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...ravel and parked directly in front of the house. Two guards in glistening black leather sprang from the rear doors and crouched each side of the car, assault rifles at the ready, heads and eyes flicking from side to side, noses thrust forward as if to smell danger. When satisfied it was safe, the driver got out, crossed to the verandah, tapped on the wall with his rifle an...

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...is isn’t the old days. Besides, you said yourself that the break-in was not reported. The assault with half-loads could just as easily been a warning... ...rty. He was dressed in full uniform, medals and all. Radcliff, with the use of his cane, assaulted the few steps into the Pentagon. A lieutenant rus... ...ed and guessing about what kind of group could have pulled off such a bold and unexpected assault on the supposedly impenetrable Pentagon. Brand star... ... But Garza could hear the anxious tone in his voice. “There seems to be a multiplicity of assaults against our government,” Garza began. “What I am a... ...e against this kind of terrorism. And, make no mistake ladies and gentlemen, we are being assaulted by terrorists. Director Thames must have had inf... ...hen General Ramsey will have your ass.” The soldiers outfitted themselves with automatic rifles and side arms as they scurried around and finally f... ...had mobility. Through his night goggles he saw the enemy spread out, only their heads and rifles peered over the ridge. Brand flattened into a prone ...

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...enly appeared, firing guns in the air and surrounded the two strangers. They were well armed with rifles, bandoleers of ammunition and dangerous cur... ...ph lines, cut by the mutineers, were now being repaired and news of the British Army’s courageous assault against Delhi came through. Prayers were ... ... through their telescopes, were well aware that the commander of the rebels was now preparing for assault. This work was carried out mostly at night... ... scarped and mines and shells buried and horizontal row of poles (fraises) constructed to impede assault ladders. The largest battery, projecting fr... ...ntry and other duties all the men - officers and other ranks - were preparing for the inevitable assault. When they did snatch a few hours together,... ...ied up. THE CURSE OF KALI 327 Several attempts to storm the ramparts were made, but the enemy assaults were repulsed by heavy fire from the garri...

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...eader, he’d been successful in directing a series of low-level robberies and assaults throughout the Cheyenne territory. They were beginning to be ... ...n’t recognize. Moreover, they each had handguns strapped to their waists and rifles on their saddles. “Do you recognize them?” asked Mrs. Rogers,...

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...uld kill to protect just a small portion of their territory. Imagine, a total assault on their most profitable, and Antonio added to himself, evil b... ...emanded Gonzales. "You really believe that the Chinese will risk an out right assault? An incursion into Southeast Asia is insanity. There are too m... ...f Iraqis in Baghdad -- American sympathizers. In his mind, he had planned the assault to perfection; he had recruited four men that he believed to be... ...ver last one of them was dead. It was time. Soule waved to his men for the assault to begin. He led the way down the darkened, dank steps. His ad... ...aturating the small basement in blood. The ear shattering explosions from the rifles finally came to an end. His men roared with excitement. "It is... ...oss of my family." Soule’ spoke with foolish authority. "Is this your first assault?" Soule’ nodded. "It was good, but only by chance are you a... ...wy figures were immediately on the car, two on each side. Garza could see the rifles in their hands. One of the men opened Garza's door, and the dom... .... You would become as the Israelis; your soldiers would walk the streets with rifles strapped to their backs, trying desperately to calm your citize...

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...ht lines. "We tested the weapons to be sure they worked. These are training rifles, not full-sized. They're given to Masari children." Children! Za... ... exposed breasts here, no swelling bellies. The Destiny exchanged for these rifles—the sacred powder Watu dispensed in the village—was strictly forb... ... and ran her fingers smoothly across the magazine assembly. The single-shot rifles Watu brought to the training camp already seemed primitive. They ... ...antage. So, too, would the element of surprise. She had to weigh an all-out assault against the irregularities of sniper fire. Either way would plac... ...e lowered the bag slowly, unwrapped the burlap, and lifted the first of two rifles. How he wished he could fire it, but he couldn't take that risk o... ...e. Once Gria's smithy had enough raw materials it would manufacture its own rifles, better ones than these. Some day 128 Elissa Malcohn Deviations...

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... an armed band of insurgents ... or ... killed a neighbouring civilian Turk who had assaulted some girl of the place ... At the very least all the m... ...-fired anti-tank rocket launchers (like the German "Armburst"), mortars, recoilless rifles, anti-aircraft machine-guns and automatic assault rifles.... ... "Armburst"), mortars, recoilless rifles, anti-aircraft machine-guns and automatic assault rifles. Some of the weapons were even bought from Serb a... ...rn societies continued to buy oil and narcotics, ultimately financing the terrorist assault upon themselves. Sam: I largely agree with the rest of ... ..., to let it spill out, no matter in which direction. The anger caused by the daily assault on human dignity, humiliation and jealousy felt by the c...

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... know. He trespassed in my saloon and called you out. Isn’t that some kind of assault?” “Might be, but there were a lot of witnesses and he never ... ...ind and off to the side of the cabin, I could see five men on horseback with rifles pulled. One of ‘em had Spirit’s reins! They had my horse and wi... ...I had to ride fast. I knew they’d be coming for me and they had saddles… and rifles. It felt funny riding from the law. Made me feel like a crimina... ... you bopped this deputy on the head, and now he’s after you for burglary and assault. I’d like to believe you did it for good reason, but I’m parti...

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...er sounds like these!” The bright flashes and the quick reports of a dozen rifles, from the opposite banks of the stream, followed this incau- tious e... ...s, who raised a shout of savage triumph at the fall of Gamut. The flash of rifles was then quick and close be- tween them, but either party was too we... ...ce, into this cavern, where you, at least, will be safe from the murderous rifles of our enemies, and where you may bestow a care suited to your gentl... ...ions could throw into the air. It was followed by the swift flashes of the rifles, which sent their leaden mes- sengers across the rock in volleys, as... ...o the air, and were scattered by the wind, but the Indian an- swered their assault by a taunting laugh, sending down upon them another bullet in retur... ...on those fragile forms which were so little able to resist the slight- est assault. His apprehensions were, however, greatly relieved, when he saw tha... ...g his keen eyes around the little plain, he comprehended the nature of the assault at a glance, and encouraging his followers by his voice as well as ... ...ctacles, he prepared to discharge a duty, which nothing but the unexpected assault he had received in his or- thodoxy could have so long suspended. He... ...he woods. “We shall draw their entire army upon us, and bring on a general assault,” said Duncan: “lead on, my friend, for your own life and ours.” Th...

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...m an illustrated weekly was upon the log walls, 5 Stephen Crane and three rifles were paralleled on pegs. Equipments hunt on handy projections, and s... ... assured himself that at any mo- ment they might be suddenly and fearfully assaulted from the caves of the lowering woods. He kept his eyes watchfully... ...Through the aisles of the wood could be seen the floating smoke from their rifles. Sometimes it went up in little balls, white and compact. During thi... ...the sound of musketry fire. After a time the hot, dangerous flashes of the rifles were visible. Smoke clouds went slowly and insolently across the fie... ... who were giving shrill yells. They came on, stoop- ing and swinging their rifles at all angles. A flag, tilted forward, sped near the front. As he ca... ...blade high—a blue, de- termined figure standing before a crimson and steel assault, getting calmly killed on a high place before the eyes of all. He t... ...tling bout. It was as if he planned to drag the youth by the ear on to the assault. The private felt a sudden unspeakable indig-nation against his off... ...giment bustled forth with undiminished fierceness when its time came. When assaulted again by bul- lets, the men burst out in a barbaric cry of rage a... ...ies, but the regi-ment maintained a stressed silence. Perhaps, at this new assault the men recalled the fact that they had been named mud diggers, and...

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...equivocal, to rise to their feet, as quick as thought. Both glanced at the rifles that leaned against a tree; and then each stood without stretching o... ...ore of his oatmeal or his potatoes than of Indian sarcumventions or Indian rifles.” “And yet I should think, from all we have heard in the towns, that... ...ore in their canoes,” answered the speaker on the bank. “It cannot be. The rifles of our warriors below are certain.” The Pathfinder gave a significan... ...now being aimed at the solitary man in the nearest canoe. “A y, empty your rifles like simpletons as you are,” said the Pathfinder, who had acquired a... ...m I to do, June?” she demanded. “It cannot be long before your people will assault this building.” “Blockhouse good—got no scalp. “But they will soon ... ...t besieged until the return of the Sergeant’s party, lest, the signs of an assault should give a warning to eyes as prac- tised as those of Pathfinder... ...h renewed effort. At length when, she found that the door re- sisted these assaults as if it were of stone, neither trembling nor yielding, and only b... ... peculiar warfare in which he was engaged, appear to remain exposed to the assaults of Killdeer, whose reputation throughout all that frontier was as ... ...erpent, who is a gentleman for an Indian. But, when these savages made the assault on us, killing Corporal M’Nab and his men as if they had been so ma...

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...en “strafed” and there had been a number of casualties; there were smashed rifles about and a smashed-up machine gun emplacement, and the men were dog... ...s a very big attack is contemplated, I suppose there is no advantage in an assault; across that narrow interval we should only get into trenches that ... ...which be- gins as a line of trenches behind wire, containing infantry with rifles and machine guns. Against this an infantry attack 53 H G Wells with... ...nders, under the preliminary bombardment, get into the dug-outs with their rifles and machine guns, and emerge as fresh as paint as the attack comes u... ... a shell to explode safely so soon after firing; but they are shot at with rifles and machine guns. They do not mind being shot at; only the petrol ta... ...ches of clustering wooden crosses and boards where the dead of the opening assaults lie. There are no more reapers now, there is no more green upon th... ..., was thought of as an affair of rather imperfectly trained young men with rifles and horses and old-fashioned things like that. A Mexican war on that...

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... Lingard used to take his assorted cargo of Manchester goods, brass gongs, rifles and gunpowder. His brig Flash, which he commanded himself, would on ... ...tic squabbles of that industrious cultivator ended generally in a combined assault of all his wives upon the Siamese slave. The girl herself never com... ...nvitation. But Babalatchi’s discretion was proof even against the combined assaults of good fellowship and of strong gin generously administered by th... ...profusion. To the left of the en- trance stood a rude arm-rack, with three rifles with fixed bayo- nets in it. By the wall, in the shadow, the body-gu... ... white jack- ets of the officers, the light on the levelled barrels of the rifles. What is the bravery of the greatest warrior before the firearms in ...

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...n: V ol One liar advantage on the battlefield of national politics. In the assault on the Missouri Compromise which broke down all legal barriers to t... ... war was inevitable, and that the other was determined to fight, until the assault on Fort Sumter pre- sented the South as the first aggressor and rou... ...rom the general enthusiasm which had swept the North- ern States after the assault upon Sumter. It could not truly be said that they had lost heart, b... ...orning at sunrise in Bob Allen’s meadow, one hundred yards’ distance, with rifles. To this Whitesides, Shields’s second, said “No,” because of the law... ...let us ask what three men have been more perseveringly vindictive in their assaults upon all our men and measures than they? During the last summer th...

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... And Admiral Ribas (known in Russian story) Most strongly recommended an assault; In which he was opposed by young and hoary, Which made a l... ... “Canto Seven” 177 Most things were in this posture on the eve Of the assault, and all the camp was in A stern repose; which you would scarce... ... when bent to storm A fortress, Harlequin in uniform. The day before the assault, while upon drill For this great conqueror play’d the corpor... ...eral, if he hath no greater fault In war than love, he had better lead the assault.’ ‘He shall if that he dare.’ Here Juan bow’d Low as the co... ..., By special providence, to lead to morrow, Or it may be to night, the assault: I have vow’d To several saints, that shortly plough or harro... ...made them apes of her distortions; Simple they were, not savage; and their rifles, Though very true, were not yet used for trifles. Motion was i...

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...“If there are two balls through the deer, I would ask if there weren’t two rifles fired— besides, who ever saw such a ragged hole from a smooth-bore a... ... The throng consisted of some twenty or thirty young men, most of whom had rifles, and a collection of all the boys in the village. The little urchins... ...s, was busily occupied, aided by Benjamin, in making arrange- ments for an assault of more than ordinarily fatal character. Among the relics of the ol... ...he bass. During the winter, you know, they are entirely protected from our assaults by the ice, for they refuse the hook; and during the hot months th... ...re are no more, I hope.” “Why, there is a threaten to come forward with an assault that happened at the last independence day; but I’m not sartain tha... ... salary will be much reduced before you can get the matter fairly settled. Assault- ing a magistrate in the execution of his duty , and menacing a con... ... man, where the minis- ters of justice are to be opposed by men armed with rifles? Is it for this that I have tamed the wilder ness?” “Had you tamed t... ...er to arrest Nathaniel Bumppo, commonly called the Leather-Stocking He has assaulted a magistrate, and resisted the execution of a search-war rant, by... ... I calls him an honest man, and one as has a handy way with boat-hooks and rifles; but as for owning that a man desarves anything worse than a double ...

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... instincts through that waste And trackless re- gion, though on every side Assaulted by voracious enemies, Whales, sharks, and monsters, arm’d in fron... .... 1828. Being once pursued by a whale which he had wounded, he parried the assault for some time with a lance; but the furious monster at length rushe... ...is very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults! And thus have these naked Nantucketers, these sea her- mits, issu... ...fresh lance, when the former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and moreover, as there generally subsists between the two, a close... ...r whale of that species. But at length, such calamities did ensue in these assaults—not re- stricted to sprained wrists and ankles, broken limbs, or d... ...an orchestra, that made the air vibrate as with the combined discharges of rifles. The triumphant halloo of thirty buckskin lungs was heard, as—much n...

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...t into the hands of that eminent tribu- nal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not... ...se to drive the United States authority from these places, an unpro- voked assault has been made upon Fort Sumter, I shall hold myself at liberty to r... ...ty, repel force by force. In case it proves true that Fort Sumter has been assaulted, as is reported, I shall perhaps cause the United States mails to... ...ant pretended letters of marque to authorize the bearers thereof to commit assaults on the lives, vessels, and property of good citizens of the countr... ...as perhaps ten to one. A disproportionate share of the Federal muskets and rifles had somehow found their way into these States, and had been seized t... .... 251 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five It is thus seen that the assault upon and reduction of Fort Sumter was in no sense a matter of self-...

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....” Pope waited till Dennis had committed himself by a powerful but furious assault on 12 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Addison’s... ...t or genius. Pope felt, or seemed to feel, entire indifference as to these assaults. On some of them, indeed, he could afford to look down with contem... ...my lays. Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel A well-bred lord t’assault a gentle belle? Oh, say what stranger cause, yet unexplored, Could ... ... all the writer lives in every line; His easy art may happy nature seem, T rifles themselves are elegant in him. Sure, to charm all was his peculiar f...

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...- thing wonderfully stirring, and they were struck with such terrific force that I could not understand why the opposing sword was not beaten down und... ...ely way to get a verdict on the field of honor. So I framed this idea into a proposition. But it was not accepted. The code was in the way again. I pr... ...is hands at times when only special providences could have relieved him. He was a doughty war- 53 A Tramp Abroad rior and found a deep joy in battle.... ... It had a mighty trunk and a mighty spread of limb and foliage. The limbs near the ground were nearly the thickness of a barrel. That tree had witness... ...n earthquake shock in my rear, administered by the very ram I was sacrificing my- self to save; I hear once more the typhoon of laughter that burst fr...