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Meanings of upper rim in English

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Usage of upper rim in English
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A plain cornice, edged with tiles, binds the upper rim throughout.
The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition / A P...
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Lightning crackled around the upper rim of the failing atmosphere-processing station.
The Complete Alien Omnibus
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Its upper rim was uneven, perhaps with broken stones, leaving gaps like missing teeth.
Sister of the dead
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No one heard anything, but it took down all the trees along the upper rim.
Conquest of the Useless
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Taking a long drink, he gazed at me over the upper rim of his mug.
After midnight
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The upper rim of a milk bottle should be washed before pouring milk from it.
School and Home Cooking
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While creeping along the upper rim of a gully he stepped on a round stone.
The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers; Or, On the Trail of ...
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It was cool in the well and the morning sun fell only upon the upper rim.
Blood Meridian
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Behind it, the jagged, precipitous cliff rose another five hundred to the heights of the upper rim.
Brigands of the Moon
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He watched the pale white globes of the streetlamps pass along the upper rim of the window.
No country for old men
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The height from the upper rim (4) (i.e.
The Sportsman: On Hunting, a Sportsman's Manual, Commonly Called...
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Put strings through the upper rim, fill the carrot cup with water, and hang it up in a sunny window.
Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf / For t...
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Holly targeted the magnetic rollers along the doors upper rim, sinking blast after blast from her Neutrino into their mechanisms.
Artemis Fowl: the opal deception
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Far above was what looked like a cave, with a growth of some queer, black grass on its upper rim.
The Emancipatrix
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The skin was morgue white, shadowed where the underlying bone had caved in-thecheek, the upper rim of the orbit.
Speaking in Bones
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I delighted to muse within the circular ruin, upon whose upper rim, jagged but sunlit, delicate vegetation found a repentant welcome.
Memories of Hawthorne
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