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1. And Molly…she’s the kind of person who fries ants with a magnifying glass just to watch them flail around
2. He started to flail in circles and, in the
3. The legs continued to flail, and Bryony heard a muted cry from inside the pile of turnips
4. I flew into his arms, knocking the crook and flail out of his lap
5. This time I pul ed out a pair of familiar weapons—the crook and flail,
6. The idea of using the crook and flail made me
7. I grasped the crook and flail in one hand and held Zia’s hand with the
8. He offered the sun god the crook and flail, but Ra shook his head
9. Carter stared at the crook and flail in his hands
10. and flail melted into plumage
11. He pul ed out the crook and flail, which were
12. Carter waded forward, swinging his flail and crook as if he had trained
13. with his flail, and each spiked chain became a rope of fire
14. Carter raised his crook and flail
15. You carry the crook and flail,
16. I brandished the crook and flail
17. hand throbbing, my crook and flail smoking with red-gray ooze—the blood
18. She had a small lantern her hand and a flail made of coarse horsehair
19. Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:
20. Ingrid, apparently most eager to fight, jumped to the center of the circle and made her flail turn over her head
21. Screaming a war cry, Ingrid advanced on her and slammed her shield against Elizabeth’s shield at the same time she hit the British teenager’s helmet with her flail with a loud noise
22. However, Ingrid Weiss showed surprising expertise with her flail, a notoriously difficult weapon to master
23. He held it for a third minute, until that smallest of the trolls began to flail his arms and legs in the water
24. He couldn’t even flail
25. Mesmerized by that scene, Anne Marie Louise watched on as the four first soldiers to approach the girl were greeted by a flurry of flail swings and high kicks and sent sprawling to the ground in seconds, to the astonishment of all around her
26. The first two got slapped on the temple by her baton flail and collapsed to the ground, followed quickly by two more men
27. Haberclad snapped a lantern from the ceiling and swung it from the chain like a flail; and Hal pulled me under a table, where it was near black
28. About halfway across the room I kicked it up a notch and began to flail my arms and legs about as wildly as I could
29. the chained flail and small spiked and bladed shield was sort of squat
30. That one with the flail and bladed buckler is
31. edge of the coffee table and held up its arm with the flail in what I took to
32. severe overhanded blow with Sue’s Gosens’ flail that was only partially
33. Zem’s Kolor deflected the flail with its shield as it stepped aside
34. The milk thistle resembled a medieval flail with its thick green stem topped with a green spiked head
35. In Petrarch's "Africa" and Albricus' "Allegoriae Poeticae" Mars comes, furious, full-bearded, in his blood-stained, three-horse chariot; he is in full armor, a shining helmet upon his head, a three-roped flail in his left hand
36. " He knows he's on thin ice with that one, but he's running out of excuses and he's starting to flail
37. She continued to flail her fists upon his chest even as she thought that she was going to lose consciousness from lack of breath
38. Gasping Elm tried to grab at Pine's hand but the other hand grabbed his tied hands, so all he could do was flail at Pine, who was not budging
39. he started to flail once
40. dressed in white with crook and flail
41. Alric wasn’t surprised to see her flail tucked into her belt
42. If an enemy were to get that flail, it would be less effective in their hands,” Alric added
43. She started to get mad and when she readied her flail, he hit her
44. He was cowering in the corner as she pummeled him with that flail
45. Most waved and smiled, but some looked at her questioningly, and she couldn’t help but check to make sure her flail was still on her hip
46. Kyrin reached out and pulled her flail from her belt, and then smiled when Finn gasped and instantly had his sword readied
47. “No then,” she said, and started for her flail
48. She walked over and grabbed her flail with her good hand, and then tucked it into her belt
49. Kyrin had just entered with her arm in a sling and her flail on her left side
50. That girl can hand-to-hand with the big boys and always has her flail with her
1. She flailed about and roared as the battle continued
2. flailed against the auditorium carpet
3. Joe flailed what legs he had, twisting and turning in Bobby’s grip
4. Meanwhile, his feet flailed around, desperately searching the cliff’s face for anything to regain his footing
5. But Tragus jumped away each time Homer flailed, laughing with derision
6. Realizing that she was already awake, Nerissa flailed on the cave floor
7. Ben's arms flailed as he tried to shout instructions to Carol
8. Some of the beasts had leapt into the town from the catwalk, and there they flailed about desperately, knowing that they would soon be overcome
9. His arms flailed awkwardly in the attempt to maintain his balance and he felt the rope slipping through his hand as his grip loosened
10. Sven’s trench coat flailed
11. She flailed to the ground with the pain, but Orphenn was quick to heal her,
12. She flailed her arms, trying to catch her balance
13. Sierra flailed her arms, just as she had done in the vision as she was falling backwards
14. “But that’s just it, Youssaf!” Surprised at the severity of his own retort, Moshe irritably flailed his arms upward as he shifted his stance slightly, “Assir’s grumbling aside, something has been bothering me since we got here! All the while we’ve been trying to fix this stuff up, it’s been nagging at me
15. “I don’t fall right here!” he exclaimed in momentary panic as he flailed in the air
16. “Simon! Help me,” she panted as she flailed about for some hook to hang her thought on
17. “But that's just it, Youssaf!” Surprised at the severity of his own retort, Moshe irritably flailed his arms upward as he shifted his stance slightly, “Assir's grumbling aside, something has been
18. They were much larger than we’d supposed, and the ship flailed
19. She had embarrassingly managed to get the shirt stuck around her breasts but now her arms wildly flailed the air, struggling to wriggle the protective links down over her lithe form
20. His eyes rolled upwards and his legs flailed around wildly as the last essence of his soul was sucked from his body and a new entity swirled within the Soul Beast’s translucent fangs
21. His swords flailed the air in panic, struggling to strike the large arms that held him in their vice like grip
22. Greg flailed his arms around, falling bare assed on broken glass
23. " Zoe flailed her arms in rage
24. He flailed, clawing at his chest, then began to disintegrate-not like my mother, in a flash of golden light, but like crumbling sand, blown away in chunks by the wind, the same way Mrs
25. He flailed his arms wildly for a fraction of an instant—the stones atop the tower were wet and slippery—before regaining his balance
26. His terrible arms flailed down, but Conan, quicker than the archers who had died beneath those awful flails, avoided their strokes and struck again and yet again
27. Before the Pict could straighten, the red sword flailed down and clove him from shoulder to mid-breastbone, where the blade stuck
28. Swords missed her again and again as the wielders flailed the empty air and died with her point in their hearts or throats, and her mocking laughter in their ears
29. Dead or dying, it flailed its six legs and two claws frantically, while its barbed tail snaked wildly on the ground
30. He screamed and flailed the air with his arms
31. “And this is my sister, I’us,” said S’us, wiggling the sock puppet so the arms flailed pointlessly
32. Clastaan flailed his arms about madly and said, “All of you stop this foolishness!”
33. The viceroy wailed and flailed about
34. She kicked and flailed them, and his eyes grew larger, his body pressing heavier against her
35. Her skinny arms and legs flailed at the man
36. I flailed and swung,
37. A hand lashed out, striking him through the gut, and the robot looked him in the eye as he flailed on the blades, injuring himself even further
38. The Policeman swung and flailed his arms wildly, trying to
39. Kathy’s fists flailed the air
40. flailed his arms as he took flight and then landed on the muddy ground
41. Grey said as he flailed an arm toward the balcony
42. I discovered as I flailed across 42nd Street that I couldn’t walk straight and I couldn't think
43. He regained his breath, glowering at the demon as it tried to stand from the wreckage, its arm had been broken and now it flailed in the rubble
44. The question that struck as we slapped ourselves stupid and flailed around was
45. The wizard flailed around in panic
46. He flailed out at them as he ran past, intent on
47. It flailed wildly, roaring in pain
48. As the belt of the treadmill thundered along at a rapid pace Ben’s feet flailed out underneath him, grabbing on for dear life his hands lunged at the safety bars gripping them like they would grip a roofs edge should they be hanging off them
49. She kicked her feet and flailed her arms, but the pull of the water was too strong to fight against
50. He vainly flailed at the branches of a tree, and then
1. She hung there for a second, arms flailing, while others ran to grab her
2. in spite of the mad flailing
3. and hands and arms flailing at thickly whiskered air
4. I went under, flailing about and rolling over and over
5. They couldn't have a crazy person out in general admittance flailing around
6. In the confusion caused by her flailing hooves, I go under the water, coming up spluttering and spitting water with my hair in my eyes
7. was bundle Karen into the back of the car, with her flailing boots
8. Tensed to leap if she should get the chance, she had flinched as Chas’s flailing hand had brushed her leg
9. As the big blue and yellow flailing brushes descend on the car, I pat Sam’s head, she’s not too sure about this bit and cowers down on the seat
10. Her flailing was minimal, because it was hard to fight and cover herself
11. Alec was flailing about, rambling while the little red imp hovered over him, an inquisitive look on its face
12. "It's you! The Destroyer," she said, her white hair flailing about
13. Every Satday after Midsum fair Grandpa would do his stuff and they never got tired of watching the flapping and flailing of regimented canvas wrapping up
14. Adros dropped back to avoid the monster’s flailing arms
15. Her arms were flailing as she tried to maintain her balance while galloping towards them, her hair bouncing in the wind
16. with arms and legs flailing away
17. “The bomb went off?” he said, bringing his flailing hand and foot back to the rungs of the ladder
18. “Do you know what that Son of yours did?”His arms were flailing and the look in his dark eyes would have made a sandstorm look calm
19. And then they were both struggling again but his feet were flailing in thin air for a foothold but there was no foothold and the realization of what was happening sheared across his mind
20. Then she began the Healing, waves of ice flowed through his form, he shivered, then convulsed, fighting to avoid flailing his arms and legs; his fists and jaw clenched
21. Manna moved forward, flailing his sword in clear and methodical fashion like a trained swordsman that he was
22. Maldynado skidded to a stop, arms flailing to keep from crashing into Sicarius
23. Darkburst came awake with a start, his heart hammering in his chest and his legs flailing wildly
24. Galeron flew back into space, arced into the center of the pit, and with arms and legs flailing, he began descending into the darkness
25. He fell, his limbs flailing the ground with such force that it was a wonder his bones did not break
26. Eyes unfocused, limbs flailing, Henry swayed on his feet, as though having trouble staying upright
27. But Mike imagined that, just as the poor bastard realized he’d lost control, with the reins torn from his grip and his legs flailing from the stirrups, he’d heard a much less authentic cry of alarm followed by the sound of Caroline’s unrestrained laughter ringing in his ears because, according to Caroline, it was just then that her composure broke and she sagged into her saddle, weakened by peals of laughter that the unfortunate oaf couldn’t have missed
28. I tried to kick him in the nuts to shut him up before he would say anything to deteriorate the already tenuous atmosphere or broach subjects that would only lead to more questions; I failed though, wildly flailing my leg as if something horrible was chewing on it
29. wildly flailing in circles in an effort to regain his balance
30. As the demon roared in excruciating pain for the last time, it fell on its back with its hoofed feet wildly flailing in the air
31. But that doesn’t mean you can’t die, Bobby,” she said with her arms at her waist while a mangled, half-dead sky-demon crashed a few yards away, flailing wildly in its death throes
32. I grinned smugly and then I saw tens of thousands of the demons roar, growl and howl, wildly flailing their weapons and shouting a mix of obscenities and curses that even though indecipherable in their abyssal tongues, their intended purpose was clear enough
33. Miraculously, his flailing arm encountered a burned timber and he dragged himself back to safety
34. Couldn’t the man let her get at him once more, just once? She screamed her hatred, stretching her grasp towards the worm, fists and clawing fingernails flailing the air futilely
35. Argyl writhed and blood leaked from the blade, his arm hung limp, he was screaming and flailing but useless, he was flung bleeding away
36. He couldn’t breathe or move, one hand flailing wildly at the man’s face with no effect, while his knife hand was all bloodied as each strike buried the blade inside the man who would refuse to give up or die
37. He had completed repairs to the flailing rigging before the storm had fully abated
38. “Hey! Hey! That’s James, always on time!” said Ethan as he started flailing his hands wildly and jumping up and down
39. Besides, his Chevy was “tired” and a flailing connecting rod fifty miles from home was not a cherished thought
40. A voice made her turn, robes and hair flailing in the free wind
41. back, the creature howled, its burning tail flailing wildly behind it
42. With a flailing arm, Cloud frantically motioned Tifa in the
43. By now, the whole camp was alive with jumping, flailing, screaming, and cursing humanity, as the realization sank in
44. His pounding legs kicked up the sand as his flailing arms reached vainly ahead of him for help that wasn’t there
45. He wriggled his fingers until he got a firm hold and pulled on the horse’s head till it pointed uphill, closely followed by another paroxysm of flailing legs
46. Flashing a stricken momentary glance laced with confusion over her shoulder, she tripped and fell face-first onto the ground, flailing arms and legs billowing the dust that exploded up from the earth
47. Scarcely had she come to ground, she then rolled on her back, tightly balled fists blindly flailing the air
48. One of her hands had been pulled loose and was flailing the air just as Sari slid over the side
49. “No longer there? No longer there? Where did it go?” The exaggerated flailing of his arms that accompanied the last question made it obvious what his “lord” had thought of this scout’s report
50. He struggled to raise his head as his horse, legs flailing, slowly rolled off from its side
1. He flails his arms at something or someone only he can see
2. He mutters and flails his arms about
3. His terrible arms flailed down, but Conan, quicker than the archers who had died beneath those awful flails, avoided their strokes and struck again and yet again
4. Loco, who stops and flails his arms about pretending he can't
5. The old men on the rising straw-rick talked of the past days when they had been accustomed to thresh with flails on the oaken barn-floor; when everything, even to winnowing, was effected by hand-labour, which, to their thinking, though slow, produced better results
6. Devon’s arm flails in what he hopes is a casual greeting
7. It is not a difficult matter to thresh with several flails, but to keep in order, not to get confused (and not only to thresh, but not to interfere with the others), one has only to remember oneself, one’s own tempo while beating
