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Usage examples of atlas.

Near the foot-bridge that stretched over the grey tops of the Atlas cedars, stood a white truncated pyramid of porcelain-like aplite from the River Lualaba, surmounted by the statue of a worker of an age long past.

Atlas clinic, she felt she would pass for a barbie as long as she kept her clothes on.

International Cloud Atlas reveals clouds called: fibratus, uncinus, spissatus, castellanus, floccus, stratiformus, nebutosus, lenticularis, fractus, humilis, mediocris, congestus, calvus, and capillatus.

Mount Atlas, to satiate their revenge on the polished tyrants, who had injuriously expelled them from the native sovereignty of the land.

While Hercules Atlas poured two cups full of wine, Sulla loosened the strings holding the mouth of the purse shut, and deftly palmed a plump screw of paper he fished out of its interior.

It is possible that these osteological atlases appealed to my interest in building things, which did not show itself until later.

Spellbinder, Soliloquy, Atlas, Logjam, Caribou, Ludwig, Samba, Mambo, Rhumba, Chatterley, Vladimir, Lava, Bliss, Torquemada, Flint, Devil-May-Care, Whitewater, Winter Morning, Vernal, Equinox, Mesa, Calliope, Grandstand, Olivia!

He was not a particularly tall man, standing a half a head shorter than myself, but he was muscular and broad of sholder, a miniature Atlas.

It was from Shu that the Greeks derived their representations, and perhaps their myth of Atlas.

Mister Monday and Sneezer had talked about, who he presumed was also the giver of the Atlas.

He spoke of exotica they had never seen, tomes which were nothing but names in the Dictionary: Encyclopedias, Thesauruses, Atlases, Alamancs.

Ralfs of various degrees of obesity they snake-danced, past a 300 pound weakling in a leopard-skin bathing suit masquerading as Charles Atlas they shoved, between the guy in the tinfoil robot suit and a girl in long brown flasher raincoat that looked like it had served as a kleenex for a herd of elephants with eyes looked like she bit the heads off live kittens, through an assortment of ninjas, monsters, Martian drag queens and whatever, and down the stairs to the basement.

Schriever, a former chief of the Air Force Systems Command, who developed the Titan, Thor, Atlas and Minuteman rockets.

I left him, Clive Paternoster fetched his old atlas of the British Isles down from the bookcase.

Before I left him, Clive Paternoster fetched his old atlas of the British Isles down from the bookcase.