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    1. “Ruthie! There’s a raid! Come on out!”


    2. Rose relates a horrifying tale about the bombs which were dropped … some of her family were killed in Bristol in an air raid aimed at one of the factories … and she was also anxious about Wally as they were engaged by then


    3. Ernesto's wife had been killed three years before departure by a group of extremists on what they called a 'drug raid


    4. She was a young girl of 14 summers, badly shaken by the loss of her entire family to a Scather raid


    5. And he had been with Lord Boras since plucked from a Scather raid as a young toddler, he thought to himself angrily


    6. We are all united in that same blood; besides, there are always children needing a home after a Scather raid or a bad winter storm; that was how Kai came to be in my household


    7. “Yes, Kai; my father found him after a terrible raid on the outlying ranches


    8. It seemed that the boys were always getting into trouble for something or other; one particular story of their raid on a house of ‘red ladies’, attempts to get souvenirs, being thoroughly thrashed by the said 'ladies' was extremely funny


    9. What he held was a carefully carved copy of the two Snotaks that had given their lives for the Hold during the Scather raid


    10. His men would spread the word about his defense of Aura against the Scather raid

    11. But then the Scather raid had probably scared the main populace; they were probably hiding in their homes he explained to himself


    12. ‘How about I raid the local off licence, they usually have boxes, and then bring them over


    13. “Oh, it was described as an exploratory raid in the official reports,


    14. If there is a raid he can be through the fire escape door and up onto the roof in seconds


    15. clear what the objective of the raid actually was


    16. The group was permitted to tell its story; haltingly they painted a rich and lively picture of the events surrounding the raid on the farm


    17. Both Patrick and Dom left the room and, less than a minute later, the banshee like howl of an old Second World War air raid siren shattered the clear English air


    18. Raid camps and put tents and other structures to the torch


    19. I saw Kestides and my cousins raid the unprotected farm


    20. To dream that you are in a raid represents your fears that some hidden aspect of your life will be discovered or made public

    21. “That’s good and I’m sorry about the raid we had no idea they had hidden machine guns covering the post we were extremely lucky to get away though we did leave three comrades behind


    22. Anyway we will be returning to the Company in five minutes this raid is a wash out and there is no point in attacking again now they know were here so get yourselves ready for our withdrawal


    23. “It will be an eight man patrol so you will have some others with you who have no doubt volunteered as well and Lieutenant Smith will lead the raid


    24. “I would like to volunteer Sir to go on the raid after all someone needs to keep an eye on this lot otherwise they wouldn’t get more than ten feet?” The CSM nodded his head and replied


    25. “You wait there Johnny nobody is going anywhere because we are all going back together after carrying out a successful raid so keep quite while I tell you the plan


    26. “What the bloody hell happened over there you were supposed to carry out a clandestine raid for intelligence not start an whole out bloody shooting war


    27. There was one bad thing that happened on the night raid that didn’t develop while about two weeks after and that is that Lieutenant Smith died from the wound he picked up


    28. equipment - mainly servers, RAID arrays and


    29. They hadn’t the slightest idea of what conditions were really like nor would they ever be able to grasp the sheer horror and gut wrenching terror of battle or even a raid


    30. As we know, the B-25 raid he led against Tokyo was not suicidal, at least not for him, and it was definitely worth the risk – not, of course, for the physical damage it inflicted, but rather for the psychological blow it landed

    31. In that respect, the raid is reminiscent of the 1968 Vietcong Tet Offensive in South Vietnam which, while a devastating setback militarily, was a huge psychological win for the Vietcong/North Vietnamese, due in no small part that after the offensive became public knowledge, Walter Cronkite (the most trusted man in America) declared the Vietnam War lost to the United States


    32. “Its good to see that you are still alive Pte Lamb, now then we have a bit of a raid planned for tonight but I will let the S/Sgt brief you and I will see you later on”, we saluted and he went off to do whatever he had to


    33. “What’s going on did he just say we had a raid on tonight or was I hearing things?” He replied


    34. “So to this end we are putting on a raid tonight and you men along with S/Sgt Wallace and Lt Pearson will be going on it


    35. Simply remember this if we don’t get a prisoner tonight then another raid will have to go out again tomorrow night or keep going out until we secure a prisoner


    36. “I will brief you again closer to the time of the raid informing you of what’s what and what you need to know”, after this Major Danby dismissed us and we left the bunker


    37. So we along with more bombing squads up and down the line were chosen to mount a raid in two nights time all along the our section of the front


    38. So we just waited for the time of the raid to come around everyone knowing just how dangerous these things could be a dangerous pastime for anyone


    39. The day before the raid an incident happened that I really should have taken more notice of I had just been to the latrine and had come back round the corner of the blast wall


    40. But at the moment I had bigger fish to fry I was now thinking of the raid tomorrow night and wondering if I would return from it in one piece or even at all

    41. The raid went off without serious incident we made it to the German trenches and shook them up a bit but there artillery gave us a bit of concern as we made our way back to our lines


    42. They said that as a matter of fact the Germans were being unusually quite apart from trying the odd prisoner raid or two and to tell the truth they were being much too quite


    43. A raid had been planned for further down the trenches it was to go in and see what damage had been done to the wire and the German troops


    44. Then word was passed down the line that the raid had gone over the top and we listened from out vantage point for any noise


    45. All of a sudden we heard the sound of rifle and machine gun fire and then flares lit up the night sky where the raid was taking place


    46. “What’s happening Sir did the raid go well did they get in?” He replied


    47. Stretcher parties came past us with black faced men on them who had been wounded whilst taking part in the raid


    48. “This is no good lads those bum boys on the Staff will want another raid this time to grab prisoners and you can bet your life that the Hun will be waiting for us


    49. ” Ted was right and the next night we had to put a raid over in our sector to grab one or more prisoners if we could


    50. Raid on the Whaling Fleet












































    1. But he had raided the granary, though he claimed that he had no memory of doing so


    2. treasure was not there when the Paris Temple was raided


    3. With that resolved, I raided the sock drawer for three hundred dollars, got dressed in


    4. Used to taking care of herself in her dad’s absences, Dawn raided the kitchen cupboards and cooked herself a breakfast of scrambled egg, grilled bacon and tomatoes, plus two slices of toast


    5. SAP COIN always wanted to become fatherly (it is the SAP way) but he avoided them quite wisely for the Rhodesians raided Zambia a few times during their Bush War and many of those men were by now in the South African Special Forces Regiment with immeasurable more fire power and spoiling to have another go


    6. Why should we be? I am convinced, because I saw it with my own eyes, that in Nigeria every foreign Corporation is raided over the December period just before Christmas by the tax officials


    7. That caused uproar for it turned out that 5 raided and arrested the wrong room full of innocent men


    8. LP asked Donny, "What's the chances of been raided?" to which he replied, "None, look over there


    9. They knew his answer “How many times have my pots been raided? I'm just returning the favour


    10. “The Allegiant raided their first weapons storehouse a few days ago,” the young woman sitting at the control room desk nearest to us says over her shoulder

    11. Tell them the house was raided, the boys were picked up, the headphones and bomb kit were found, and the boys gave up Nigel


    12. I replied, “The police raided Desmond Thompson’s house first thing this morning


    13. Apparently most of the tribes along the coast spoke a similar language but were always fighting among themselves since they practiced cannibalism and raided their neighbors for victims


    14. “You have raided the Overlord’s treasury?”


    15. They raided the northern frontier of the Han Dynasty for centuries, finally conquering and displacing them as the Chao Dynasty (AD 304–52)


    16. I had raided her apartment yesterday, trying to find things that would help me decide what to do with the party


    17. ” I breathed and he smiled, he played me a couple more melodies then I raided the iPod on its docking station


    18. In 1992, after police raided her labs and one of her safe houses, the Ice


    19. In 1992, after police raided her labs and one of


    20. raided her labs and one of her safe houses, the Ice Queen got on a plane

    21. parents’ house was raided by this time as well


    22. earlier that morning when her apartment was raided


    23. No Norse folk have raided over there before, but it sounds very promising


    24. "There were maps in the place you raided


    25. away from their camp, when the Amalekites came and raided the


    26. I put together a crew of about twenty guys ages twelve to seventeen, and we made money continuously for two years before the Feds raided us


    27. "Raided our hut," we told them


    28. First thing he raided the cupboards


    29. Sure enough, the equivalent of the Military Police raided the joint and took down our names for being AWOL


    30. “My instruction from Jacob before he fled was to flick the switch under my hand if we were raided and this would initiate a self destruction routine for the foetuses

    31. This place had enough gas, including the cars that I raided, to get us almost a full tank


    32. What did we do? Raided the liquor cabinets at home! We were able to purchase a few bottles, but when we brought together what we found in both my parents house and their house, we had a lot of alcohol available and took home what wasn’t used


    33. We would also know that our pots had been raided if there were no crabs in it and all the bait was gone


    34. Poachers had raided our pots but at least had the decency and humor to leave us something


    35. With flushing, I refused by arguing, not being familiar with the pace that was playing, attributing also to my trip a nonexistent weariness, but Americus that was as stubborn as convincing, and possessed the intellectual wisdom of the geniuses, and in consequence, was immune to the fictitious excuses, raided into our spirits with the rhetoric of reason and in seconds both, the magician and I, were dancing under the harmonic notes of a sweetened melody


    36. “The police raided the warehouse last night


    37. "We about to get raided," her mother warned


    38. Raymond knew in a day or two, the whole block was getting raided


    39. I'd stumbled upon a very upmarket, public pick-up joint that would have been raided by police in England, and the owners, clients and rent boys would all have ended in court


    40. If the place ever really got raided, they still had bail and lawyer money stashed throughout the projects

    41. At four 0' clock in the morning the next day, eight drug stash houses got raided


    42. But in just a little over a month the food was starting to run out, even despite all the grocery stores, homes, restaurants, and warehouses that the survivors raided


    43. had left the liquor bottles intact and instead raided the fridges for bottles of water and soda


    44. Together they successfully raided many caravans from Becca, they had repelled the army of Becca when they attacked at Badr


    45. With shaking hands he raided the barman’s stash and rolling himself a big fat joint poured yet another double tequila into his glass and wandered over to one of the only upright tables, sobbing, to sit and smoke and drink


    46. “The club has been raided and Ruth is missing, as are the tapes she made for


    47. This was bourn out by the fact that his flat was raided and money taken by two lads he suspected of doing so who attended the racing and had been in his flat once


    48. 'The Zuagirs have fought with and raided Khauran for centuries, without success, but they resent its conquest by their western kin


    49. but thought that David raided in Israel,


    50. They raided the shipping, and harried the Zingaran coast towns, just as the Zingaran buccaneers did, but these dignified their profession by calling themselves Freebooters, while they dubbed the Barachans pirates













































    1. “A Scather raiding party,” she shivered for a moment, “there are so many of them this time; they are in the compound already,” her high-pitched voice told Duncan she was close to panicking


    2. She had scooped up the girl and taken her with them as they continued on tracking the raiding party


    3. “And,” he held up his large finger and whispered in a low voice, “there is one known case of one hunting down and attacking a Scather raiding party that landed in its territory


    4. I am sure he has a plan in place to destroy the raiding party, but only after my death


    5. “Did she accuse you of raiding the crops?”


    6. Though they both had found a way to make a lucrative living by raiding the chopa dealers' hideouts, despite Alec's efforts to dissuade her, the elf woman insisted on distributing her share to Shattered Rock's impoverished


    7. His recognized it, having raiding it in the past


    8. “I want you lads to join our raiding party which will be about twenty strong


    9. After a while we wheeled over to our right and met up with the raiding party as Ted Wallace said


    10. ” I got my shirt and tunic back on with a little help from Eli and Elijah and then a very subdued raiding party made its way back to the Company which hadn’t moved and still held the same position as when we had left

    11. likelihood that his ship would not be able to resume her raiding activities, Alabama’s Captain Semmes challenged Kearsarge Captain John Winslow to a ship-to-ship duel


    12. surrender of the various Confederate raiding forces, and the


    13. “No not really the raiding party didn’t get in they bogged down before the German wire which by the way is nearly all in tact


    14. No one wanted to remind Bear that there were laws against raiding someone else's crab pots


    15. At first it hadn’t seemed like much, at an earlier time it had just appeared to be caravan raiding that the Eastern Christian and Persian enemies tried to ignore, as they exhausted each other


    16. In what seemed like only hours, the Ardarans started raiding


    17. You ought to think of raiding the costumes and fit yourself out in caricature


    18. It seemed more like a raiding party


    19. When King Lambi refused to join them, the other kings worried that when they were off raiding this new land, Sogn and Førde would be left without much defence, and King Lambi might be tempted to invade and take them over


    20. Most of them smeared blue paint around their eyes: raiding was a very special occasion

    21. In raiding, making panic is the main goal


    22. The early-summer sun was bright that morning, the air nicely warm, and the arrival of the ships meant that many Fjordane-fighters (who had been away since mid-winter: crossing Nis glacier, fighting a battle, occupying Sogndal, raiding England) would soon see their wives, girlfriends, parents, children and extended families again


    23. She had heard Henrick’s tales along the trail about how he would have safe houses assigned during a campaign in which his men could visit when raiding an enemy’s lands during the harsh winters


    24. Last night he had received information that a group was being put together to form a raiding party but did not know when the raid was


    25. The other group were in a drugged state locked in their rooms and could not provide any information to the raiding party


    26. Other attacks were made by small groups of men descending from the mountains and raiding German troops when they least expected it


    27. Every now he had to throw them a bust so he usually gave them Madame Rich, who they got tired of raiding most of the time because they never found nothing, or one of his other local competitors


    28. This was their seventh raid, and Dana had long ago realized that raiding wasn’t quite as fun as she’d thought it would be


    29. A gaunt old chief elected himself to this position, shook his tulwar at Conan as a preamble, and shouted accusingly: 'You would not let us go raiding Peshkhauri to rescue our brothers!'


    30. Villages and farms lay close to the foot of the hills on the western side of the mountains, for, for half a century, most of the raiding across the frontier had been done by the Aquilonians

    31. cops raiding and taking records


    32. As they left, Greg was pleased to see Myra directing the group in raiding what little remained in the disabled shuttle’s food lockers and loading the contents into the life rafts


    33. Most of these had been expanded to storerooms because that was the only way to keep the home-coons from raiding the stored foodstuffs


    34. raiding groups of Japanese Macaques; they have an inherent fear


    35. raiding, lions, leopards and birds of prey


    36. and retaliation killings for crop raiding


    37. occur for raiding rice paddy fields


    38. the people would have probably tried sabotaging the boats and raiding


    39. of this year, the first ever act of military aggression through time occurred in London, when a raiding force of three Imperium ships looking for one of their scientists attacked Buckingham Palace and kidnapped the King’s equerry and young Princess Margaret, who were then transported to the Imperium capital in 3386 ‘B’


    40. The Time Patrol, which is tasked by the Global Council to prevent illegal time travel and protect history from irresponsible tampering, reacted to the Imperium raid, shooting down two of the raiding ships

    41. � Major Nancy Laplante, Special Military Advisor to the Prime Minister, was part of the raiding force, along with a Canadian Army female nurse


    42. � Both Major Laplante and Nurse Patricia Wilson, along with five other members of the raiding force, are due to be decorated for bravery at Buckingham Palace tomorrow


    43. � Another raiding force, led by the famous Colonel Laplante and composed of British and French troops, liberated the inmates of the concentration camp of Neuengamme, situated near Hamburg


    44. Fisher came to the conclusion that the only course of action for potential enemies would be commerce raiding to strike at the empire’s supply lines


    45. Prinz Eugen, unharmed in the battle, should attempt commerce raiding on her own, whilst Bismarck was to proceed to the port of Brest


    46. Such raiding forces would not require the huge naval backup entailed by full-blown commando assault units


    47. Following Stirling's capture the SAS was reorganised into two separate parts, the Special Raiding Squadron and the Special Boat Section (the forerunner of the Special Boat Service)


    48. Promoted to Major, Mayne was appointed to command the Special Raiding Squadron and he led the unit with distinction


    49. She now had no choice but to hope that the Navy fighters now rushing in could deal with the raiding force from the Northeast with the help of Helen Richey, as she was now obviously the only one who could deal in time with the new threat


    50. Since we have only a limited number of YC-10 VSTOL transport aircraft that we can use for such a raid, you will need to limit your raiding force to no more than 280 men, so that we have some space for liberated prisoners










































    1. “Captain,” began Tarak, “have any of the other Holds reported any more raids?”


    2. If what this female says is true, they have used a great many of their males in the constant raids on our home world


    3. There were fights over garden boundaries and neighborhood sentries and raids by the constables


    4. These would be used later on either on raids or as offensive defensive weapons when you used the bombs you would light the fuse and let it burn for a few seconds and then heave it


    5. We had also received orders from the Staff that we should begin more offensive raids against the Huns to shake them up and keep them on their toes


    6. I tried to keep things as light as I could in my letters keeping the blood gore and boredom out of them I also never told her how many raids I had been on because I didn’t want to frighten her


    7. This did not suit the Staff at all and they ordered more offensive raids again this was done with the intensions of stirring the Germans up into an attack


    8. This would have weakened them just before our ‘Big Push’ got underway which if everyone was to be believed was not far off now though we would rather have had it quite as these raids could get you killed before you had even had the chance to take part in the forthcoming battle


    9. was noted for his lightning-quick raids and his ability to


    10. “I know you want me on the raids with you because I’m a good marksman but I wish you would find someone else because one of these times our luck is going to run out and when that happens its good bye so next time choose someone else

    11. “Sorry Billy Boy I quite forgot how many raids we had been on but you are a sort of good luck charm to me and anyway who wants to live forever?” We went over the top that night and I was one of the riflemen and Frank had his homemade cosh a pistol and some bombs he was part of the snatch party that was once again led by Lt Pearson


    12. ” Little did we know that they weren’t and that they would send out more and more prisoner raids in the coming days? Ted Wallace turned up and had a chat with us saying


    13. vessels from destructive raids by the CSS Shenandoah in the Pacific and Arctic Ocean regions


    14. They were built to accompany the merchant ships guarding against pirate raids, as piracy was commonplace in the great sea and to the south


    15. But yes, I have been a part of a few raids in my time, most of them successful


    16. But was that fair? Should she choose the man who reacted the most to her presence, at the detriment to the care of the keep as a whole? What if she chose a partner for her heart, and the keep then fell during one of the raids by the MacDougals?


    17. Thirdly South African Army Special Forces known as the Reconnaissance Regiment worked with the Rhodesian SAS (Special Air Service) and formed a separate troop doing external raids and reconnaissance


    18. The Rhodesian forces made many pre-emptive strikes called raids into neighbouring countries to disrupt the terrorists before they could get to Rhodesia and though very successful in kills it was too little too late


    19. In general the moral was very high but as we saw in Rhodesia their actual contribution limited to chance contacts unless on external raids


    20. Some were captured during the external raids

    21. At the same time, General James Doolittle, famed for his early raids, opposed targeting civilians as, “Terrorism, without any justification on military grounds


    22. Other than a major offensive build-up, there really is no way to entice the enemy forces to fly over our lines, other than occasional strategic reconnaissance, night bombing, or nuisance raids


    23. The enemy has felt the sting of our raids, conducted by airships, bombers, torpedo planes and even ‘Ship’s Camels,’ which sometimes operated at night


    24. Then, those desert raids became ever more daring, penetrating deeper with each thrust until the shattered, rather vacant homeland of the Jews, and the porous southwestern borders of the Persians collapsed completely, and the danger to the surrounding lands went unrecognized until almost too late


    25. There had been some raids and even some pitched battles of cavalry and infantry versus cavalry and infantry


    26. ” That America, the Senator intoned, would be tormented by midnight police raids, segregated lunch counters, back alley abortions, and courthouse doors “locked on the fingers of millions of citizens


    27. She looked around but found no evidence of further raids on her clothing


    28. There was the usual orientation to fraternity life, pledge raids, meetings, and parties


    29. “What’s the Serminaki method of attack on these terror raids?”


    30. There have been no more raids, yet the entire nation is on the highest alert

    31. The lightly armed cutter survived several Japanese bombing raids as it laid channel markers and buoys for Allied warships and escorted cargo vessels and fuel tankers


    32. ranks of the Ico crime scene and several raids on H


    33. "Think of Indian raids in pioneer days


    34. Apparently, during the government raids, they found evidence linking Gates to CERKO, as a sympathizer who supplied explosives


    35. The Uphrians were once a proud and wild independent warrior race living on the extremes of the north Aristrian borders, they had been conquered many years ago, but at a high price after their constant raids into the rich Aristrian farm lands could no longer be tolerated


    36. From the railway station you could look clean across the rubble all the way to Altona, but in spite of the depressing devastation we decided to visit one of those few places which had miraculously survived the raids until now; the notoriously sinful, wonderful, boisterous, immense, fully packed night-club just off the Reeperbahn, the Jungmühle


    37. For some reason, the nocturnal air raids turned to daytime attacks and most nights were now calm


    38. The air raids have multiplied and bombs rain down on the anti aircraft


    39. Jacob did not expect any raids yet but was prepared anyway


    40. The raid we are planning will be timed to coincide with raids on every suspect facility that we are aware of

    41. “Simultaneously with this, Interpol and a number of overseas agencies will be conducting raids in most of the areas where we suspect Jacob to be active with illegal drug manufacturing


    42. My father told stories of the sacrifices of people caught in raids like these, and I did not want to die


    43. I had never been so careless in my raids to the mall, nor


    44. Last but not least, a major dent was supposedly put in the War on drugs with the raids and sweeps that were orchestrated throughout the city


    45. She knew that, eventually, she would have to talk to Mama about D’ven and everything that had happened on the raids


    46. The raids had to be


    47. They had thought about the timing of the raids carefully and


    48. and raids were as common as minor car accidents for us


    49. Iraqi bombers continued carrying out raids on the military camp and the neighboring cities and villages


    50. Soon the air raids just became part of our routine













































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    Synonyms for "raid"

    raid foray maraud foray into bust invade attack assault storm assail forage plunder invasion onset seizure incursion

    "raid" definitions

    a sudden short attack


    an attempt by speculators to defraud investors


    search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on


    enter someone else's territory and take spoils


    take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock


    search for something needed or desired