WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. It is credited by many of the elder zoologists with a certain vestigial docility acquired in a former state of seclusion, but naturalists of the postsusananthony period, having no knowledge of the seclusion, deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn be.
Ambrose Bierce
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This is just the beginning. There are several million tons in the general vicinity (of East Texas).
Joe Murray
It was straightforward. Our rule says the players can't leave the vicinity of the bench area. In this case Ron clearly came onto the floor.
Stu Jackson
It is not in our [India's] interest to have more nuclear powers in our vicinity.
Ram Madhav
They're in the same general vicinity ... there could be some synergies.
Michael Fowler
For mid-sized suppliers in particular, the setting up of an own production outlet in the vicinity of the final product manufacturer became a question of survival: They had to follow their big customers abroad.
Hans Reich
If you compared 'Harry Potter' to 'Star Wars,' you're probably in the same vicinity of expected revenue, you know, in the billion-dollar-plus range. And similar to 'Star Wars,' this is something that has been around for some time now and will be around for a long time in the future.
Sean Mcgowan
This dock ... is going to cost in the vicinity of $50,000. ... There is certainly an economic incentive that would put the brakes on this if he was not confident in his title.
David Ballou
It is their duty to protect humanitarian operations and civilians in their immediate vicinity.
Jemera Rone
On paper it's the best summer we've ever had. We're announcing 52 shows this week. I think we're going to have 10 or 15 more. Our first year (1998) we did 44 shows the whole year. This year we'll do in the vicinity of 250.
Chuck Morris
We believe it will reduce the number of birds that are seen on other lakes in the vicinity of Leech Lake. When they are harassed at one site, they can pick up and move considerable distances. And Lake Winnie is just a hop, skip and jump away from Leech Lake.
Lee Pfannmuller
He's the best receiver in the league from what I see. He's the kind of guy where you just got to throw the ball in his vicinity.
Jason Gibson
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving
We've learned a lot more about how X-rays are produced in the vicinity of black holes. We've learned a little about how they work, how they are born and how they live.
Andrew Weisskopf
In my view it would have been far worse for these pilots to turn away from victims in their vicinity in order to complete their stated mission as foreseen by commanders 100 miles away and out of communication with a growing crisis.
Pat Robertson
And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.
Terry Pratchett
If we find a migratory bird that's positive, what we would do is ... look for commercial operations, backyard operations that are in the vicinity of that find, and then we would do testing.
Andrea Morgan
In the vicinity of a year.
Mark Gwozdecky
If the vote was held today, we would get 190 Democrats and somewhere in the vicinity of 40-plus Republicans.
Sherrod Brown
Remember this is a proof-of-concept engineering mission, not a science mission. We really do have to learn how to operate in the vicinity of an asteroid if we are ever going to use them for space resources or if we are going to have a reliable capability to deflect a dangerous one.
Clark Chapman
They want it somewhere in the vicinity, as opposed to being in the middle of a cornfield and not available to them, ... For many companies, they're looking at accessibility both for their workers and for raw materials coming in and finished materials going out.
Susan Jackson
To date and going forward, relocation of the snails from Mount Augustus will cost us in the vicinity of ... NZ$2 million (US$1.2 million). That's $8,000 (US$4,900) a head.
Vicki Blyth
The [victim] lives in the vicinity, and there appears to be a pattern of some trouble and violence, which are causes for concern.
Justin Harmon
Vigilant in all parts of the country, and especially in the vicinity of potential terrorist targets.
Great Britain
He stabs her to death in the immediate vicinity of two toddlers, ... I ask you to hold him fully accountable.
Julie Mitchell
We really hit the state of Virginia hard, and we include Maryland and the Washington area in that same vicinity. If you're in Northern Virginia, it's just a stone's throw to Maryland and the D.C. area.
Jim Cavanaugh
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