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Usage examples of marginal.

An allegorical interpretation, in the form, perhaps, of a marginal note, invaded the text of the Latin Bibles, which were renewed and corrected in a dark period of ten centuries.

One would have to assume, then, that these verses are a scribal alteration of the text, originally made, perhaps, as a marginal note and then eventually, at an early stage of the copying of 1 Corinthians, placed in the text itself.

Rich in data, but low on coherent identity, Hal projects his own marginal selfhood and presents the other five occupants as disconnected faces and heads, trying to resolve themselves into their larger identities.

On a leaf bearing altogether 252 tentacles, the short ones on the disc, having green pedicels, were in number to the longer submarginal and marginal tentacles, having purple pedicels, as nine to sixteen.

It adopts the standard Aristophanic pattern in which an unofficial hero, a marginal member of society, undertakes an illegitimate and metaphoric plot by virtue of which he will not only triumph personally but perversely correct the central social problem that regular, non-comedic society has been unable to solve.

No one in the meeting had the heart to suggest that Nostrildamus might see the future differently if the child had been white and middle-class, instead of a biracial girl from a marginal city neighborhood.

The other parts are but marginal borders to it, the magnificent region sloping West, from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, being the deepest and also the richest in undeveloped resources.

If the glands on the disc are repeatedly touched or brushed, although no object is left on them, the marginal tentacles curve inwards.

He had no way of knowing if Weslyn had simply met an ifrit, not even recognizing it, or was a marginal agent of the ifrits.

From the curving inwards of the two lobes, as they move towards each other, the straight marginal spikes intercross by their tips at first, and ultimately by their bases.

Not a luxury hotel, the place served mostly techs, those marginal donkeys whose parents had been able to afford only limited gene mods usually for appearance.

Why court disaster to secure possible Marginal savings when employing all of the forces at our disposal would cost little extra, secure considerable political and strategic benefit, and bring us as close to certain victory as we are likely to come?

All the upperclass spectators except Jim Struck are former Eschaton devotees, though Hal and Troeltsch were both marginal.

The richer parts of the countryside were inhabited and cultivated as they had always been, but scattered farmsteads like this one on more marginal land, farmed only when it had been necessary to pay Roman taxes, now lay abandoned.

On a leaf bearing altogether 252 tentacles, the short ones on the disc, having green pedicels, were in number to the longer submarginal and marginal tentacles, having purple pedicels, as nine to sixteen.