periphery
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Hence a sudden and complete peripety in the student's mind.
From Seven Men by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
For him to fall in love was itself a violent peripety, bound to produce a violent upheaval; and such was his pride that for his love to be unrequited would naturally enamour him of death.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
The peripety was according to the best rules of tragic art.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
When a pupil brings in a play in favor of polygamy, Baker declines to argue but talks instead about peripety.
From Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams by Broun, Heywood
When Mr. Archer brings in the relief party of aviators just at the crucial moment, as hero and heroine are about to be slain, he has peripety in mind.
From Seeing Things at Night by Broun, Heywood
Vocabulary lists containing periphery
The Kite Runner
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The Devil's Arithmetic
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