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prime

/pɹiːm/ noun C2
  1. An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.

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“Yet,” continued the count, becoming each moment more absorbed in the anticipation of the dreadful sacrifice for the morrow, which Mercédès had accepted, “yet, it is impossible that so noble-minded a woman should thus through selfishness consent to my death when I am in the prime of life and strength; it is impossible that she can carry to such a point maternal love, or rather delirium.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 902 · C1
It’s more than the Prime Minister gets.
The Valley of Fear, p. 17 · C1
He was more than six feet high, was in the prime of life, had small feet for his height, wore coarse, square-toed boots and smoked a Trichinopoly cigar.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 35 · B2
I have never seen the Prime Minister so upset.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 7 · B2

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