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  • They slept far from water or any landmark familiar to him.†   (source)
  • As a result, the Count would have had to strain to pick out other familiar landmarks as the van moved along.†   (source)
  • I followed the map to a tee, pacing my steps, trying to identify the landmarks that my squad leader had highlighted.†   (source)
  • Back when Halliday was still running the company, GSS had won the right to keep every OASIS user's identity private in a landmark Supreme Court ruling.†   (source)
  • The original Ruby Pier entrance had been something of a landmark, a giant arching structure based on a historic French temple, with fluted columns and a coved dome at the top.†   (source)
  • The French government taxes him at absurd rates because he bought a historic landmark.†   (source)
  • Soon, a familiar landmark rose above the industrial wasteland.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until 1967 that the United States Supreme Court finally struck down anti-miscegenation statutes in Loving v. Virginia, but restrictions on interracial marriage persisted even after that landmark ruling.†   (source)
  • Savannah Landmark is nothing but an ego trip.†   (source)
  • It is tall and white-columned, appropriately azalea-ed. A gold plaque declares it a historical landmark.†   (source)
  • We wandered about all the way to the Cotton Tree, the national symbol of Sierra Leone and the landmark of the capital.†   (source)
  • He imagines two observers in a field pacing out the distance between them, then leveling their eyes on a far-off landmark: a sailing ship or a smokestack.†   (source)
  • The only landmark she recognised was The Aplu Theater, where she'd seen performances by the Merry Pretenders, an acting troupe favored by her parents.†   (source)
  • The computer has detailed maps, so I figured I could navigate by landmarks.†   (source)
  • He points out landmarks as we pass, explaining what seems like every statue and street corner.†   (source)
  • Amazingly, the ceremonies for all the New Jersey Schools of Dentistry and Medicine were held at the same time and at the same place, so the three doctors could be together for this landmark moment as well.†   (source)
  • The only real landmarks were bizarre and colorful lawn ornaments, of which Circle Village was a veritable open-air museum.†   (source)
  • But now those landmarks in their courtship have faded, have given way to the occasion they are now celebrating.†   (source)
  • As a plaque beside their front door proclaimed, Radar's house was an officially registered Santa Landmark according to the Society for Christmas.†   (source)
  • The constancy of the place brought back a flood of memories, and she felt her insides tighten as one by one she recognized landmarks she'd long since forgotten.†   (source)
  • Every decade has had its landmark moments in HeLa research, and the connection between HPV and cervical cancer was only one of several in the eighties.†   (source)
  • A patchwork of cities glowed in the valley below, and far to the west, over a line of rolling hills, she saw a familiar landmark rising from a sea of fog.†   (source)
  • Though we'd been driving a while, there were no landmarks, and it was impossible to say where we were going or in which direction.†   (source)
  • This was the first, last, and only landmark that he pointed out.†   (source)
  • The system would be based on identifiable landmarks, on cities and towns, rather than dodgy maps.†   (source)
  • A landmark moment for Artemis Fowl.†   (source)
  • The only landmarks were the smashed shack and the mountain.†   (source)
  • The wrought-iron fence held a plaque declaring that this was a San Francisco landmark, erected as an orphanage after the Great Earthquake.†   (source)
  • Much of the rubble had tumbled into the pits, basements, and passages which had lain beneath the three-century-old landmark.†   (source)
  • I found my landmark, the local post office, pulled in behind the building, and parked.†   (source)
  • One of the few landmarks in town.†   (source)
  • Herold spotted a familiar-looking landmark: Blossom Point, at the mouth of a creek that ran north.†   (source)
  • During the train journey to Englewood, Holmes pointed out landmarks: the skyscrapers of the city, the Chicago River, the stockyards.†   (source)
  • Vladimir Propp, in his landmark study of folktales back in the 1920s, Morphology of the Folktale, separates the story of the folk quester into thirty or so separate steps.†   (source)
  • No exteriors of the houses, no addresses or street signs or landmarks.†   (source)
  • I walked up toward the river, trying to pick out specific landmarks, but all I recognized was a small rise where Jimmy Cross had set up his command post that night.†   (source)
  • It was the face of a woman who has come momentarily untethered from all of the vital positions and landmarks of her life, a woman who has forgotten not only the memory she was in the process of recounting but memory itself.†   (source)
  • Without landmarks, I'm geographically dyslexic.†   (source)
  • He is known as Old Man Treadwell, as if he were a landmark, a rock format ion or brooding swamp.†   (source)
  • Even in the rain he could make out the landmarks, looking surprisingly the way the books had pictured them—the Lee Mansion high on the hill, the bridge, and twice around the circle, so he could get a good look at Abraham Lincoln looking out across the city, the White House and the Monument and at the other end the Capitol.†   (source)
  • It is difficult to get lost in Paris, so long as you know where the river Seine is you can usually see one or more of the great landmarks, such as the Eiffel Tower, Sacr -Coeur or Notre Dame but somehow I'd managed to do it.†   (source)
  • For the first twenty or so minutes, I would say we exchanged the sort of remarks strangers might; she inquired politely about my journey thus far, how I was enjoying my holiday, which towns and landmarks I had visited and so on.†   (source)
  • Over two hundred feet from one bank to another, and arching more than sixty feet at its peak, Stonebridge had more stories and legends surrounding it than any other University landmark.†   (source)
  • I half run back to the Los Angeles Times Building, a downtown landmark that squats on the better part of one square block kitty-corner from City Hall.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure what the point of the landmark was except to serve as a vague symbol of the middle of the country: You Are Here.†   (source)
  • When they arrived at production headquarters at the GulfStream Hotel, a faded tourist landmark from an earlier era overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway, Marley immediately impressed the crew by jumping out of the truck and tearing around the parking lot in random patterns as if expecting the aerial bombing to commence at any moment.†   (source)
  • He had good landmarks between the window of the upper floor of the haberdashery and the door of the tanning salon.†   (source)
  • But now the road was gone, and every landmark.†   (source)
  • His grandfather, a man of strong sentiment and wild impulse, who let nothing go without a roar, had flexed his muscles in favour of this vanishing landmark, and with a dozen handymen had toted a good forty feet of the walk into the alley where it had lain like the skeleton of some indefinable monster through the years, baked by sun, lushly rotted by rains.†   (source)
  • In 1949, the ANC launched a landmark effort to turn itself into a truly mass organization.†   (source)
  • Milam Park, surrounded by the neat houses of old Clarkston, was one of the few defining landmarks of the town, and seeing its pristine fields overrun with soccer players would be an alarming sign for some in town.†   (source)
  • This same argument was made, perhaps more explicitly, in the 1920s in a landmark set of experiments by two New York-based researchers, Hugh Hartshorne and M. A. May.†   (source)
  • Luckily, I had someone around who knew that area, could recognize the landmarks, and knew the best road out.†   (source)
  • I could remember hardly any exact details from that night, in the way of landmarks, and of course there were precious few there to begin with.†   (source)
  • The tall spires of churches, the Courthouse dome, the stately blocks that were the pride of the city and the admiration of visitors, the noted landmarks …. everything had disappeared.†   (source)
  • He looked at the streambank and the trees around him, as if for landmarks, as if there were some hope that he might return to the place to search again.†   (source)
  • The flight crew outdid itself, telling their passengers the history of every landmark, town, village, interstate highway, and truck stop on the flight route, proclaiming through the interpreter the wish of all Americans for peaceful, friendly relations with the Soviet Union, expressing the professional admiration of the U.S. Air Force for the courage of the Soviet seamen, and mourning the deaths of the officers who had courageously lingered behind, allowing their men to go first.†   (source)
  • Ceunon, with its steep, many-layered roofs and sculptures of dragon heads, was their next landmark of note, and soon afterward, the leading edge of Du Weldenvarden appeared, the pines tall and strong.†   (source)
  • The only landmarks were shadows, low shadows, mostly made by chaparral and mesquite.†   (source)
  • For all our skepticism about laws, this one, like the landmark 2000 legislation that required annual reports about human trafficking abroad, would have a real if incremental impact around the world.†   (source)
  • Measurements had been done to all relevant landmarks and other objects in the rooms.†   (source)
  • He pointed out a landmark at the bottom of this ankle-twisting obstacle course.†   (source)
  • He spent an hour scrambling up a slope of scree, hoping for a vantage point above the boulders and icebergs, a place where he might snare the landmark he was looking for, the great rocky promontory of Urdukas, which thrust out onto the Baltoro like a massive fist, and haul himself back toward the trail.†   (source)
  • Some of the city legislators, whose concern for appropriate names and the maintenance of the city's landmarks was the principal part of their political life, saw to it that "Doctor Street" was never used in any official capacity.†   (source)
  • My first landmark would be the elves' Forest.†   (source)
  • It was shapeless and yet significant: like a landmark, or a guarding finger, or more like a warning.†   (source)
  • The landmarks were gone.†   (source)
  • Jenks saw a landmark he recognized.†   (source)
  • HE PARKED near the towering Lion of Judah, a landmark for the area near the railway station.†   (source)
  • She walks quickly—without even a faint hint of the limp she had when she left—and purposefully, like New Yorkers do, pointing out landmarks here and there like a professional tour guide.†   (source)
  • Of course, any use of a nuclear weapon would be a landmark recorded in the histories.†   (source)
  • He palpated the abdomen, feeling for the landmarks to begin his incision.†   (source)
  • All fortifications were clearly marked, all landmarks neatly labeled, including "Mount Whoredom," Boston's red-light district.†   (source)
  • He was within three miles of the island, a shrubbed volcanic intrusion on the water his landmark.†   (source)
  • Maybe we're supposed to go all the way to the first landmark,I pointed out.†   (source)
  • The City Hall subway station had been out of use since 1945, though the city still kept it in order as a landmark; the 6 train ran through it on occasion to make a turnaround, but no one ever stood on this platform.†   (source)
  • From the door of the helicopter, I started to make out landmarks I recognized from studying satellite images of the area during our weeks of training.†   (source)
  • There were no landmarks, nothing but a few burned-out and abandoned farmhouses.†   (source)
  • Towering above the tents to a height of forty feet, the trebuchets were the siege camp's chief landmarks.†   (source)
  • It attempts to give to an English-reading public a bird's-eye view of how Dresden came to look as it does, architecturally; of how it expanded musically, through the genius of a few men, to its present bloom; and it calls attention to certain permanent landmarks in art that make its Gallery the resort of those seeking lasting impressions.†   (source)
  • And one day Charlie asked Deo to meet him at the New York Public Library, the landmark branch, the one with the carved stone lions out front.†   (source)
  • This was a new place with no signs or landmarks.†   (source)
  • Since the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling by the Supreme Court, which ordered that schools be integrated, tension between whites and blacks in the South has reached an all-time high, and events such as the murder of Emmett Till are no longer an exception.†   (source)
  • She did not know for how many miles the memory of the sound of words seemed like a small landmark rolling away into the distance, then vanishing.†   (source)
  • Landmarks, the sun.†   (source)
  • Ann Arbor, an hour from Detroit, was the scene of what became a landmark court case about prejudice against Black English.†   (source)
  • A tall plinth or landmark in Ile-Ife, considered to be the ancestral home of the Yoruba.†   (source)
  • Certainly the valley where the dwarves now made their home did not resemble any natural landmark.†   (source)
  • It was not only an astrogation landmark, on every Luna-jump chart, but was so big it could be photographed or seen by eye from Terra with not-large telescope.†   (source)
  • The Group, as it was known informally, had been formed six years earlier, in the aftermath of a jihadist suicide bombing outside a landmark restaurant on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées.†   (source)
  • Then models, to scale, of various notable buildings, ships and landmarks.†   (source)
  • This was my first time in the Quarter, so I didn't know any landmarks, nor would I have noticed any.†   (source)
  • How well he had come to know the landmarks; the turn at Broken Island.†   (source)
  • BOAR'S HEAD INN, read the Old English letters around the china rim, AN AMERICAN LANDMARK.†   (source)
  • Like distant landmarks you are approaching, cause and effect begin to align themselves, draw closer together.†   (source)
  • They load themselves with samples, as much as they can carry, and they mark the place in their minds by landmarks all around.†   (source)
  • He'd been little more than a toddler then; but small as he was his memory and instinct had been at work, recording landmarks, storing up information that might be of use for the future - information that was proving invaluable now.†   (source)
  • She had apparently spotted some landmark.†   (source)
  • I went from bank to bank, blind as a shorn Samson, searching for landmarks that would set my course aright.†   (source)
  • Only a few miles away was the Verde River, all the peaks mentioned as landmarks were nearby.†   (source)
  • There, far, far among thick-wooded landmarks, On this night, so vernal and so white, The nightingales roll and trill their paeans, Filling with rumbling the city's wooded limits.†   (source)
  • I mean maybe soon you'll recognize landmarks and set us all straight again.†   (source)
  • Arguing that toxic and hazardous waste facilities were located near minority and low-income neighborhoods in disproportionate numbers, Solis successfully marshaled support for the landmark bill.†   (source)
  • The church steeple is a convenient landmark. Move towards it and you'll know your approaching your destination.
    landmark = something easily recognized
  • No vehicles near landmark buildings anymore.†   (source)
  • Mariam concentrated on these things, these landmarks.†   (source)
  • You security guys let a sword-swinging lunatic inside a national landmark?†   (source)
  • Lee's Savannah Landmark project may be unrealistically expensive.†   (source)
  • We meet at Canter's Deli, a landmark in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • She opens up the book to regard the streets and the landmarks she once knew.†   (source)
  • The second landmark was that call from Amy.†   (source)
  • The house on Gramercy became a historic landmark.†   (source)
  • The northwest rim has a smaller crater on it, and that's the landmark I'll be looking for.†   (source)
  • T: Then we have arrived at the second landmark, haven't we?†   (source)
  • He didn't start Savannah Landmark in the Victorian district until something like five years later.†   (source)
  • I can only see major landmarks, like craters 50 kilometers across.†   (source)
  • You were nine years old at the first landmark and fourteen at the second.†   (source)
  • I'll need to navigate with landmarks as well as latitude and longitude.†   (source)
  • But Pathfinder was an easy trip compared to this, and I had plenty of landmarks to navigate by.†   (source)
  • Yeah, let's all go together, give Iggy some landmarks.†   (source)
  • The Athena Parthenos was the tallest landmark for miles around.†   (source)
  • Squinting, I shifted from side to side in my cage, looking for landmarks.†   (source)
  • There are landmarks and signposts for those who know what to look for.†   (source)
  • Even more unnerving was the darkness ahead—no shoreline, no landmarks, no visibility at all.†   (source)
  • None of the landmarks we passed looked familiar to her.†   (source)
  • If he survived he would need the illumination of the landmark.†   (source)
  • Fang smoothed the map out on the slatted bench in front of them and started looking for landmarks.†   (source)
  • I knew how close I was, all the landmarks.†   (source)
  • ATHOUGH FEW PEOPLE will remember June 3, 1993, it was a landmark in South African history.†   (source)
  • Once in a while Old Hugh might point out a landmark, but he was shy about offering advice.†   (source)
  • It's a national landmark; there are signs everywhere.†   (source)
  • For all I knew, it was a landmark for taxis.†   (source)
  • Pull back the view and the familiar landmarks of Clarkston grow indistinct.†   (source)
  • That's a landmark change from a decade or two ago.†   (source)
  • My mother and Lydia, topless in France-the landmarks were easier.†   (source)
  • As each half hour passed and landmarks were spotted, Jason understood that time was his enemy.†   (source)
  • I used natural landmarks from the map to locate where the original Snyder cellar might have been.†   (source)
  • They named the buildings at Voyageur after local landmarks—lakes, towns, rivers, forests.†   (source)
  • Known also as the Kennedy Mansion, it was a famous New York landmark.†   (source)
  • He had used a boulder as a landmark, and the boulder was where it should be--but not the horse.†   (source)
  • The road I drove slanted ever upward, and I began to recognize the landmarks of the area; I knew that in a few minutes I'd pass Savannah's parents' house.†   (source)
  • They're tourists, from Japan it looks like, a trade delegation perhaps, on a tour of the historic landmarks or out for local color.†   (source)
  • It was a natural landmark where campers often rendezvoused on hunting expeditions, but now there was nobody around.†   (source)
  • When he got out of the subway, he looked up and found his landmark: the two silver buildings jutting into the sky.†   (source)
  • In the morning, on the way up, I'd made a point of continually Studying the route on this part of the mountain, frequently looking down to pick out landmarks that would be helpful on the descent, compulsively memorizing the terrain: "Remember to turn left at the buttress that looks like a ship's prow.†   (source)
  • As their mistress addressed Arkady at the front desk, they tugged every which way, sniffing about for familiar landmarks.†   (source)
  • "I can't see any landmarks in this dark, but in the morning this will show us what direction it was in."†   (source)
  • He hadn't been here for years, not since writing a piece about it for a kids' magazine in hopes of generating some excitement among young Americans to come see this amazing landmark.†   (source)
  • When I said I had no idea where we were, he cursed and pulled a succession of squealing U-turns, spitting arcs of tobacco juice from his window as I scanned the neighborhood for a familiar landmark.†   (source)
  • As he continued east on F, he approached two of Washington's greatest landmarks: to the left, the huge marble Patent Office.†   (source)
  • "My papa," Rudy informed her, and they were soon among a crowd of various-sized Steiners, each waving or blowing kisses at their father or simply standing and nodding hello (in the case of the oldest ones), then moving on, toward the final landmark before school.†   (source)
  • In a landmark ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice—that is, evidence of actual knowledge on the part of the publisher that a statement is false.†   (source)
  • As it was, she died when I was a kid; and though everything that's happened to me since then is thoroughly my own fault, still when I lost her I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life.†   (source)
  • "Landmark," I said.†   (source)
  • Her nature became his landmark-what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his Greenwich Standard… Sol paused to access the definition of Greenwich Standard, and then he read on.†   (source)
  • It was carved with elaborate scenes of death and destruction, pictures of the gods being trodden under chariots, temples and famous world landmarks being smashed and burned.†   (source)
  • The gate became a landmark that endured into the twenty-first century, long after the last hog crossed to eternity over the great wooden ramp called the Bridge of Sighs.†   (source)
  • Cartographers create fictional landmarks, streets, and municipalities and place them obscurely into their maps.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were still very wild and she was turning her head from side to side, trying to work out where the stationary car was taking her, looking for familiar landmarks along the imaginary route.†   (source)
  • …off the rickshaw coolies clustered near the dock and walked all the way from the naval base, following the scant directions he'd been given, through the crowds in the Kweng Li market square, past the vendors selling roosters in crude rattan crates and pigs' heads and poisonous-looking fish lying blue and gutted and gaping on racks, past gray octopi in glass jars, past old women hawking kimchee and bulgoki, until he crossed the Tong Gang on the Bridge of Woes, the last landmark he knew.†   (source)
  • Slowly Marie-Laure's brain becomes a three-dimensional map in which exist glowing landmarks: a thick plane tree in the Place aux Herbes; nine potted topiaries outside the Hotel Continental; six stairs up a passageway called the rue du Connetable.†   (source)
  • I want to see Sesame Street," Sonia had said, believing that it was an actual landmark in the city, and she had cried when Gogol had laughed at her, saying it didn't exist.†   (source)
  • They've improved the lives of hundreds of people with mental illness and I've just stumbled into the game, parading my talented musician across the pages of the Los Angeles Times and trying to pass myself off as an authority to Darrell Steinberg, the godfather of the landmark proposition that created the windfall for mental health funding.†   (source)
  • Politely, I sat and listened to their conversation: friends in common, gallery owners and art collectors, the Rakers and the Rehnbergs, the Fawcetts and the Vogels and the Mildebergers and Depews, on to vanished New York landmarks, the closing of Lutece, La Caravelle, Café des Artistes, what would your mother have thought, Theodore, she loved Cafe des Artistes.†   (source)
  • Though he didn't mind seeing that so many of the old landmarks had disappeared, he was greatly relieved to find that the inn at the edge of town was still there.†   (source)
  • With a third trial in the offing, Jim Williams's case was approaching landmark status and attracting attention well beyond Savannah.†   (source)
  • I launched a nonprofit organization called the Savannah Landmark Rehabilitation Project, which has been a triumph, because the board includes everybody—black, white, you name it, rich and poor.†   (source)
  • She was a Quincy, the daughter of old John Quincy, whose big hilltop homestead, known as Mount Wollaston, was a Braintree landmark.†   (source)
  • Within the harbor's black calm, Max spied Brigit's Vigil, a stony landmark rumored to be the very spot where Bram's grieving wife had waded out to sea.†   (source)
  • There had to be a place where he seemed more real than among all the familiar landmarks that were crowded with other human memories.†   (source)
  • He stopped at the department store to buy a map and a packet of postcards featuring the landmarks of Boone Creek, and before long, he was making his way along a winding road that led out of town.†   (source)
  • Far below, to the left, where the high school parking lot was-the ring of sodium arc lamps made it a sure landmark, although the school building itself was invisible in the dark-a spark glowed as if God had struck a flint-and-steel.†   (source)
  • Though there'd been no obvious landmarks in the background—no picture of Monticello indicating Virginia, for instance, no WELCOME TO IOWA! sign in the distance—there had been information.†   (source)
  • The photographs themselves showed no landmarks, and after a cursory glance through them, Jennifer wondered how to find out more about her.†   (source)
  • The rue Sarrasin was so ancient that in another city it might have been designated as a landmark thoroughfare, a wide brick alley connecting streets built centuries later.†   (source)
  • There were no landmarks that she could see except the Milky Way, which ran in the direction they were walking.†   (source)
  • It seemed to be a landmark of sorts; other roads converged upon the hill, and Max spied something rocking in the wind at its. crest.†   (source)
  • George Metesky was the Mad Bomber of the 1940s and 1950s, famous for setting off a series of blasts at New York landmarks.†   (source)
  • My mother and I had a great time; my father did most of the driving, and the two of us hung out, talking and listening to the radio, sharing clothes, making up songs and jokes as state lines and landmarks passed by.†   (source)
  • Though Lincoln heard the story from Grant yesterday, he is keen to hear more about this landmark event.†   (source)
  • She recognized landmarks Jason had told her about—the hippodrome, the coliseum, the temples and parks, the neighborhood of Seven Hills with its winding streets, colorful villas, and flowering gardens.†   (source)
  • He'd grown up in this part of the world, on a small farm outside Williamston, and the landmarks here were familiar to him.†   (source)
  • I couldn't picture her anywhere there, except standing in front of famous landmarks from my history books.†   (source)
  • A landmark for generations to come.†   (source)
  • She tried to remember landmarks as they rode placidly along the hard path, through the deep green woods, along the dark hum of the river.†   (source)
  • One by one, he began to recognize landmarks from his childhood, and in the silence of the car he wondered who he might have become had 'Rick and Amanda never entered his life.†   (source)
  • In short, what Andrews' defenders, a team composed of Menninger Clinic psychiatrists and two first-class attorneys, hoped to achieve was a victory of legal-landmark stature.†   (source)
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