in a vacuum

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in a vacuum

without any connection to other people or events These kids are growing up in a vacuum, without any guidance from their parents or anyone else.

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This led to their working at night, by light produced in a vacuum by means of Ruhmkorff's apparatus, which threw an artificial brightness into the depths of the Columbiad. From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context The rate of progress, however rapid it might be, cannot produce any sensible effect on the human frame when it takes place in a vacuum, or when the mass of air circulates with the body which is carried with it. Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context He pointed out particularly the lightness of everything, the use of exhausted aluminium tubing, of springy cushions inflated with compressed hydrogen; the partitions were hydrogen bags covered with light imitation leather, the very crockery was a light biscuit glazed in a vacuum, and weighed next to nothing. The War in the Air by Wells, H.G. View in context			in a manner of speaking in a month of Sundays in a New York minute in a nut shell in a nutshell in a pickle in a pig's eye In a pig's eye! in a pinch in a pique in a quandary in a row in a rut in a second in a sense in a snit in a spot in a stage whisper in a stew in a stupor in a sweat in a tight spot in a tizzy in a twit in a twitter in a vacuum in a vicious circle in a way in a word in a world of own in abeyance in absentia in accord in accordance with in action in addition in advance in agreement in all but name in all likelihood in all modesty in all my born days in all probability in an age of years in an interesting condition in an ivory tower in and of itself in any case in any event in any shape or form in any way, shape, or form			in a sense in a sense in a sense in a sense in a sense In a Silent Way In A Similar Manner in a similar way In A single Round in a snit in a split second in a spot in a stage whisper in a state of action in a state of flux In a state of nature in a state of uncertainty in a stew In a stound in a stupor in a sweat in a tight spot in a tizzy in a tough spot in a twinkling in a twinkling in a twit in a twitter in a twitter in a twitter in a vacuum in a vicious circle in a way in a way in a way in a way in a way In A While Crocodile in a wink in a wink in a wink in a word in a word in a word in a word in a word in a world of own in abeyance in abeyance in absentia in absentia in absentia in absentia In Absentia (album) In Absentia (album) In absentia (law) In absentia (law) In abstentia In abstentia in accord in accord

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