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1. The enormous stump with its buttresses and gnarled roots was afterwards set on fire, and when darkness fell on the capital the blazing fetish houses and heaps of rubbish, with the black bodies of the levies as they rushed hither and thither, demolishing walls and throwing fresh fuel on the blazing piles, made a weird and striking scene, that will be long imprinted on the minds of those who witnessed it
2. "Christmas is a season of peace on earth," he had told himself, while demolishing the logs of a sinister deadfall with his axe; and now the
3. I didn't want to be around when the graveyard attendant realized I was demolishing his cemetery
4. It eventually mounted a pavement at the end of the road and went into a brick wall of a neighbour’s front garden demolishing the centre of it
5. This horror story is about demolishing Ukrainian
6. ' A series of grainy black and white images flickered through Midges mind, images of 1950s' American nuclear tests demolishing entire villages, tearing houses apart, setting trees and cars ablaze, and leaving a crater hundreds of metres in diameter
7. Then the fight for Guadalcanal and the Solomons had cost more precious ships and aircraft to the imperial forces, apart from demolishing the myth of the invincibility of the Imperial Japanese Army
8. Niles spent the better half of the previous day demolishing the interior of the isolated cabin, in search of his missing treasure
9. over his shoulder, demolishing the ground in front of
10. Demolishing a man’s house on his property after such a trag-
11. A40 Demolishing the wall between the old finished prod-
12. Demolishing the old paint store
13. Demolishing the wall between the small presses shop and
14. Demolishing the wall between the old finished goods store
15. Demolishing the old paint store (activity 2 – duration 3) Cleaning up and levelling of the building site (activity 7 – duration 4)
16. Demolishing the existing outside wall (activity 21 – duration 2)
17. Demolishing the wall between the small press shop and large press shop (activity 31 – duration 1)
18. Demolishing the wall between the old finished goods store and the raw material store (activity 47 – duration 1)
19. Indians and Chinese went on demolishing their temples to start a new temple called “Buddah Image”
20. org Web page, especially a seminar they did called Demolishing Strongholds
21. Spock and Stu sat outside in the large grounds at Thran’s, listening to the banging and crashing of men and machines demolishing and clearing unsafe buildings that were rocked and damaged by the explosions
22. He grew up demolishing them but only to realize that he had added
23. demolishing of cities; nay, the sedition at last increased
24. Demolishing a man’s house on his property after such a tragedy was tricky
25. upon themselves; for the Jews, by demolishing the tower
26. The revolution had started demolishing all possible threats of opposition to its regime and Amy's family apparently conformed to their definition of threat and its wealth was duly sequestrated
27. It seemed the patient was intent on demolishing everything within reach
28. stop a machine capable of demolishing your house
29. Halt! ill-born rabble, follow him not nor pursue him, or ye will have to reckon with me in battle!" and suiting the action to the word, he drew his sword, and with one bound placed himself close to the show, and with unexampled rapidity and fury began to shower down blows on the puppet troop of Moors, knocking over some, decapitating others, maiming this one and demolishing that; and among many more he delivered one down stroke which, if Master Pedro had not ducked, made himself small, and got out of the way, would have sliced off his head as easily as if it had been made of almond-paste
30. The wide-spread grunting drove came on in a surging mass, and without showing any respect for Don Quixote's dignity or Sancho's, passed right over the pair of them, demolishing Sancho's entrenchments, and not only upsetting Don Quixote but sweeping Rocinante off his feet into the bargain; and what with the trampling and the grunting, and the pace at which the unclean beasts went, pack-saddle, armour, Dapple and Rocinante were left scattered on the ground and Sancho and Don Quixote at their wits' end
31. Bullets flew in, demolishing the walls around us practically nonstop
32. Bullets flew in, demolishing the walls around us practically nonstop
33. The central tower of the cathedral was covered by a bird’s nest of rope-and-branch scaffolding where Elfric was demolishing it from the top down
34. With every stroke they began to punish Cal, and Ulbrickson, and the sophomores, and anyone else who might doubt them, unleashing months’ worth of frustration, demolishing the course, hurling their backs into the oncoming wind and rain
35. She declared she could never understand why the survey engineers ever talked of demolishing that old building
36. The Imperial Charisian Navy had already shut down its eastern terminus by moving their armored bombardment ships into Silkiah Bay and demolishing the defending batteries
37. It was essential to blood the new Siddarmarkian formations—to give them actual battlefield experience, and the confidence which went with it, with their new weapons and their new doctrine—just as it was essential to demonstrate to the Army of God that someone besides Charis was fully capable of demolishing it in battle
38. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the nation made him bankrupt
39. There is nothing like the hand of the populace for building everything that is built by demolishing
40. straightly charge and command you, that upon the fight hereof yee doe give speedy notice and order to all such subjects of ours which are under your Comission and gouvernement aswell souldiers which are in garrison in the foresaid fort and habitation of Quebec for defence thereof, as inhabitants, which are there seated and planted, to [conforme themselves unto the sayde agreement and to] 841 render according to the sayd agreement the sayd fort and habitation into the hands of such as shalbe by our sayd brother the French King appoynted and authorised to demand and receave the same from them, in the same state yt was at the tyme of the taking, without demolishing any thing of the fortifications and buildings which were erected at the tyme of the taking, or without carrying away the armes munitions, marchandises or utensills which were then found there in
41. Forasmuch as there is made a finall good agreement betwixt us and our good brother the French King, and that all differences aswell betwixt our Crownes as subjects are settled by a mutuall and perfectt accord, and that amongst other particularytyes on our side, we have consented to the restitution of the fort and habitation of Kebec in Canada, as taken by force of armes since the peace, howsoever the Commission were given out to you during the warre betwixt us and the sayd King: We preferring the accomplishment of our royall word and promise before all whatsoever allegations may be made to the contrary in this behalfe, as wee have obliged ourselves to that King for the due performance thereof by an act passed under our great seale of this our realme of England, soe we doe by these our letres straightly charge and comand you that uppon the first commoditie of sending into parts and meanes for ye people to retoure yee doe give notice and order to all such subjects of ours which are under your Commission and government aswell souldiers which are in garrison in the foresaid fort and habitation of Kebec for defence thereof, as inhabitants, which are there seated and planted, to render according to the sayd agreement the sayd fort and habitation into the hands of such as shalbe by our said brother the French King appoynted and authorised to demaunde and receave the same from them, in the same state yt was at the tyme of the taking, without demolishing any thing of the fortifications and buildings which were erected at the tyme of the taking, or without carrying away the armes munitions merchandises or utensills which were then found therin
42. "And how can you be an official of the government after that, when you agree to demolishing churches, and marching on Petersburg armed with staves, and make it all simply a question of date?"
43. The inhabited parts of the country present a prospect still more pleasing; around the margin of those extensive rich prairies, numerous habitations are seen, withdrawn a short distance in the wood, from the winter's cold and summer's heat—their finely cultivated fields lie in the prairies, which yield at once to the plough, without the previous Herculean labour of demolishing the forest
