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    1. She flew off, over its head, smacking her knee on the hard shell of its big middle eye and then tumbling thru yards of splintery brush before coming to rest


    2. "There really is a ceramic shell in there


    3. KA-BOOOOOOM! The shell fired by the militants explodes near the tail section, the plane shudders violently and cases of liquor tumble in every direction


    4. So that was how she got here, a young woman bounding thru space on the shell of a dusty old starship


    5. The shop was prominent not because of any ostentation, but rather because any open business stood out on the half boarded up and derelict empty shell of Darklow Main Street


    6. The outer shell of this iron asteroid was only fourteen feet thick in spots, serving as shielding from the relativistic barrage of interstellar flight


    7. He looked down at the shell of the man


    8. The lower floors looked to be holding older marble together with the synthetic stone shell


    9. It floated like a boat with a thick turtle-hard, but smooth shell on top


    10. His shell was a heavy eight seater, but they saw he did have extra paddles and the floors looked like the bilge was dry

    11. He looked down upon the bright and savage earth for the first time in countless measures of eternity and there Smith saw something quite unexpected; the utterly familiar shape of loneliness embodied in the outlandish shell of the hairless ape who dared to contemplate creation, baying at the stars, calling out in utter desperation for the companionship that comes with that first sparkling moment of harmony within the song of songs


    12. He looked down at the shell of the man he had once known so well and wondered whether he could simply walk out of the place with him under his arm


    13. His shell hardened and then he really started to grow in size


    14. ‘Ghost in a Shell, and the Wolf’s Rain series; ah, here’s Akira…”


    15. freezing the blood of boys in the winged shell of her smile


    16. She had some difficulty finding her egg; it was under a piece of shell


    17. At the bottom was a final shell fragment and as he removed it he saw a perfectly rounded silver egg


    18. Her shell was starting to harden


    19. There were large pieces of shell strewn about


    20. When he entered he saw the broken pieces of shell lying about

    21. lay battered and shell shocked by the turn of the season,


    22. Shell casings were strewn all about the entrance to the Hall


    23. to the broken shell that lies gathering dust


    24. this ripped and torn shell of a boat


    25. At the water's edge I found tiny bits of waving, organic fluff clinging to the pebbles just where the bubbles melt away; curious purple pieces of seaweed no bigger than a crumb lying on the beach and spiky bits of crab shell attached to the occasional limb


    26. That was my obliterated shell


    27. "I'm glad we've had this year together, I'm glad I got to know the real you and not just that shell


    28. Emily looked about and saw the broken shell, and then she smiled and turned around


    29. A piece of shell hid me from their eyes


    30. It was arid and gritty, mixed in with bits of flint and twigs; there was even a pistachio shell

    31. To have a good shell is to be resilient


    32. It was the same silvery stainless steel as the outer shell


    33. Suddenly there was a loud WOOSH sound and the shell fragments fell away clattering on the stone floor


    34. “Okay, I admit that might sound a bit dumb, but I want to be the one who breaks the hard shell she’s built around herself


    35. The bar has been created out of the shell of an old and derelict warehouse


    36. By the time the fire truck arrived, there wasn't much more than a smoldering shell left


    37. In a nut shell he’s bad news,” Roman responded


    38. The association stems from the legend that his body was washed ashore (ie scallop shell - the sea) on the Atlantic coast nearby


    39. yesterday,’ said the Bailli, pointing to the scallop shell


    40. As far as Brice could tell, there was just the one portal through the Outer Shell, and while walking through it, he could see that, if need be, it could be quickly sealed

    41. By all appearances, the Outer Shell was heavily fortified


    42. "If we believed that you can prolong the mortal shell, Christianity has always taught us that our mortal life is just an introduction to the life we'll have in Heaven, a larval stage if you will


    43. They know there is a ton of meat trapped in this shell, and all they have to do is crack it," Nathalia said, cautiously stepping back


    44. "Nathalia!" Emily cried out, a blue shell forming over her and the One Elf


    45. The darkness spilled over the Outer Shell, surging into the courtyard


    46. She gazed forward with eyes of gray and white, content to see the children safely sheltered beneath a blue shell


    47. Several figures, including Rafe, limped from the remnants of the Outer Shell, saved by crouching against it as the swell flowed over the wall


    48. The goddess, once so powerful, was now so helpless and frail -- her opaque skin seemingly fragile as an egg shell


    49. Nor did he desire to be a prisoner of the Dead Tree for all eternity, a mindless shell moving to the whim of the Void


    50. When the newly enfranchised illegals and the entrenched Latinos, along with the disenfranchised Africanos took over power, there was a shell of a old country remaining














































    1. From gelatinous tiny little footballs to hard shelled giants


    2. But she still needed to get in close enough to land her own blows on their shelled bodies and she had to plan her motions carefully


    3. Usually she shelled every beach in turn but today she had concentrated solely on V and W Beaches and the incoming reinforcements which must have left them chewing sand and the shit running down their legs


    4. Once again the landscape changed and we began to see cottages and farmhouses that had been shelled and sometimes we would pass entire villages that had been devastated


    5. I received word that the two fuchuan I had requested were now on patrol and had already intercepted some Re Che boats and shelled and destroyed concentrations of their boats on Chiloe’s eastern shore, where most of the villages happened to be


    6. They also shelled and destroyed all their villages along the coast forcing them inland where they were more fragmented and unable to mount a serious defense


    7. After a few chews it swallowed the hard shelled


    8. The Balsam positioned and maintained mooring and channel markers for the warships that shelled Japanese positions prior to amphibious troop assaults


    9. Here he had his first experience of war, lying for some days in trenches shelled by the distant German guns


    10. to shove then I would have shelled out the money because there was absolutely no way I was

    11. He was poling his pirogue towards the shore and a boy, his son, Jacques and he had more fish plus two large, pissed-off soft shelled cooters for the boy to clean


    12. To aggravate the situation, they began to be shelled by friendly


    13. They’ve been shot up or shelled


    14. Since most of us paid for the classes ourselves – although it was much cheaper than what you’ll pay today – we made it a point to not be in a situation where we shelled out cash for Advanced Bomb Design even though we didn’t register for the session!


    15. shelled us, returned with a vengeance


    16. Littlesock's home after they had shelled out numerous clips


    17. Ferocious shelled reptiles


    18. Trematon had shelled out eleven million to


    19. Refugee camps that had been set up in neighboring states and the few within the borders of the new country itself were raided and shelled, in attempts to wipe out the terrorists’ bomb-making laboratories and arms caches


    20. Carefully dry the shelled almonds, then grind to a powder in an electric

    21. We can bring those floors to a shelled state and it will be less money when we do the construction


    22. You could walk through one of the shelled upper floors and look from end to end and see nothing


    23. shelled out $10 million to buy the town


    24. “Oh Lisa, she’s not THAT bad, she’s just a bit hard shelled


    25. Christine was her usual self, hard shelled but with a dash of glow to her newly loved up features


    26. I suppose she’d always be hard shelled, that was just the way she was and that was ok


    27. Conseil had just made a cast of the dragnet, and his gear had come back up loaded with a variety of fairly ordinary seashells, when suddenly he saw me plunge my arms swiftly into the net, pull out a shelled animal, and give a conchological yell, in other words, the most piercing yell a human throat can produce


    28. The latter agreed that the conclusion arrived at by the constable was probably the right one and they were about to pass on when the inspector noticed a small speck of light shining through the lower part of the painted window, where a small piece of the paint had either been scratched or had shelled off the glass


    29. In response the excited citizenry had shelled out precious nickels and quarters and dollars, raising an astonishing twelve thousand dollars to send the crews east


    30. Occasionally Chuck or Johnny shelled out a dime for a dance, but to Joe the price seemed extravagant

    31. He was snapping up numbers of the little white- shelled downland snails from the wet grass and cracking them in his great beak, when he suddenly turned to Bigwig and said,


    32. Here and there shelled or burned


    33. A mound of Eagle Eye shelled peas gleamed on the packaging, more seductive-looking than any real-life pea had ever been


    34. The peace deals he negotiated in Oslo and Washington didn’t last, and even the Palestine Authority he helped set up crumbled when the Israeli army came and shelled it to pieces


    35. The cratered streets were flanked by little more than ruins of shelled buildings and abandoned homes


    36. Before the beans can be sold, they must be hand-picked, hauled out of the fields, shelled, dried, and sorted


    37. The battalion to which I belonged had been heavily shelled for many hours, and among the casualties was "Topper" Brown, a Cockney, who was always in trouble for losing items of his kit


    38. A heavy strafe was on, and the road was heavily shelled at intervals from Beavry onwards


    39. After releasing the animal from its predicament, the sentry said: "We'd better send the blighter to the Zoo, Corp, wiv a card to say 'this little pig put the wind up the troops, caused a fousand men to open fire, was bombed, machine-gunned, and shelled


    1. shelling out the bucks if he thought it would help me in school


    2. house would be destroyed in that shelling when another bang


    3. What we were not so happy with was the shelling that was raining down on the beaches but to tell the truth we did not receive many casualties from it


    4. That was the trouble with the rest areas was that you were always shunted into working parties to do fatigues this and the constant shelling meant that you didn’t get that much rest


    5. Mind you sometimes this was an advantage as the Germans seemed to concentrate on the nicer sections of trench leaving these others alone when they were shelling


    6. It was hard to sit in the bunkers because of the fear of being buried alive by a direct hit but then the shelling stopped


    7. 9s’ shelling us and ‘Jack Johnson’s’ and ‘Oil Can’s’ were thrown in for good measure


    8. Some of the lads found some old wire entanglements that had been snapped off in the shelling we dragged these around and placed them behind us facing the other German trenches


    9. With Creelman and Armstrong, I moved down toward Caney, and turned to view the shelling of the citadel from the Ducrot


    10. After nine minutes of this effective shelling, the Spaniards fortunately held fire, and thus the crowded troops behind the ridge were able to move from their perilous position

    11. Preparatory action holds infantry to cover with artillery at the front, until the shelling has produced sufficient effect for a general advance


    12. A few hours shelling would have demolished the blockhouses and cleared the trenches along the ridges


    13. Two of the three guns at San Ursula were doing effective shelling under Colonel Ordonez, wounded during the afternoon


    14. The consuls drew up a letter of protest to Admiral Sampson, against shelling the place without due warning


    15. There was no fire support artillery on mountains or the shelling of suspected positions as used in Vietnam in any of these wars


    16. Our first objective was the city of Lublin, which was one hundred sixty kilometers away, but progress was very slow, as part of the journey was by foot, under severe shelling from the Germans


    17. There was no shelling, no gunfire, no sound of engines revving up and armor clamoring by


    18. Ellen went on shelling peas for a few minutes


    19. She needed transplant surgery and America wasn’t shelling out the dough


    20. night was spent shelling and eating the savory morsels from within

    21. 99 is a much more pleasant price point because it's a bit more fair across the board--the reader isn't shelling out 9


    22. The shelling continued for a minute or two, but they landed far from us, which meant the enemy couldn’t see us


    23. She sat him down in the rocker in the kitchen and put him to shelling black-eyed peas with an ease that said he had done it before


    24. The officer ran away towards the palace, letting Nancy wait impatiently as the GILGAMESH ignored the shelling and started lifting the Imperium ship with a tractor beam


    25. Instead they are shelling out funds to clean up the damage


    26. They think they can get by without shelling out the money for this expense


    27. ‘’Foxtrot Six, we have nothing at this time: our own artillery is under enemy shelling and is in the process of changing positions


    28. When the surviving LSTs landed on the beaches, the blunders continued and many Americans were killed by friendly fire from the British artillery that had started shelling with live ammunition


    29. These judges are used to shelling out 15


    30. The shelling came to a stop

    31. ‘There’s a lot of talk that you are shelling refugee camps, is that why you


    32. That is one reason why you should use caution when shelling out money for these types of products


    33. Constant shelling and bombings created


    34. Now it is time for the military expedition to start moving for shelling the country


    35. 1- What did the people of the country feel when they had heard the news of the military expedition for shelling their country?


    36. underlying unity of all things, then the cost is displaced, and instead of shelling out the price


    37. They learned how to surround German outposts at long range, call in their planes to blast them apart, surround the dug-in German forces with artillery: and level them safely from a distance with more long-distance shelling


    38. The truth was that the damage to the city was astronomical considering the antiquated technology that they had been attacked with, but the enemy fleets had pressed the attack courageously and the continued shelling was beginning to pay off


    39. Our home was near Circuit House, the army headquarters, so we were worried it might have been destroyed in the shelling


    40. They’re scuttling ships at the port, they’re shelling the cathedral, and there’s no water at the hospital

    41. And once again it was pounded home to him how many of his classmates apparently did not even have to think about money, how many had people watching out for them, shelling out thousands of dollars they never expected to see again


    42. A few weeks after Louie arrived at Ofuna, an American carrier force began bombing and shelling Wake Atoll, where the Americans captured during the Japanese invasion were still being held as slaves


    43. There’d been less laughter about that one … and no laughter at all once the second row of sunken barges prevented the ironclad from steaming straight past and shelling the Army of the Seridahn as it retreated along the tow paths and country lanes which followed the river north


    44. Even if they could, the heretics wouldn’t be shelling them this way unless they intended to come calling in person, and men who were crouched in dugouts were men unable to man the parapets of their works


    45. belittling remark about her, so naturally it seems strange to me that you should elect to do the unselfish thing and stay here with her during this shelling


    46. They weren’t shelling out astronomical dollars to have their sons and daughters learn from someone with Alzheimer’s


    47. But the incessant shelling in the background more than made up for that


    48. Two neighbors are both invested in the market, but one is shelling out fistfuls of cash each year, while the other is paying pennies on the dollar


    49. What was she doing? Knitting, shaving herself, peeling potatoes? Shelling peas? Was she sixty, eighty, one hundred, ten million years old?


    50. Instead of shelling out $40,000










    1. "That's fine, you said laboratory equipment was the main thing they put in ceramic shells


    2. Audacity and Greenstone's cannon shells sparkled over the rough alien hull for almost a second before it vanished


    3. Shells: Full shells indicate success, provided that you work hard for it; empty shells bode vain hopes and loss of money


    4. There were the shells of larorlie vines draped over the lower limbs of these trees, the vines long dead in the deep shade


    5. He continued to remove the shells


    6. As they entered the cave, both very excited, they could see the broken shells lying about


    7. After a bit he raised his head and looked at Daniel, “Valotin and I are empty shells, that’s why we volunteered for this job


    8. Alexis was right, it was hard not to crunch bits of pottery or sea shells underfoot, and I was forced to step over a gang of red ants, dragging off a caterpillar and waving nasty-looking pincers at anything that threatened their mission


    9. The coxswains of those quick shells started yelling as they passed


    10. “They sat in the magazine and, well, did something to the shells,”

    11. “Oh, you could always tell which shells had received their


    12. to find out exactly what was so special about these shells


    13. “The special shells, they almost never missed,” he said, sitting


    14. get the range with the ordinary shells, and only then use the special


    15. Glossy black shells covered the


    16. SHELLS gather in piles along the shore


    17. ” As the CSM finished speaking the first shells of the naval bombardment whistled overhead sounding like a train going by


    18. In fact if you looked up into the sky you could actually see the shells from the big naval guns flying in a curved arc towards the Turkish positions as I looked at my watch I could see that it was exactly 8am


    19. We believed it because the Turkish artillery was lashing the beaches firing down from Achi Baba but what really convinced us was that ‘Asiatic Annie’ was firing her heavy shells at both V and W Beaches


    20. As we moved forward we could see the outposts in front of us and we prepared to make a dash for them but before we got anywhere the artillery behind them opened up with shrapnel shells and we had to go to ground to find cover from the murderous hail that met us

    21. Then they fired their shrapnel shells at us and this with the bullets chopped the bush to pieces flinging greenery everywhere and cutting our lads to pieces


    22. “The rest of the Brigade was trying to push up towards us but they were being slaughtered were they stood so naval artillery was called in to silence the machine guns but this did no good because the shells could not find them let alone smash them


    23. We had gone down to the beach and were enjoying our swim when a salvo of Turkish artillery shells was fired at us


    24. “They put me into a filling shed where they taught me to fill 18 pounder shells do you know we work ten hour days in that shed and it is not pleasant in fact it is dirty dangerous work


    25. In the fields we passed now there was Battery after Battery of artillery both light and heavy and near then huge piles of shells were being stacked in dumps


    26. As we continued forward we could see light flickering on the horizon and on the wind we could hear the crump of shells exploding and we knew we were getting close to the front line


    27. These were the ones that back in camp would miss breakfast for an extra half hour in bed but not here and as we handed our mess tins over to be filled we could hear the crump thump of shells on the wind again


    28. We breakfasted in the morning and then started our steady march up to the front line as we got closer we could hear the crump thump of shells and trench-mortars and we also fancied that we could hear the rattle of machine gun fire


    29. Both sides were now going at it hammer and tongue and this continued for some time with very lights soaring in to the sky machine guns rattling away and trench-mortars throwing their shells over


    30. In the end it was that bad one of the trench mortars lobbed a couple of shells in their direction after this there was blessed silence although the Germans retaliated for quite a while after

    31. This allowed us to awe some of the new replacements when they ducked down and we would stand there nonchalant knowing very well the shells would land in the reserve trenches or far behind the lines


    32. “Don’t be angry with her she stopped at the munitions factory because she thought the shells she was making would be used to safeguard you and keep you safe over there that’s how deep her love is for you


    33. “That will be a first, because I’ve never known us to have enough artillery or even shells to do anything let alone blast the enemy into surrender


    34. Superior gunnery on board the Kearsarge and the deteriorated condition of Alabama’s powder and shells soon began to tell


    35. A short while later the German retaliation started and their shells plastered our front line and reserve trenches we took what cover we could in the bunkers


    36. As the shells landed I sat in our bunker and I must have looked as scared as the rest of the lads the floor shook from the explosions and dirt fell onto our heads from the roof


    37. “But wasn’t that because you only had shrapnel shells mostly on Gallipoli were here we have loads and loads of H


    38. shells (high explosive) don’t forget we have carried a lot of them


    39. Now as the guns settled down into their rhythm you could hear the different types of guns the howitzers would cough their shells out and they sounded a bit like the trench-mortars only about twenty times as loud


    40. Then we heard the shells whistle and moan overhead but they were firing long and hitting the German reserve trenches instead of the front line ones

    41. The artillery are using shrapnel to cur the wire in order to do this the fuses on the shells must be cut exact


    42. can’t spot for the artillery and tell them where there shells are landing which isn’t very good for us


    43. But now to make things even worse the Germans started firing shrapnel shells from their hidden batteries behind Serre


    44. I could hear shells exploding again as the strafe started up again and then I could see Fred form the crater shooing me on my way so I lifted my hand towards him in salute


    45. It matters not whether the „money" is expressed in cowrie shells or American dollars (Or does it?) One can"t help expressing concern over the now defunct Gold Standard


    46. " When the yards were done, so were the 20 millimeter shells, which pretty much destroyed anything they hit


    47. A few searching shells from the fleet soon caused him to alter his decision, and the troops evacuated this stronghold, Commandante Billen being killed by a chance shell


    48. Every rifle from fort and entrenchment blazed at once at the silken globe; the artillery re-opened, and bullets and shells poured through the tree-tops, dealing death and destruction among the men in the crowded trail


    49. Grimes’ Battery had reopened, and as there was imminent risk from our own shells falling short, he sent orders to the artillery to cease firing while the troops deployed


    50. There was a murmur of hoarse commands, bugle-calls rang out, while the roar of artillery, incessant crash of rifles and bursting shells, drowned the imprecations of the soldiers and the agonised cries of the wounded














































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