, dome-shaped volcanic islands would remain, the highest of which would have an altitude of 6000 feet.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Laredo and Reynosa are about equi-distant from Monterrey, so the consideration is where will you be going from the Texas border.

    bst road to texas from guadalajara, can u tell me 2001

  • And that's the role of the Press Secretary, to be equi-distant between two combatants in this adversarial relationship.

    Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1998

  • He said the Eastern Cape was an attractive area for investment as it was equi-distant to the major SA centres and had abundant natural resources.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • I noticed that the lower edge of the impost of the outer circle forms a level horizontal line in the heavens, equi-distant from the earth, to the person standing near the centre of the building, about 15 degrees above the horizon on all sides.

    Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

  • The size of each organ is estimated, not by feeling for bumps or depressions, but by measuring the length of the fibres of the brain from their common center in the _medulla oblongata_, at the head of the spinal column, and at a point equi-distant from the ears in the interior of the head.

    How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony William Windsor

  • Jigelli lies well outside the confines of the kingdom of Tunis, about equi-distant from Bougie and Cape Bougaroni, some forty miles from each.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

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