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Usage examples of polar.

The Polar Shift is due now as it moves to its new position for the Aquarian Age.

Separated by three flights of stairs from his nurse, laid to rest each night under the pelt of a polar bear which the Basher had shot in Alaska, Quin had gone to bed in terror -yet even then he would not have changed his eyrie for the world.

He stood there, the parchment in his mittened hands, baying at the polar moon.

Alexanders, winter capes, Bornholm hunting frocks, underwear for polar explorers, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Seated at the same table as herself was a skilful sailor, using logarithms, secants and cosecants, polar distances and hour angles, as if he were in some university class-room.

He sang a kayak-making song, customarily sung to the leather, wood and sinew, with which he worked, that it not betray him in the polar sea.

Life lay emerald on either side of the Flone, where it ran majestically down from the north polar cap.

As for the white shark, the white gliding ghostliness of repose in that creature, when beheld in his ordinary moods, strangely tallies with the same quality in the Polar quadruped.

But in the midst of this snow-storm, as terrible as if it had been produced in some polar country, neither Cyrus Harding nor his companions could, notwithstanding their wish for it, venture forth, and they remained shut up for five days, from the 20th to the 25th of August.

First commissioned in the 1960s as one of three dozen sophisticated, ultra quiet attack submarines, the Hawkbill had eventually been assigned to polar patrols and defense activities.

Respondent states, it is not contested, that when Helion beamed his brain information out from his body on the Solar Array to the Mercury Polar Station, the solar storms garbled the signal.

FIRST VOICE Now, in her iceberg-white, holily laundered crinoline nightgown, under virtuous polar sheets, in her spruced and scoured dust-defying bedroom in trig and trim Bay View, a house for paying guests, at the top of the town, Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard widow, twice, of Mr Ogmore, linoleum, retired, and Mr Pritchard, failed bookmaker, who maddened by besoming, swabbing and scrubbing, the voice of the vacuum-cleaner and the fume of polish, ironically swallowed disinfectant, fidgets in her rinsed sleep, wakes in a dream, and nudges in the ribs dead Mr Ogmore, dead Mr Pritchard, ghostly on either side.

Polar, for one, seemed untouched by the inbreeding weakness this small colony had to fight so rigorously.

Pointer said something about isobars, the staff-captain replied serenely that he did not expect to find any polar bears in these latitudes.

The monitor to one side glowed to life, presenting a series of Xs in order-the polar view of paired huiran s in metap chromosome i hase of the mitotic process.