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... the loud bangs from the bullet cannons as the Royal troops fired them. Behind the gates, catapults launched their flaming missiles at the attack- in... ...ng’s army returned fire. Multiple clanking sounds echoed throughout the city as dozens of catapults launched their fiery rain of destruction in a sho... ...ames. Loud explosions filled the air as the missiles smashed into the gate and walls. The catapults hurled huge boulders into the Stronghold. The fr... ...the Stronghold began to crack, but did not break. As Traeus’ Rai Aren & Tavius E. 212 catapults fired on the walls, new waves of flaming missiles... ...12 catapults fired on the walls, new waves of flaming missiles rained down on the band of catapults. “Phalanx, rush the gate, use the battering ram!... ...the gate, use the battering ram!” Traeus called out. “Target their siege engines with our catapults. Cannoneers, give the phalanx cover. Their cata- ... ...useless against their fortified positions!” Alaj yelled. “We should pull back and let our catapults weaken their fortifications before we charge aga...

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... touch with Shertok. You can use this channel.” – suggests Himmler. Suddenly, he catapults from his seat and perches on the edge of the desk, clo...

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...is considered a life cycle. If the situations are extreme, they are called a “catapult,” meaning the running around of the S P I R I T UA L WO R K ...

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...on that propels us into action. Words can completely uplift, delight, and catapult us into a desirable mental state that keeps us in the present mom...

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... welcoming the sweatshop jobs that China and Vietnam had earlier used to catapult them into the global economy. The money they earned helped to fina...

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...el, I devoutly believed that knowledge and education will set me free and catapult me from my miserable circumstances into a glamorous world of happ... ...el, I devoutly believed that knowledge and education will set me free and catapult me from my miserable circumstances into a glamorous world of happ...

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...de from wood or clay, money was leaves, berries or fruit. Boys had slings, catapults, stilts and 'push-along cars', with a wooden wheel at the end of ...

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.... What were I nigher this although we dashed Y our cities into shards with catapults, She would not love;—or brought her chained, a slave, The lifting...

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...ong, and he might make no breach. Octa and his friends made merry over the catapults set over against them. On a morning they opened wide their gates,... ...of leather nor shields. They knew nothing of archery, and were ignorant of catapults and slings. The Britons were mighty bowmen. They shot their shaft...

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...excellence of their temper, desired that one of them might be tried with a catapult missile, shot out of one of the engines at no greater distance tha... ...everal inventions of fire, which they flung among them, Antony’s men using catapults also, to pour down missiles from wooden towers. Agrippa drawing o...

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...stood all sorts of engines and machinery, wheels, cables, pulleys, levers, catapults, &c. &c., expressive of enormous power put forth and resistance o...

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...—and their joint adventures and mishaps, the window they had broken with a catapult in India Place, the escalade of the castle rock, and many another ...

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...tomach under his right ear. From a drawer in the table he took a well-worn catapult, a handful of buckshot, and a duplicate key of the study; noise- l...

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...wrist, yet so tremendous was his strength that I was hurled backward as from a catapult. I struck the door of the state room which had formerly been M...

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...it was alarming to see how it lunged itself at those two innocents, like a catapult designed for their destruction, harmlessly retiring when within an...

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... in the cat for being ill indoors, the cucumber frames were damaged by the catapult- ing of boys going down the lane at the back, and all your cucumbe...

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... journalism offers starting-points by the hundred. Journalism is the giant catapult set in mo- tion by pigmy hatreds. Have you any wish to marry after...

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...ne as proper and holy as that of matrimony, she flings him from her like a catapult. And with this kind of disposi- tion she does more harm in this co...

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...d by main force; whilst the two others, arming themselves each with a trestle, and using it like a great sledge-hammer, knocked down at a blow eight s...

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...it was alarming to see how it lunged itself at those two innocents, like a catapult designed for their destruction, harmlessly retiring when within an...

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...ne as proper and holy as that of matrimony, she flings him from her like a catapult. And with this kind of disposi- tion she does more harm in this co...

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... over his Latin, and was kept in; so Una went alone to Far Wood. Dan’s big catapult and the lead bullets that Hobden had made for him were hidden in a... ...n Volaterrae and shout bits of the Lays to suit its noises. Una took Dan’s catapult from its secret place, and made ready to meet Lars Porsena’s army ... ...l before she springs. ‘Now welcome—welcome, Sextus,’ sang Una, loading the catapult— ‘Now welcome to thy home! Why dost thou stay, and turn... ...n—the Ulpia Victrix. Did you sling that bullet?’ ‘I did. I was using Dan’s catapult,’ said Una. ‘Catapults!’ said he. ‘I ought to know something about... ...ou burn our heather, which is all our crop; you trouble us with your great catapults. Then you hide behind the Wall, and scorch us with Greek fire. Ho... ...he Belgians. It was like an eagle peck- ing a carcass. “‘And now, how many catapults have you?” He turned up a new list, but Pertinax laid his open ha... ...n, or engines, but not both; else we refuse.”’ ‘En- gines?’ said Una. ‘The catapults of the Wall—huge things forty feet high to the head—firing nets o... ... raw stone or forged bolts. Nothing can stand against them. He left us our catapults at last, but he took a Caesar’s half of our men without pity. We ... ...inkle of night-fires all along the guard-towers, and the line of the black catapults growing smaller and smaller in the distance. All these things we ...

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... their heavy cothurni on the paving stones. Their armour was dented by the catapult, and their faces blackened by the sunburn of battles. Hoarse cries... ... have embraced them amid assaults, beneath falling ceilings, and while the catapult was still vibrating!— But she, Spendius, she!—” The slave interrup... ...ormed a lofty wall round the army immov- 48 Salammbo able by the shock of catapults. The ground in the streets was sprinkled with fresh water; throug... ...ative affairs. He decreed the enrolment of all healthy citizens, he placed catapults on the towers, he exacted exorbitant supplies of arms, he even or... ... the scaf- foldings of the lofty engines appeared: carrobalistas, onagers, catapults and scorpions, rocking on chariots drawn by mules and quadrigas o... ... filth under-foot; and he had not all these men before him at the end of a catapult to make them fly into fragments! He felt humiliated at having defe... ...tica; the corners of it were fortified with four huge towers provided with catapults; all the paths and gorges in the mountains were stopped up with t... ...e repulsed by a volley of stones; for the Suffet had taken their abandoned catapults on the bridge. This want of success produced an abrupt change in ... ...arth, dung, and pebbles which they gathered from the ground, while the six catapults rolled incessantly throughout the length of the terrace. But the ...

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...on the neck and chest of the war-steed; while the rider, with chamfron and catapult, with ban and arriere-ban, morion and tumbrel, battle-axe and riff... ...s; and the way in which he escaped death from the discharges of mangonels, catapults, battering- rams, twenty-four pounders, boiling oil, and other ar... ...ng at the flaming and violated threshold of his lately picturesque home. A catapult and a couple of mangonels had done his business. The faithful fell...

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...n and lead and wood, with the weapons of 4 Little Wars the wild, with the catapult, the elastic circular garter, the peashooter, the rubber ball, and... ...nt in spirit—but how different in results!—from the prehistoric warfare of catapult and garter. “But suppose,” said his an- tagonists; “suppose someho...

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... remaining vaults disclosed forks, grap- pling-irons, ladders, cords, even catapults, and bells for the necks of camels; and as they descended deeper ...

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...e. When I hear a trumpet or a drum or the clash of steel or the hum of the catapult as the great stone flies, fire runs through my veins: I feel my bl...

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...e throws a legion at you where you are weakest as he throws a stone from a catapult; and that legion is as a man with one head, a thousand arms, and n...

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...h should be fondled thus, and not used like a trombone, or as if it were a catapult of war? Now this was the gentle way of my beloved Englishman.” Thu...

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...which had the effect of dis- charging that gentleman, like an arrow from a catapult, through a window into the street below. We rushed out en masse to...

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...d!—Glorious Antiochus!—He runs! —he leaps! —he flies! Like an arrow from a catapult he approaches the hippodrome! He leaps! —he shrieks! —he is there!...

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... but not brake, and either knight at once, Hurled as a stone from out of a catapult Beyond his horse’s crupper and the bridge, Fell, as if dead; but q...

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... gauntlets, and spurs. Others made ready bows, slings, crossbows, pellets, catapults, migrains or fire-balls, firebrands, balists, scorpi- ons, and ot... ...tles with machines and warlike thunderbolts, battering-rams, ballists, and catapults, whose shapes were shown to us, not over-well understood by our e...

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...t produce only clouds of spray. Individuals of classical knowledge propose catapults. Santerre, the sonorous Brewer of the Suburb Saint- Antoine, advi...