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1. and the drag of a sledge on cobbles,
2. It was not long after this, that Kay came one day with large gloves on, and his little sledge at his back, and yelled at Gerda's ears, "I have permission to go out into the square where the others are playing"; and he was off
3. Just as they were having the most fun, a large sledge passed by: it was painted quite white, and there was someone in it wrapped up in a rough white mantle of fur, with a rough white fur cap on his head
4. The sledge drove round the square twice, and Kay tied on his sledge as quickly as he could, and off he drove with it
5. Every time he was going to untie his sledge, the person nodded to him, and then Kay sat quiet; and so on they went till they came outside the gates of the town
6. Then the snow began to fall so thickly that the little boy could not see an arm's length before him, but still on he went: when suddenly he let go the string he held in his hand in order to get loose from the sledge, but it was of no use; still the sled rushed on with the quickness of the wind
7. He then cried as loud as he could, but no one beard him; the snow drifted and the sledge flew on
8. " And she put him in the sledge beside her, wrapped the fur round him, and he felt as though he were sinking in a bank of fresh white snow
9. "My sledge! Do not forget my sledge!" It was the first thing he thought of
10. It was there tied to one of the white chickens, who flew along with it on his back behind the large sledge
11. He had taken the wheels off the cart and Nimblefax was siting in it for a change whilst Lemoss pulled it along as a sledge
12. It was bare of snow; in fact there was no snow even on the roadway opposite Granny’s gate, and the sledge ground to a halt
13. The arrow struck the man’s forehead and his skull exploded like a ripe melon under a sledge hammer
14. On Christmas Eve Santa Claus came in his sledge heaped high with
15. Santa got out of his sledge and waded up
16. With his finger, he traced the oval outline of the window and recalled how those words had crushed him as though with a sledge
17. someone had hit me in the forehead with a sledge hammer and it had made me happy
18. In it was Tony Blair with a sledge hammer and a room full of rocks
19. They did not greet the returning time travelers, and each of them was holding a sledge hammer
20. “Right boys,” Billy shouted, “tool up!” The gang pulled weapons out of their jackets including a sledge hammer and several heavy crowbars; they charged at the United gang at the east end of the tunnel and began to smash at the lads with their weapons
21. The marks of fire, of ax and sledge and chisel showed on it but as scratches
22. The words of the song by Sister Sledge truly ring out here:
23. It was like a sledge hammer hitting him ful in the stomach, it
24. The sheer expense of the rape kit was a sledge hammer
25. So, we invade a nation over this because some dissidents lucked out with the box cutters and took over some of our own airplanes to use as bombs? Isn’t that like killing a gnat with a sledge hammer after running through a hornets nest to get there? What about collateral kill when we invade? Haven’t we killed 10 times more of their civilians (than what died in the towers) trying to find the bad guys
26. Police marksmen struck their target repeatedly; the sledge hammer impact of the bullets on the bag was testimony to that
27. The head of the sledge gets stuck in the wall
28. He cautiously unsticks the sledge from the wall, then returns to Dolly
29. He lifts the sledge with both hands and hefts it to a swinging position
30. He raises the sledge over his head
31. The sledge falls, and he collapses onto it
32. Sledge strode over to the busted out window and gazed out into the humid night
33. “You see, I know everything about you,” Sledge said in a condescending tone
34. Sledge slapped the back of Ramon’s head with his open hand
35. “What’s that?” Sledge asked sarcastically
36. Sledge walked back over to Ramon
37. Sledge stood up, and sheathed his blade
38. Sledge scratched the underside of his chin with the tubular device
39. Sledge reached into his other cargo pocket
40. Sledge felt the cartilage in the goon’s beak give way
41. Sledge depressed the narrow end of the detonator as he stood facing his pride and joy
42. Sledge turned his expressionless face to the orange pillar of destruction
43. Sledge recognized the number without even thinking
44. A few moments later, Sledge dropped himself into the booth across the aisle from where the others sat
45. “I hope this is worth it,” Sledge said from his makeshift pillow
46. “Morning guys,” she said as she slumped into the booth across from Sledge
47. That could make our lives miserable, Sledge said
48. It had been a long haul to get out to east, but Sledge had done just the same
49. Sledge stretched out his weary muscles as he strode over to his counterpart waiting in her ‘20 Mustang
50. “Come on,” Sledge said playfully
1. ship was sledged across the ridge from Korinthos
1. horse-drawn sledges could be used
2. would load up the wagons or sledges again – there was always
3. There, in the market-place, some of the boldest of the boys used to tie their sledges to the carts as they passed by, and so got a good ride
4. They followed the same route by which ships were hauled on sledges over the ridge to the port of Isthmia on the Saronic Gulf
5. The clash and clangor of steel was as that of a million sledges on as many anvils
6. These included three 16 pound stone sledges, several Cleveland model tackle blocks with long lengths of stout rope, three Disston's type cross cut saws for two man tree cutting, four stone picks of seven pounds each, two toothed stone mason's hammers of ten pounds each, six pointed quarry picks, various steel wedges, a large stone cutter's saw called a Frig Bob, a smaller starting saw called a Razzor, a triangular file to sharpen saw teeth, two drill braces, a pedal operated grinding stone of 60 pounds for sharpening of the other tools, and an assortment of small hand tools
7. Our drivers start to tell us about the construction and use of the sledges
8. They would all do better to put their faces on the curbs and wait for the boys who come through the city dragging sledges stacked with corpses
9. went towards the mounds, whence came the clank of the chains of sledges as they slipped down or were dragged up, the rumble of the sliding sledges, and the sounds of merry voices
10. They had race horses, and Russian pancakes and bear hunts and three-horse sledges, and gypsies and drinking feasts, with the Russian accompaniment of broken crockery
11. At the crossroads by Gazetoy Place, where there are always crowds of carriages and sledges, Alexey Alexandrovitch suddenly heard his
12. The carriage drove into the courtyard, and Stepan Arkadyevitch rang loudly at the entrance where sledges were standing
13. Farther off the merchants waited with their mules and wayns and sand sledges
14. In 1895 the Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen got closer to the North Pole than anyone else had managed, until the Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson finally got there in 1909 using Inuit-style sledges and dogs
15. on 14 December 1911 by a Norwegian party of five men led by Captain Roald Amundsen (1872–1928), after a 53-day march with dog sledges from the Bay of Whales
16. She made the trip from the Ross ice shelf – with re-supplies – while pulling two sledges and without the support of kites or any other aids to propulsion
17. (For carrying equipment and sledges see On the Move)
18. Duroc and Lobau followed in open sledges
19. I loved cruelty; am I not a bug, am I not a noxious insect? In fact a Karamazov! Once we went, a whole lot of us, for a picnic, in seven sledges
20. Hasn't he perhaps stopped at our inn? My sister, Thekla, says there's heaps of sledges standing there as have come from the town
21. The line of sledges, the horses in tandem, glide quickly along the narrow road that lies through the forest, now between high trees, now between low firs weighed down by the snow, caked in heavy lumps on their branches
22. I passed through our empty little street and came to the main thoroughfare, where I met pedestrians and sledges laden with wood, the runners grating the road
23. The horses swung with regular paces beneath their shining yokes, their backs covered with straw mats and their heads wet with rain; while the drivers, in enormous boots, splashed through the mud beside the sledges
24. The hackney sledges bumped on the ice-glazed snow, and creaked over the stones
1. chance of God having a bit of a sledging outing in Hedes
2. be a fiery fast bowler without all of the glaring, snorting and sledging that goes with
3. When the nurse went into the nursery, Seryozha was telling his mother how he and Nadinka had had a fall in sledging downhill, and had turned over three times
4. Sledging, the snows, which at the time
5. Wallace makes use of an identical phrase in describing an occasion when he was frostbitten whilst sledging in Russia
6. Eh, lad, "It's ill sledging when the thaw has set in
7. AKÍM [goes on fidgeting with the leg-bands] Eh, lad, “It's ill sledging when the thaw has set in
