crossing
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I wanted to make up some lie that would send her away, but she was already crossing the threshold.
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The woman I thought was Mae isn’t coming nearer to me; she’s still crossing the store.
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Number two: the Roman historian Livy’s book about the Second Punic War, with Rome against the invading North African armies from Carthage and Hannibal’s war elephants crossing the Alps.
What stands out is what the case didn’t involve—no illegal crossing, no forged documents, no dramatic failure at the border.
"When we have two spacecraft crossing those regions in quick succession, we can monitor how those regions vary on timescales as short as two minutes," Lillis said.
From Science Daily
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