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1. ‘Liz, we may have to run the gauntlet of the press or TV outside the police station
2. Usually there is a long tense scene of trying to get the lock open as the first obstacle in the gauntlet
3. I’m stunned at his attitude but relieved that I don’t have to run the gauntlet of trying to justify the unjustifiable
4. He had to run the gauntlet of a fair bit of opposition from the family generally but nothing put him off
5. The demon beneath Galimoto reached up to swat him with a gauntlet
6. In a spark of silver, the gauntlet was hurtling through the air, and shortly after so was the wolf helm, with Galimoto included -- the little fiend still intent on driving his teeth through the layer of steel even while gravity drove him and the helm to the earth
7. At the same time, her resolve was strengthened as she gripped the blade, compelling her to ignore her painfully hollow stomach and prepare to make the final push through what by now felt like an interminable gauntlet
8. But before I took up the gauntlet on behalf of my great grandfather and men and boys like him who were shot for very little reason I knew that there was a personal pilgrimage that I had to make and so I set off
9. Childhood was rough in the middle ages – only 40% of children survived the gauntlet of illnesses to adulthood
10. He ran the gauntlet and won with seconds to spare
11. “The archery range at school is twenty-five meters, can we start at that distance?” Talia asked as she filled a small quiver and selected an archery gauntlet
12. “The archery range at school is twenty-five yards, can we start at that distance?” Talia asked as she filled a small quiver and selected an archery gauntlet
13. As she reaches to put the gauntlet on the table, she has another
14. step further! Throw down the gauntlet by insisting that even the
15. Not only did some of the soldiers have deployed shield-projectors but some also had it on a gauntlet looking piece if wear that projected it in a small circle
16. already devoted His life to it and had run the gauntlet
17. have run the gauntlet of hate from every movie critic who still
18. Fortunately, everyone was orderly and we ran the gauntlet of supporters and media persons without incident
19. the gauntlet if they hoped to escape
20. ” He gazed ahead at the terrifying, nefarious gauntlet
21. resisted the invitation and backed away from the ten-man gauntlet waiting on the stairs
22. Cass walks the ceremonial gauntlet between the congratulating shoulder patting, thankful back pounding, and attempted handshakes being shoved in front of him
23. Must have been a gauntlet, he thought
24. The Superintendent in charge of the Waterfront Station set up his command post in a small room near one of the entrances and at nine fifteen, too late to prevent the queuing and loud chatter from hindering the work of those who had already run the uniformed gauntlet, he went to the second floor to further brief the Secretary General and Clerk of Councils
25. Clearly the gauntlet had been thrown down
26. Then there is the hardship of the return migration to the Southern Plains while running a gauntlet of predators
27. I drew in my breath and began walking the gauntlet
28. Approaching, he removed his gauntlet and offered me his hand
29. Maria made arrangements for them to leave by hydrocopter from the roof, so they didn’t have to run the gauntlet with the changelings in tow
30. With his mailed gauntlet he brushed away a furtive tear and was overheard, by those privileged burghers who happened to be in his immediate entourage, to murmur to himself in a faltering undertone:
31. WHILE WE WERE ON THE ROAD, my dad and Pete Domenici worked behind the scenes and prepared their bill for the big day when it would have its public committee “markup”—in which committee members could ask questions, offer amendments, and, once they were through that gauntlet, take a committee vote
32. Had she not been so surprised at Ashley’s windfall, Scarlett would have taken up this gauntlet, although while at Tara she had decided that never again would she permit herself to be involved in any quarrel with Rhett about Ashley
33. One of her leather gloves, which she had taken off to eat her skimmer-cake, lay in her lap, and without the slightest warning she passionately swung the glove by the gauntlet directly in his face
34. He cast it down in the middle of the table like a fuzzy gauntlet, stared smugly at Mercer, and then turned and walked out
35. The next block, if memory serves, should be a gauntlet of electric come-ons, peepshows and X-rated theaters, but the blackout has obliterated it, and without the promise of live flesh, foot traffic is thin
36. ” Smiling, he pulled on his other gauntlet, turned away, and crossed the paddock to his horse
37. ” He pulled one gauntlet off
38. Just as I’d planned, when my Interceptor passed directly through the center of the enemy’s symmetrical gauntlet, their ships were caught in their own crossfire for two or three glorious seconds, resulting in the destruction of at least a dozen more of their fighters
39. The tabloids and cops love that shot of the black suspect in shackles paraded through a gauntlet of blue and shoved into a squad car
40. That long tunnel in Mexico waited where I had once run a gauntlet of horrors, the no men, women and children, tobacco-dried mummies yanked from their graves to stand in line and wait for tourists and the day of judgment
41. He caught the back of Bartomeu’s blond head with a white-enameled gauntlet and drew him close to kiss him in reward and reassurance
42. We never know what is around the corner; you could run the gauntlet and have 10 years or more of great results
43. I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank; and, as a necessary part of the machinery, they kept a bell, a big gun, and a fire-engine, at convenient places; and the houses were so arranged as to make the most of mankind, in lanes and fronting one another, so that every traveller had to run the gauntlet, and every man, woman, and child might get a lick at him
44. For the most part I escaped wonderfully from these dangers, either by proceeding at once boldly and without deliberation to the goal, as is recommended to those who run the gauntlet, or by keeping my thoughts on high things, like Orpheus, who, "loudly singing the praises of the gods to his lyre, drowned the voices of the Sirens, and kept out of danger
45. She had hardly been able to believe her eyes when she saw me dare to accept her challenge, and pick up the gauntlet she had flung at me by glancing at Mme
46. "What a peculiar state of things!" Nekhludoff said to himself as he ran the gauntlet, as it were, of a hundred eyes that followed him through the corridor
47. I would not have submitted to the task of canvassing it, if gentlemen had not thrown the gauntlet with the air of sturdy defiance
48. And in comparing this bill with those declarations, will it be possible to conceive that we are consistent? When you had differences with both the belligerents, what was your language? You talked as though you would throw the gauntlet to the globe, as though you would stretch out your arm and smite the world
49. Her rings had been stolen, her rings and a jeweled gauntlet and a rose
50. “How came you by the jewels and rose? Can you tell us? And what of the missing gauntlet?”