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1. The bigger compasses are usually more accurate
2. compasses me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah yet rules with God, and is faithful with the saints
3. 12 It compasses the Heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the Most High have bended it
4. 14 And the border compasses it on the north side to Hannathon, and the outgoings of it are in the valley of Jiphthahel,
5. Also there were no compasses, barometers,
6. Tuning their AN/ARN-6 Radio Compasses, that looked like the WWII coffee grinders, to the proper station would allow the needle on the automatic direction finder (ADF) unit to point to the station
7. When all were rested, Jarek gave them maps and compasses and, after instruction, set them off exploring the rest of the property belonging to the cabin while he remained accessible in a clearing, and Zeno caught up on his studies in their room
8. A bale of Islamic Prayer Mats had been found, and many had inbuilt compasses to indicate the direction of Mecca
9. With so many moral compasses to choose from, liberals could not determine right from wrong
10. Finally, with both Nancy and Maryam satisfied that the designated section leaders had the correct heading set on their compasses and knew where they were and where they were going, the Afghan women lined up and turned towards the Mecca before kneeling for the evening prayers
11. their internal compasses through the world and avoided the temptations
12. compasses, and the desire to conquer the world bore
13. The belief that a few should take over the thinking of many and decide for all the way things would be, based off of their own screwed up moral compasses justified by the excuse that the majority of society or at least those that mattered most to them would benefit and that the sacrifice of those who wouldn’t was acceptable
14. Elfric was bent over the tracing floor, drawing with a pair of compasses – on a fresh layer of plaster
15. 32 SHIP’S COMPASSES AND METAL INTERFERENCE: See A
16. The Speculum resembl’d a Pair of Compasses or, indeed, Calipers
17. I think I might be doomed to live in the room under my mother’s until I stab myself with a pair of compasses
18. After that they took his right hand, placed it on something, and told him to hold a pair of compasses to his left breast with the other hand and to repeat after someone who read aloud an oath of fidelity to the laws of the Order
19. "Nickel tablets, dime tablets, notebooks, erasers, water colors, rulers, compasses, a hundred thousand of them!"
20. " "What then?" "I'm going to my timber-yard to get my compasses
21. Threw our compasses off
22. "There's the thing ruined our compasses
23. ‘There’s the thing ruined our compasses
24. “There’s the thing ruined our compasses
25. A few yards down was a shop filled with what Zach called "sea things," from fishing tackle and compasses to longjohns and thick navy-oiled jerseys
26. "Pull, pull, my good boys," said Starbuck, in the lowest possible but intensest concentrated whisper to his men; while the sharp fixed glance from his eyes darted straight ahead of the bow, almost seemed as two visible needles in two unerring binnacle compasses
27. But in either case, the needle never again, of itself, recovers the original virtue thus marred or lost; and if the binnacle compasses be affected, the same fate reaches all the others that may be in the ship; even were the lowermost one inserted into the kelson
28. Deliberately standing before the binnacle, and eyeing the transpointed compasses, the old man, with the sharp of his extended hand, now took the precise bearing of the sun, and satisfied that the needles were exactly inverted, shouted out his orders for the ship's course to be changed accordingly
29. "Thou poor, proud heaven-gazer and sun's pilot! yesterday I wrecked thee, and to-day the compasses would fain have wrecked me
30. Accessory, perhaps, to the impulse dictating the thing he was now about to do, were certain prudential motives, whose object might have been to revive the spirits of his crew by a stroke of his subtile skill, in a matter so wondrous as that of the inverted compasses
31. 'Ah, you should go out there in that direction, go right as by compasses, there in a disused vineyard denominated as the Waste, hares are always to be found,' said the cornet, having at once changed his manner of speech
32. Their Lordships say that their attention has been called to the practice of seamen wearing steel stretchers in their caps, and to the danger which may result from these stretchers becoming strongly magnetised, and being worn by men close to the ship's compasses
33. Instances have been reported of compasses being considerably deflected in this manner, and their Lordships have now directed that the use of steel stretchers in caps is to be immediately discontinued
34. "In the general confusion, some iron too near the binnacles had attracted the needle of the compasses; the ship was steered out of her course