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  • Maior produced and divided externally at omega and the hypotenuse of the rightangled triangle formed by the line alpha omega so produced and the line alpha delta of Ursa Maior.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Or the sense of relief I felt knowing that the police were there to tell the kids to be careful, although the attentions of a stranger toward my boy took a distant second place to my fear of a rental car parked at the corner and his father with his arm rightangled out the driver's side window, saying "Hey, buddy," in that rich, persuasive voice.

    Black and Blue Quindlen, Anna 1998

  • The recesses from which the blocks had been hacked were still plain to see and had left deep steps with rightangled profiles.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • At sea, septentrional, by night the polestar, located at the point of intersection of the right line from beta to alpha in Ursa Maior produced and divided externally at omega and the hypotenuse of the rightangled triangle formed by the line alpha omega so produced and the line alpha delta of Ursa Maior.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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