Quotes About Cordon

You have more chances of giving birth to a live hippopotamus," said Requin, "than the best thief alive has of making it past the cordon drawn around my vault.

The Darter must have been amazed by such rules and beliefs in a pregnant seventeen-year-old girl who would go on to cordon off the bad habits of his life so efficiently.

Suppose that the links in the cordon of civilisation were neutralised by other links in a far more potent chain. The earth is seething with incoherent power and unorganised intelligence.

Admiral," said Gladstone, "is it absolutely necessary to destroy the singularity sphere as soon as the Ousters have penetrated our cordon sanitaire? Couldn't we wait another few minutes to judge their intentions?" "No, CEO," answered the Admiral promptly. "The farcaster link must be destroyed as soon as they are within quick assault range.

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