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  • This second step is purely a fallacy of equivocation, based not on the Greek but on ambiguities in the English word "sphere."

    Mythicist Misunderstanding James F. McGrath 2010

  • If she's exciting and upbeat, then we're going to be in that kind of sphere.

    The Married Male Mind 2007

  • Even from the noblest man, the woman of sensitive personality to-day feels an undercurrent as of surprised congratulation when she has anything to say worth his serious attention outside that department of life supposed to belong to her "sphere."

    Married Love: or, Love in Marriage 1918

  • They are handed over to her as a matter of course, and on the assumption that they enter into what is commonly known as her "sphere."

    Marriage as a Trade 1909

  • Till then Serbia was a petty Balkan state whose history had been punctuated by political murder, who had been aided from time to time by Russia, but quite as often by Austria, and who had usually been recognized as part of the Austrian "sphere."

    Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

  • And so with a reluctant farewell to Lovely Woman, I humbly withdraw from her presence and hasten to overtake the receding periphery of her "sphere."

    The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878

  • This image has a sense of depth as well as the same geometrical accuracy as the big "sphere."

    The Guardian World News Jonathan Jones 2010

  • This image has a sense of depth as well as the same geometrical accuracy as the big "sphere."

    The Guardian World News Jonathan Jones 2010

  • This image has a sense of depth as well as the same geometrical accuracy as the big "sphere."

    The Guardian World News Jonathan Jones 2010

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