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Usage examples of increment.

In quick succession she activated wingtip fences and leading-edge slats, dropped the first increment of flaps, and armed hover blasters.

And then Hala jerked back, and her feet left the ground in small levitating increments until Mathew stared up, slack-jawed, at the soles of her feet.

The other is the Spencerian way, by functional increment, that is to say, by the effect of increased use and constant exposure to varying circumstances during conscious life.

The other is the Spencerian way, by functional increment, that is to say by the effect of increased use and constant exposure to varying circumstances during conscious life.

Then you noticed the tiny orange jewelAlpha Centauri A's somewhat cooler companion about three billion miles awayoverhead, adding its own increment to the glorious daylight.

When she was about a thousand feet above the ground - it was hard to tell from looking outside, and she had no idea about the increments on the cockpit indicators - she used the antigravity control.

As the rope jerked back toward her in quarter-inch increments, she planted her feet firmly against the concrete and willed her legs to straighten.

Swearing softly, Cassie rolled it down to reveal in increments the face of her husband, Mark.

Then, tightening or loosening his facial muscles one by one in small increments, it little by little expunged the frozen look of suffering from his face.

These had been all white, meaning unwholesomely rich in greens and blues and carmines, and very pallid to begin with, earning slow increments of honey and ultimate toffee as the sun slowly chewed them.

Now that which is of divine birth has a period which is contained in a perfect number, but the period of human birth is comprehended in a number in which first increments by involution and evolution (or squared and cubed) obtaining three intervals and four terms of like and unlike, waxing and waning numbers, make all the terms commensurable and agreeable to one another.

At this height," two inches above the knee, "I killed a lioness, stabbing her with my assegai when she attacked my herd-" Patiently Craig heard out the tale as it rose in small increments to shoulder height and Shadrach ended, "And you dare to ask me what I know about cattle!

Eddie hadn't had a raise in seventy-six years, and it still irritated him that the BBChan personnel department had decided that he wasn't entitled to service increments because he'd been in cryosuspension for most of that time.

She turned herself around, moving in small, cautious increments and breathing deeply so that she would not whimper from the pain emanating from those parts of her that were most tender and vulnerable and yet had been most viciously depredated by her captors.

If sometimes all he could do was flush a cherry bomb down a public toilet, he would advance chaos by that tiny increment while he awaited opportunities to do greater damage.