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...n I, through my anatomical studies, know the marvels of life! Now, I shun crossbows, guns, chariots. I have asked Francesco to destroy those sketche... ...or weeks. March – April – May, it was the warmth of May that unlocked its crossbow and shot me out- doors, to sit and sit for hours. There, in the s... ... They bow over a map. Immediately, I sense that their secret codes are in operation. They guess that I am suspicious; I see that when a lieutenant t...

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...ople to force an author to finish a book and you thought it was a one-writer operation. Love at First Stake 5 Chapter One “Madam, are you a... ...ation, he’d made it to the door. Speed wouldn’t help him. My skills with a crossbow had earned me many awards, including Grand Champion Marksman t... ... were trapped by the confines of a legally binding birth certificate. The crossbow rocked against my shoulder as the bolt flew — yet another futur... ... one big helping of trouble. Instead of stopping right there and getting my crossbow, I walked up to where he sat and dropped to my knees in front ... ... this time. Of those twenty, only four actually call Louisiana their base of operation. Do you know what that means?” Sounding very stupid, I answ... ...tending to give me a chance. By rights I should be the one in charge of the operation, not Kristain. I knew the minute my brother stepped off the ... ...is entire mess started, your father called. He has decided to supervise the operation himself. His flight should be landing just in time for things... ... gasped cuz my lungs were still trying to kick start themselves back to peak operational status. “Yes,” his voice danced across my neck. “I want yo...

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...stered them. Now, Brother Rocelin had started to instruct her on its inverse operation, division. She found the reverse operation to be simple. “H... ... left Aislinn so tired that she could barely walk, let alone study or shoot a crossbow. Aislinn fell into bed and heard a ‘thump.’ She investigated...

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...task requiring all focus of attention and awareness be concentrated upon this operation. Using a flint chip requires an equal degree of concentratio... ...eed has become so impersonal, so mechanized, so computerized… that the entire operation has no human meaning to it. Machines talking to machines. ... ...they get. The safer they get; the stupider they get. The more complex their operations become; the more inefficient they become. The evolution o... ... was one of the ultra rich who knew about it and profited from the false flag operation. The point is: nothing is as it seems when it comes to the m... ... ‘Oh, you have a---? Then take this pill for--- or this treatment, or this operation. Don’t bother me with the details of how and why you got si... ...ons of humans have been killed by humans using the wheel as war chariots, and crossbows, and siege weapons, and water wheels, and clocks, and pulley ...

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...ich, it seems probable, his brother Rodrigo was serving, and shared in the operations of the next three years, including the capture of the Goletta an... ...hem come running, and with them the officers of the Brotherhood with their crossbows, appre- hended mischief, and clustering round the image, raised t... ...ontrary, she turned her back on me and took to flight, at such a pace that crossbow bolt could not have overtaken her. I wished to follow her, and wou... ...red men, as it seemed to him, armed with weapons of various sorts, lances, crossbows, partisans, halberds, and pikes, and a few muskets and a great ma... ...t avenge him. Far from it, finding a shower of stones rained upon him, and crossbows and muskets unnumbered levelled at him, he wheeled Rocinante roun... ...lcinea says true, I have my soul stuck here in my throat like the nut of a crossbow.” “What say you to this, Sancho?” said the duchess. “I say, señora...

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...ains favour either the offensive or the defensive. But they certainly make operations far more deliberate than upon a level. An engineered road or rai... ... how to do it best. M. Reinach has made certain sug- gestions about the co-operation of the French and British that I will discuss elsewhere, but one ... ...e- stroyed; the idea of breaking infantry formation as the chief offensive operation has disappeared, the cavalry charge and the cavalry pursuit are a... ...e rare infrequent open. Even the Zulu assegai would serve as well. The two operations of the infantry attack now are the rush and the “scrap.” These c... ...fighting. You may consider this the first or the last phase of an infantry operation. It is probably at present 71 H G Wells the least worked-out par... ... still to discover that it is about as ridiculous as if he were to carry a crossbow. I take it these spurs are only the outward and visible sign of an...

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...ular, good people, because I would have you follow, so far as you may, the operations of my mind. That plague which I told you I had handled out- side... ... he’s routing rats from a rick. Secundo, or secondly, the vehement act and operation of this chase or war opened their skins to generous transpiration... ...And they heard a bloodhound bay. They took and ran across the fern, Their crossbows in their hand, Till they met a man with a green lantern That cal... ...you heard a bloodhound bay, You’ll know how pressed we be.’ ‘Oh, lay your crossbows on the bank And drop the knife from your hand, And though the ho... ... hounds are at your flank I’ll save you where you stand!’ They laid their crossbows on the bank, They threw their knives in the wood, And the ground...

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...ss, when the barons went out bear or wolf-hunting, or the younger took his crossbow and hound to provide the wild-fowl, which, un- der Christina’s ski... ...in high repute for spirit and enterprise and skill as a cragsman, with the crossbow, and in all feats of arms that the Schneiderlein could impart. The... ... equipments. Ebbo wore his father’s sword, Friedel had merely a dagger and crossbow. There was not a gold chain, not a brooch, not an approach to an o... ...iligently in the city tilt-yard, where young men were trained to arms. The crossbow was the only weapon with which they excelled; and, as shooting was... ... it was said from over free use of melons in the fever conse- quent on the operation. His death was not likely to make much change in the government, ... ...her own with some pebbles from the brook, and some mortar filched from the operations above, to the great detriment of her soft pinky fingers. The pil...

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... been sparing of his colours. In one, a lady was having a toe amputated—an operation which a saintly personage had sailed into the room, upon a couch,... ...ted, I arrived upon a little scene, which, by one of those singular mental operations of which we are all conscious, seemed perfectly familiar to me, ... ...of its cage. Rich suits of mail worn by great warriors were hoarded there; crossbows and bolts; quivers full of arrows; spears; swords, daggers, maces... ... cut through it by the intelligent Do minican friars, to facilitate their operations at dinner time. I am not mechanically acquainted with the art of... ... fine cloth; a third, Peter’s nosegay, which was taken from him during the operation. This his Holiness performed, with considerable expedition, on ev...

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...torms, of darkness, of danger—over- ruled all obstacles into one steady co-operation to a national result. For my own feeling, this post-office servic... ...” 55 3 CORYMBI: clusters of fruit or flowers. 55 28 QUARREL: the bolt of a crossbow, an arrow having a square, or four-edged head (from Middle Latin q...

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...e died the death of a fat buck,” said one of the party, “being shot with a crossbow bolt, by old Thatcham, the Duke’s stout park-keeper at Donnington ... ...speak with him, and, expressing his hope that he had been pleased with the operation of his medicine in behalf of Sir Hugh Robsart, added his desire t... ...ess and ad- dress that plainly showed him well practised in all the manual operations of pharmacy. By the time Wayland’s electuary was prepared the ho... ...heir master, and placed him in bed. “I warn you,” he said, “that the first operation of this medi- cine will be to produce a heavy sleep, during which... ...pts to form the precious metals, even as by art we can perfect those other operations of incubation, distillation, fermentation, and similar processes... ...ggests to me that in her state the fear of evil may be as dangerous as its operation. But see that she take my specific, for” (he lowered his voice, a...

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... to see the stag course with greyhounds, or to gain an aim at him with the crossbow. In one spot, distinguished by a moss-grown Gothic monument, which... ...rd; and though our hero was writhing with pain, would not pro- ceed to any operation which might assuage it until he had perambulated his couch three ... ...ch was by the bystanders unanimously ascribed to the spells with which the operation had been accompanied. Edward was given to understand, that not on... ... unwonted extent, Edward began to dress himself in all haste, during which operation the min- strelsy of Davie changed its tune more than once:— There... ...nts and expressions. He cau- tiously avoided any reference to the military operations or civil politics of the time: and to Waverley’s direct inquirie... ...dherents of the house of Stuart; and as a well-founded disbelief in the co-operation of the English Jacobites kept many Scottish men of rank from his ...

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... of whom was attended by three bold followers; and his archers, with their crossbows to shoot bolts, and longbows to shoot arrows of a yard long, so t... ...tove in the room, and the maidens began to pack up their clothes there, an operation that lasted till eight o’clock; while Helen’s friend stood there,... ...s become the especial prey of infec- tion. At that time lead works were in operation in the moun- tains, and the village was thickly inhabited. Great ...

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...ho pays little respect to gold in comparison of her son’s liberty. In this operation, a pebble inserted in a coin, some say of the Lower Empire, fell ... ...It seemed to the spectators as if some effervescence took place during the operation; but if so, it instantly subsided. “Drink,” said the physician to... ...ast.” At the same time was heard the sound of a spring or check, as when a crossbow is bent. “Unbend thy arblast, and come into the moonlight,” said t... ...he arrived on the platform at the top, shifted to his left hand the little crossbow, which was just such a toy as children at that period were permitt...

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... a wooden bird, about the size of a turkey, at the top; to hit this with a crossbow from a regular stand, about 50 feet from the foot of the pole, is ... ... such a time; but the idea that the vessel might be lost, the mission- ary operations suspended, &c.; this shot through me in those two minutes! But I... ...ua Lava, the principal is- land of the Banks group, becoming our centre of operations, i.e., that it would be the place where winter school would be c... ...eive a note from you. Though I never doubt of the hearty sympa- thy and co-operation of all Eton friends (how could you do so with such an annual subs... ...l gloom, far from it, there is much to cheer and comfort us. The hearty co-operation of these excellent fellow- workers is such a support, and is brou... ...vely, is the nearest approach that has yet been made to regular missionary operations there. Our short visits in the “Southern Cross,” or my short thr...

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...ich, it seems probable, his brother Rodrigo was serving, and shared in the operations of the next three years, including the capture of the Goletta an... ...hem come running, and with them the officers of the Brotherhood with their crossbows, appre- hended mischief, and clustering round the image, raised t...

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...drawing, bended against his breast 92 Gargantua & Pantagruel the greatest crossbows of steel, took his aim by the eye with the hand-gun, and shot wel... ... despatching our matins and anniversaries in the choir, I make withal some crossbow-strings, polish glass bottles and bolts, I twist lines and weave p... ...oting with a snapwork gun, an ordinary bow for com- mon archery, or with a crossbow. The office-houses were without the tower Hesperia, of one storey ... ... cross- bow wherewith to shoot at small birds, which now they call the get crossbow at Chantelle. Then he sent him to the school to learn, and to spen... ...ion, deliberation, ratiocination, and memory have their rise, actings, and operations. Cops body, I sink, I drown, I perish, I wander astray, and quit... ...cted. We have nevertheless of those ingredients which, being of a contrary operation, heat the blood, bend the nerves, unite the spirits, quicken the ... ...s shaken and ebrangled, their senses totally ravished and transported, the operations of their judgment and understanding utterly confounded, and all ... ... fibres, which are the precious and excellent parts. In and with this sole operation do these ac- quiesce and are contented, who, contrary to the rece... ...ome other sorts of herbs which have got their names from their virtues and operations, as Aristolochia, because it helpeth women in childbirth; Lichen...

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... your pleasure to encumber your pages.” I replied, “That he confounded the operations of the pencil and the pen; that the serene and silent art, as pa... ...had shown his two principal guests into the T ower, and then commenced his operations. “I think,” he said to the stranger menials, “that, as they are ... ...ring himself, being no other than Henry Ashton, who came running up with a crossbow in his hand. “I knew I should startle you,” he said; “and do you k... ...e lies, faith! Was it not well shot? and, I dare say, I have not shot in a crossbow!—not ten times, maybe.” “Admirably shot, indeed,” said Ravenswood;... ...array the corpse in clean linen, and over that in its woollen shroad, were operations committed always to the old ma- trons of the village, and in whi... ... involuntary horror with which she saw she was regarded, she commenced her operations by endeavour- ing to efface or overcome those prejudices which, ...

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...Dante Therefore a longer journey did we make, T urned to the left, and a crossbow-shot oft We found another far more fierce and large. In binding ... ...gh the universe in leaves is scattered; Substance, and accident, and their operations, All interfused together in such wise That what I speak of i...

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...he head, he was in an unconscious state, from which the severe pain of the operation had only roused him, so far as to evince a few signs of suffering... ...ic, had been recommended to work in that line during his visit at home— an operation usually deferred, as at present, to the evening. “I am going to d... ... Richard was certified of its identity, he let her fly, like a bolt from a crossbow, and she stood by Dr. May’s side. A little ashamed, she blushed in... .... She smiled, accomplished that feat steadily, and Norman con- tinuing the operation, Aubrey guided Gertrude in handing round the slices. George did f... ...est able to replace what they had lost. There were many plans to be put in operation for Cocksmoor, on which much consultation was needed, though ever...