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    1. when he slew the Egyptian


    2. How many campfires could they slew it to while Narrulla was overhead? She wasn't thinking of that, she said, "I think I can understand something of what you feel coming here


    3. "It will take some time," Heymon said, "it's still a two second round trip to the point, the nearest halo object will take over a second of slew time in the tangler


    4. The nearest impactor is several more seconds of slew time


    5. "The longer we wait, the more slew time we'll have to the impactor," Heymon pointed out


    6. "Reggie'll need good slew coordinates," he answered, "who's programming those?"


    7. Emboldened by this, the young warrior attacked and slew the second bug quickly with wide stabbing motions


    8. She slew bug after bug, leaping and gracefully turning in mid-air only to come down in the midst of them swinging her sword with devastating results


    9. Naria immediately recognized how young this particular Scather was, and stopped before she slew him


    10. 6And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them

    11. 39And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him


    12. warrior David, who slew the giant with five stones from a creek


    13. Such carnage had not been seen since Samson slew a thousand men with the jawbone of a donkey


    14. happened to have access to the axe on Peiton’s property? And who was never missed by his own master while he went to Peiton’s field, slew the man, and then returned unbloodied and


    15. If I slew Laedron, I’d have to slay the injured guardsmen, too


    16. Then as a grown man who should shun rash choler, he slew his wife Megara and their children


    17. Then they returned in force, the war grew yet more savage, until finally Achilles slew the Trojan champion Hector and


    18. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David


    19. Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith


    20. Genesis tells us that after Cain slew Abel, he exited Eden to the Land of Nod and took himself a wife

    21. * For my overseas readers: Since 1994 a whole slew of laws were created to "redress the imbalances of the past," and ensure that employment equity takes place


    22. It will know whose hand slew its master


    23. It was Grey's last panicky scramble that proved his undoing as, accompanied by a loud crack, one of the supporting branches snapped, allowing the whole fabrication to slew sideways and slip down into the rapids


    24. we that shadows slew and said so


    25. Exo 2:12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand


    26. 2Sam 4:7 For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night


    27. 2Sam 4:12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron


    28. 2Kin 23:20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem


    29. 1Sam 31:2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons


    30. 2Sam 1:10 So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord

    31. "Saul slew his thousands and David his ten thousands


    32. It seemed the parents of the man who slew the enemy would eat certain parts of the victim


    33. of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword


    34. inception of a whole slew of daydreams in my already overactive imagination


    35. “But it wasn't just one thing; it was a slew of things


    36. 8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him


    37. 25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew


    38. 25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came on the city boldly, and slew all the males


    39. 26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out


    40. 7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him

    41. 12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand


    42. 15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem


    43. associated with its manufacture and combustion and the cost of the slew of incentives offered to refiners and corn farmers


    44. 15 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation on it


    45. 23 And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot


    46. 8 Aaron therefore went to the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself


    47. 12 And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons presented to him the blood, which he sprinkled round about on the altar


    48. 7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males


    49. in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him


    50. The modern counterpart of the Jew Mattathias slew at the altar of the Idol would be the Jew at the altar of Liberalism









































    1. No; as soon as the probe slewed into alignment with the next facet, he popped back into existence, more substantial than ever


    2. Gritting his teeth, Contin pulled the wheel in the opposite direction, managing to get the car back onto the road, where it slewed from side to side, the tyres smoking as he stamped on the brakes


    3. But just as that thought entered his mind, his wife slewed the car around the next bend, and there in front of them was a long straight stretch of road


    4. The jeep slewed its way down the red mud jungle track


    5. The Opel slid to a stop when it encountered the first wagon slewed across the road, one of its wheels off, and the driver waving his arms excitedly at the car


    6. Yigal repeated the maneuver but let his line pay out as the stern slewed around


    7. Steering them sharply off the roadway, the chariot slewed


    8. The shuttle slewed wildly to the left, but partially corrected itself as the damaged after edges of the wings caused increased drag


    9. The shuttle slewed around some as it came in but maintained its heading


    10. The car slewed across the road as gales of laughter came floating from the vehicle

    11. They came to a fork in the dirt road and slewed across the sand-ripples to a halt


    12. It slewed to a stop across Star’s path


    13. The car had stopped, slewed across the road


    14. The way that truck had slewed all over the street, the numbers of vehicles involved in the collisions—there could be gas everywhere


    15. I slewed round a little, so as to see Lucy well without seeming to stare at her, and saw that she was in a half dreamy state, with an odd look on her face that I could not quite make out, so I said nothing, but followed her eyes


    16. His necessities supplied, Derick departed; but he had not gained his ship's side, when whales were almost simultaneously raised from the mast-heads of both vessels; and so eager for the chase was Derick, that without pausing to put his oil-can and lamp-feeder aboard, he slewed round his boat and made after the leviathan lamp-feeders


    1. The bike roared across the field, slewing onto the wide central path, spewing stones in all directions


    2. The rider re-holstered his gun, slewing the bike onto the driveway, kicking up stones as he headed towards the main gates


    3. That’s when Hartle wrenched the controls in a great slewing arc, watching as a field of stars swept past his view


    4. The grenade’s damage to the patrol boat had apparently befuddled its crew, and it dropped back, slewing away from the Syrena


    5. from slewing into the current


    6. as a silver BMW spat across her lane at high speed, slewing through to the slow lane to


    7. But Steelkilt and his desperadoes were too much for them all; they succeeded in gaining the forecastle deck, where, hastily slewing about three or four large casks in a line with the windlass, these sea-Parisians entrenched themselves behind the barricade


    1. While I was battering away at the pyramid, a sort of badger-haired old merman, with a hump on his back, takes me by the shoulders, and slews me round


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    Synonyms for "slew"

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    "slew" definitions

    (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent


    turn sharply; change direction abruptly


    move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner