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1. breath on the barb of her fear, her heart pounding on and on
2. That was an obvious barb toward him, having taken a native wife that he had to share multiple times per native year
3. Keeping his eyes on that weather-beaten stand, he leaned against the south face of the Bee and Barb
4. The Bee and Barb became a favorite place for good ale and even better conversation
5. As he neared the center of town, the once bustling merchants’ circle now devoid of any souls, he felt the familiar urge to visit the Bee and Barb for another drink and a hearty meal
6. Letting some seconds pass, he too left the Bee and Barb to take a final glimpse of the man
7. direct path towards the little mite and then a whip cracking sound reverberated as the poisoned barb hit out at nothing
8. lose their tang and pains their barb when the self is known
9. Barb declined the vodka he kept in the cabin along with the gouda cheese sausages
10. Was that a veiled barb? By the way Harry hurried me along I’m inclined to believe
11. "How is this coming out of my stomach?" Then she felt a barb tear through the skin in her back
12. A barb caught on her intestine, and the hole in her stomach was big enough to let it slip out
13. Her name is Barbara, not Barb or Barbie but Barbara and she reads Mills and
14. He studied my talons and the tail where once had been a deadly barb but some soldier of Amber had hacked it off with a broadsword
15. I dropped, pulling the barb free and slicing it off with my rear talons
16. angle of the shaft the barb could not be more than an inch from
17. Dave dropped the now useless barb tangled skull, and grabbed the bone-club with both hands like a baseball bat
18. “Hi Ben, this is Barb
19. His hair brushed against the barb wire that crowned the top of it
20. his mother – a barb which tore into Victor’s heart
21. � She couldn�t resist throwing him a barb
22. Atkins laughed briefly at that barb shot at the French, whose sexual mores had always attracted disapproving remarks in Great Britain
23. "Don't we, Barb?" he asked his wife, who only
24. There was a roar of genuine laughs at that barb at the Washington bureaucracy
25. At that stinging barb at some old generals and admirals present that he considered to be intellectual lightweights, MacArthur went back to his seat, most satisfied with himself
26. “He also threw a nice barb at the Church by comparing their intolerance and intransigence to that of the Inquisition
27. “Yours and Rhone"s?” he prodded with a jagged barb of
28. Dominic seemed unfazed by the barb and gave a slight shrug of his shoulders
29. Julie tried to turn her head towards Mark but the barb wire that
30. Tony fell through the barb wire fence, slicing his calf in the process
31. Jhamed looked on with concern, clearly upset by Manfred’s barb
32. Jhamed ignored Simon’s barb and continued
33. A mere second longer and Duval’s heart would have caressed the sweet barb
34. The archer who delivered the barb was tall, for the arrow was long and weighty, indicating the man had an arm to match it in length and strength
35. There was a sharp crack of the whip and Koke screamed out in agony as the individual strands of the whip each capped with a jagged metal barb chewed into his back and shoulders
36. Barb never showed any real attraction to Chris and Chris showed Barb little
37. Thomas wanted Barb to be his
38. Barb became a favorite of the family
39. Barb was also there when Thomas decided they
40. Most of all, Thomas remembered when Barb slept over
41. Barb still came around from time to time
42. Barb had no idea Thomas was trying to impress her
43. He decided to call Barb
44. Colin flexed his jaw, ignoring the barb
45. Over the years, Joe and Joyce raised five children—Fred, Judy, Jerry, Barb, and Jenny
46. “There’s a call on line two,” Barb said
47. She would not discuss it now with Barb, but she would bring it up when the moment was right
48. The phone rang occasionally, and each time Samantha held her breath and hoped that Barb would send the caller to another office, to a lawyer who knew what to do
49. Her luck lasted until almost ten, when Barb stuck her head around the door and said, “I’ll be out for an hour
50. Barb was back, and she proved skillful in helping to ease the new client out the front door
51. “What was that all about?” Barb asked when Mrs
52. Mattie was in court in Curry County, Annette was running late, part-time Barb had yet to show, and part-time Claudelle didn’t arrive until noon on Mondays, so Samantha was all alone when Pamela Booker made a noisy entrance with two dirty kids behind her
53. When Barb finally arrived, Samantha gave her $20 and asked her to hurry and buy as many sausage biscuits as possible
54. Barb said, “We keep a few bucks around the office
55. Barb returned with a sack of sausage biscuits and spread the feast on the table
56. Samantha closed the door and huddled with Barb in the reception area
57. “What’s the deal?” Barb asked, and Samantha gave her the basics
58. Barb, who thought she’d seen it all, was puzzled, but never timid
59. When she returned to the conference room, Barb had found a box of crayons and some coloring books and was busy organizing fun and games for Trevor and Mandy
60. At one point Barb whispered to Samantha, “We’ve actually had clients sleep here for a couple of nights
61. In addition to the hosts and Samantha, the crowd included Annette with Kim and Adam; Barb and her husband, Wilt; Claudelle and her husband; Vic Canzarro and his girlfriend; and Jeff
62. Barb was in the door, both hands over her mouth
63. Barb was a blubbering mess
64. Barb hung a wreath on the door and locked it
65. She quickly hung up, and two seconds later Barb buzzed her
66. Twenty minutes later, he was in the reception area being examined by Barb, who thought he was quite cute and thought of herself as quite the flirt
67. Barb cranked up the radio and soon carols were ringing throughout the offices
68. On another subject, Barb reported that the office had received eleven phone calls that morning from the Crump clan, all demanding to see Ms
69. The phone rang less and Barb spent more time away from her desk, always “running errands
70. Just as Barb was telling a story about a man who’d fainted in church yesterday, Mattie’s cell phone vibrated on the table beside her salad
71. Annette had the bright idea of volunteering Barb to leave with their laptops
72. Barb gathered them and was more than happy to leave town
73. BARB EICHEL WAS going to have me over for lunch
74. The dog sniffed over to me, and I tensed up, hoping Barb would call it away
75. “Quack,” Barb said, and giggled
76. I didn’t stay much longer with Barb
77. Maureen’s friend from the shoe store, Barb, drawls “Nue York Ceety! Get a rope,” and when I squint at her in confusion, she says, “Oh, it’s from that old salsa commercial!” and when I still fail to connect, she blushes, puts a hand on my arm, and says, “I wouldn’t really hang you
78. Not a barb
79. But no, no, now I'm sure there is not a single one whose barb, whose lovely poisoned thorn, is not caught in my flesh, one place or another
80. But no, no, now I’m sure there is not a single one whose barb, whose lovely poisoned thorn, is not caught in my flesh, one place or another
81. ” Then he succumbed to the temptation of giving vent to his feelings with an ironic barb
82. Learn to recognize the cone shells, which shoot out a poisonous barb, in a few species potent enough to kill you
83. 8 Augers or Terebra Shells (Terebridae) temperate and tropical seas, particularly the Indo-Pacific, also have a stinging barb
84. Yes; these laws might be engraven on a Queen Anne's farthing, or the barb of a harpoon, and worn round the neck, so small are they
85. But a combing sea dashed me off, and at the same instant, the fish, taking one good dart forwards, went down like a flash; and the barb of that cursed second iron towing along near me caught me here" (clapping his hand just below his shoulder); "yes, caught me just here, I say, and bore me down to Hell's flames, I was thinking; when, when, all of a sudden, thank the good God, the barb ript its way along the flesh—clear along the whole length of my arm—came out nigh my wrist, and up I floated;—and that gentleman there will tell you the rest (by the way, captain—Dr
86. Ahoy, there! Tashtego, Queequeg, Daggoo! What say ye, pagans! Will ye give me as much blood as will cover this barb?" holding it high up
87. Ahab's harpoon, the one forged at Perth's fire, remained firmly lashed in its conspicuous crotch, so that it projected beyond his whale-boat's bow; but the sea that had stove its bottom had caused the loose leather sheath to drop off; and from the keen steel barb there now came a levelled flame of pale, forked fire
1. I would dream up the most vivid scenarios of me pulling off his toenails or tying him up in barbed wire or cutting off his penis and shoving it in a knife wound in his side
2. He was much closer to the ground this time and his wrists were bound behind him with barbed wire
3. One by one they were taken into a shack – hands tied behind their backs by barbed wire – and hacked to pieces with an axe so that no shots could be heard
4. practically covered in concrete tank traps and barbed wire
5. The shore was littered with the remains of barbed
6. and barbed tails whipping, they swarmed across on
7. A barbed tail uncoiled around his ankles
8. To dream that you are caught in barbed wire symbolizes oppression and confinement
9. The beach was covered in barbed wire which was thickly strewn about and machine guns hammered down from the strong points on the cliffs
10. The ones who did make it to shore fell prey to either the mines machine guns or got entangled in the barbed wire on top of this were the bloody snipers who picked people off with deadly accuracy
11. We spent the day making barbed wire entanglements we did this in the bottom of the trench making a wooden frame first these were about fourteen feet long and then we would loop barbed wire round them
12. The Captain sent him off to the aid station to get leg dressed where it had been creased by a Turkish bullet and ripped by the barbed wire
13. We had to carry the lot all the wood to be used props, timbers, duckboards, and then there were the sandbags and the Bain of my life the coils of barbed wire
14. “Shut up George you want to try carrying this barbed wire like me and Billy Boy then you would have something to flap your gums about
15. As I looked up at the parapet I could see rusty barbed wire strung out across the top and the usual smell of latrines, chloride of lime, sweat and decomposing bodies assaulted our sense of smell
16. “I’m glad it worked after all there was no point in taking more of a risk than you had to not for the sake of a bit of barbed wire
17. “The later waves will be carrying the same as you but in addiation Vickers and Lewis machine guns and ammo, barbed wire and stakes plus what ever else is needed to consolidate the enemy terrain we capture in the attack
18. ” “Look, he spent three days pulling his own skin off trying to escape from a barbed wire fence
19. He turned around to see two rows of barbed wire stretching into the sky, as far as the eye could see
20. Sandra gave one last frantic tug and managed to free herself, but before she could move the cat was on her, thumping into her chest, knocking her backwards against the barbed wire
21. Barbed wire fences barred the way, but Lieutenant Wise, of Military Kite fame, and other officers smashed the posts with logs
22. A fraise of barbed wire was negotiated with loss, and as the cavalry joined hands with the infantry right, it was an individual race from the extended lines to the top of the hill
23. Nine succeeding rows of trenches must first have been captured on the slope leading from San Juan, the terrible barricade of barbed wire, protected by the forts and blockhouses, surmounted, before the stormers could reach the city and its immediate defences
24. Most of the time the SAP Riot Units arrived very early (long before the court open at 9am), and formed a cordon around the court with barbed wire
25. In fact, the injured horse may have run into barbed wire while running, and panicked, mauling itself,” according to Frederickson
26. Reaching the barbed wire fence at the far side, they milled about, the ones nearest the fence getting caught on the barbs, tearing lumps of fleece from their coats
27. Instead of bidding his time, he just literally sprouted wings, grew horns and a set of sharp fangs, a barbed tail, as well as an array of the assorted nasty features usually associated with demons, beelzebubs, balrogs and the armies of hell as portrayed in popular religious fiction
28. That was guaranteed by its height of twenty feet, its bifurcated barbed tail, the red-hot flaming hoofs instead of feet, claws as large as jet engine fan blades, and a devilish smile that said that this one knew he had a natural capacity to instill gaping awe, mind-numbing fear, and send men early to their graves
29. At the top, he ignored the pain of barbed wire cutting into his palms, rolled over it and dropped to the other side, leaving behind shards of trousers and chamarra
30. The Pilgrim offered Molo his leather flask which was filled with water they had gathered from a meaty, barbed plant, its juices nothing more than water
31. In front of me is a chain-link fence with barbed wire strung along the top
32. It was created to hop trenches and roll over barbed wire on the Western Front in WWI
33. barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? 8 Lay your hand on him, remember the battle, do no more
34. Faith's innocently uttered phrase rankled in her father's mind like a barbed shaft
35. A large group of twenty-something men wearing orange sashes walked along a road with spiral barbed wire separating the sash wearers from an angry mob
36. Chin stood up and grabbed his long barbed stick and started to
37. A fraction of a second later another followed with another splash, and immediately stabbed the first in the back with a slim barbed lance
38. The compound, surrounded by barbed wire fencing,
39. After driving through an open area, they passed through the board-and- barbed wire gate guarded by two Chinese Nung mercenaries
40. The lead men in Buey Dan's sector had already penetrated the first coils of barbed wire and had placed their command-detonated Bangalore tor�pedoes
41. As this jumble of barbed thoughts continued to fold in on
42. Then I blundered into a fence and fell, entangled in barbed wire
43. "How could I not feel that?" Hayley thought, looking at the barbed wire coming out of her stomach
44. The barbed wire continued to unspool, widening the wounds
45. A pole had been pushed under the barbed wire
46. Barbed wire fencing ran along the road
47. barbed wire to the edge of the corn that was way more than the traditional knee high by
48. Sometimes they even had barbed wires on top of the walls
49. like that, except the barbed wires came when I was older
50. “If Ares brings his girlfriend here for a date,” I said, staring up at the barbed wire, “I’d hate to see what she looks like
51. As expected, a security guard was blocking the entrance to the barbed wire enclosure
52. Stopping verboten at all times! Our tent site in the Potsdam camping ground was right under the infamous wall – a deceptively slight affair of concrete that we could walk up to and touch, topped with barbed wire
53. Some looked red and sore as though he"d caught himself on a barbed wire fence
54. The rusty barbed wire fence was unnecessary, but had come with the block
55. Cador joined him, soothed the cuts that Zeno said came from climbing through barbed wire fences, failed to notice Zeno’s shorts weren’t in the laundry basket, applied disinfectant and took him to bed until dinner
56. There it met the large diamonded wire fence with a barbed wire cap that marked the boundary of the CN plot
57. He made his way to the end of the garden and looked at the boundary fence with its barbed wire running along the top
58. Before he started climbing he took off his jacket so he could put it over the barbed wire to protect himself when he got to the top
59. A few quick breaths and the net burned into spectacular fire bombs yet one of the harpies managed to stick me with her barbed tail right under my breast plate and into the softened scales where it pierced my flesh
60. The border between the two farms was marked by a large row of trees which had a barbed wire fence between each tree
61. She began to panic as she ripped her blouse on the barbed wire of the fence
62. He tried his best to avoid conflict with his detractors and his prowess in the boxing ring kept their barbed comments to the minimum
63. I want the main entrance to be guarded twenty four hours a day, the perimeter will be fortified with barbed wire, there will be secondary fencing within a meter of the first fence and the gap in between will be covered with landmines
64. “The boundary is heavily fenced and has barbed wire defenses right along its length
65. Dead or dying, it flailed its six legs and two claws frantically, while its barbed tail snaked wildly on the ground
66. Suzy soon returns with an armload of moss covered branches and drops them down besides the barbed wire fencing
67. The shiny barbed wire surrounding the Well shines in the gloom under the trees and Malcolm stops to look around
68. Five metres from the Well Malcolm can see a dead fox lying against one of the posts that supports the barbed wire
69. But as I slow the pace the barbed wire
70. I’m running down this barbed wire trail
71. There were extended rolls of barbed wire out here
72. Lamps revealed several cars in a large parking lot surrounded by barbed wire fence
73. Going out of the cabin with Maria, she let the Italian woman point to her the various installations of interest in the camp, which was contained within a defensive perimeter wall that was roughly 500 meters to a side and was made of a thick earthen berm topped by barbed wire
74. There were two barbed wire fences, one on my left, and the other
75. They walked through a barbed wire gate that had just been blown away and entered the long bamboo hut in the center of the compound
76. ����������� �There is a barbed wire fence along the shore, about one hundred yards from the water
77. � Nancy shouted more orders in the radio as they rushed towards the barbed wire gate of the concentration camp
78. topped off with barbed wire
79. s equipped with long command detonation wire spools, while the quartermaster company will prepare pallets of barbed wires and other defensive stores and tools
80. You also saw that other helicopters dropped a few barrels of gasoline on top of our hill, along with boxes of rations, ammunition, spools of barbed wire and other defensive stores?’’
81. was not barbed with their metal stink, where the ground did not tremble with their
82. The gigantic Atlantic Wall composed of blockhouses, minefields, and many kilometers of barbed wire, flame throwers, machine guns, and anti-tank ditches
83. Three strands of the best barbed wire money could buy and put up like a knot-head that had been raised in the city
84. The hallway leading to the secure police-only back parking lot that was surrounded by barbed wire fencing and accessible only through an electronic gate that required a passkey was fairly deserted as the clock approached nine o’clock
85. By the time the words “'Things that if anyone knew I'd be incarcerated' for $500” have left the mouth of Alex Trebek, he has sprouted enormous twisted horns and has cloven feet and a barbed tail
86. started cordoning off sections of the ocean with barbed wire and
87. He had a barbed wire
88. I was black with marks, as if I’d been rolling in barbed wire, covered in burns from cigarettes and the electric scalpel; I was the picture of misfortune
89. As I was diving headfirst over the barbed wire fence that lined the highway, I heard the doors slam shut and Joseph yell, “Good Luck, Wayne,” then the van sped off
90. looking gloomily at the barbed wire
91. Rows of barbed wire and other wooden-lattice type fences
92. His appearance is that of a drill commander in a bad Hollywood movie, the kind that yells at scrawny boys as they wriggle under the barbed wire and makes them cry
93. Hiss caught his coat on the barbed edges and needed Locke’s assistance in untangling himself
94. The last I saw of barbed wire head was in a red county jailsuit
95. barbed wire tat head or some other mook
96. Ice crept over them and crackled out in barbed icicles along the ground until they reached Aesa’s feet
1. barbs, all the meanness and all the venom that Nick
2. His foot slips in the mud by the side of the track leading into the parking area and he falls into a blackthorn bush, which whips at his hair and impales him on its thin black barbs
3. He wrapped his tail around Solo Ki's arm, entwining it from shoulder to wrist where it split into a pair of curved barbs that dug into the elf's cape
4. Agony exploded on his face as barbs sliced through his flesh, seconds before scales swept over its surface
5. There must have been shit or putrefied flesh on the barbs of the wire and when it gouged into him it infected his leg and he contracted first blood poisoning and then gangrene we were told that he tried to fight it even when his leg was amputated but it had gone too far
6. Sandra was nine years old and slim for her age, which helped as she lay on her back and wriggled her way under the fence, holding the sharp barbs away from her body with both hands
7. Sandra stood up, slipped on a patch of oil, lost her footing, her leg slipping under the bottom wire of the fence, her jeans snagging on the barbs
8. Needle sharp teeth tore at her throat and barbs bit into her back, the incredible pain taking away what little fight she had left
9. Sandra was nine years old, slim for her age, which helped as she lay on her back and wriggled her way under the fence, holding the sharp barbs away from her body with both hands
10. Reaching the barbed wire fence at the far side, they milled about, the ones nearest the fence getting caught on the barbs, tearing lumps of fleece from their coats
11. Using one of the fence post as an aid, he climbed over the wires, careful not to get his clothes snagged on the wicked looking barbs
12. The barbs widened the pinpoint hole in her flesh as they tore out of her
13. Red chunks stuck to the barbs as they came out
14. The barbs cut into spinal cord and bone as the wire threaded between two vertebrae
15. I felt the sharp barbs hanging up on my jacket
16. The manticore threw off his coat and transformed into his true self, his lion claws extended and his spiky tail bristling with poison barbs
17. The pain is unbearable, but necessary, like having poison barbs withdrawn from every facet of one’s being
18. The body is broken; the seas are choking on our poisonous barbs The tears of the shaman ring
19. Earlier, he had tried to provoke Garnet Reed into an argument over the mysterious Russian radio transmissions picked up and recorded by Tubby Paulson, but Reed had deflected Curran's barbs with a big, understanding grin
20. Others swear by barbs
21. Every time he tried to access a fond memory of Sunbeam those cruel barbs shot forth and, as his mind lay bleeding, the living mummy of Sunbeam loomed over him, and the whole of his mind's eye was eclipsed by that terrible, cadaverous face – his mask twitched and ticked but still did not give way
22. He pulled and tugged but the barbs refused to let go
23. Ralf leaned toward him, trembling with premonitory delight when one of the barbs pricked his own thumb while pressing the halo down firmly to ensure good conductance
24. quips and barbs about past issues between the two countries
25. Tom had a sickly feeling when he imagined getting stuck in those barbs!
26. Scathing retorts, insulting barbs, the subtle diss—she had a repertory
27. The thread has little barbs
28. device of torture with its twisted barbs and hooks
29. Sunlight glared off the ocean, sending barbs of white light into the men’s pupils and leaving their heads pounding
30. As he completed the first mile, barbs of pain were crackling through his ankle
31. Either she would have to put up with it or ask were the barbs of truth
32. party banished, for the most part, the memory of Rhett’s barbs and she was happy,
33. She realized now that though he had infuriated her with his malicious convalescence continued and he did not fling softly drawled barbs at her or sting her comments and roused her to heated rejoinders, he had done it because he cared what she did and said
34. Some had long stabbing thorns, some hooked barbs that rent like knives
35. Likewise, we were both haunted by our common Want of a Father; for Presto (as he call’d himself amongst the Ladies) was born Months after his Father’s unfortunate Demise, and always accounted himself an Orphan of sorts (which perhaps explain’d that heighten’d Sensitivity in his Character, a Species of Skinlessness, as ’twere, which made all the Barbs of the World prick him more than they prickt the ordinary Man)
36. Joe’s words got to me in a way that Mason Broyles’s vicious barbs had not
37. Her sirs were barbs, always had been, but the thing that really cut him was the fact that she didn’t think he would see this through until the end
38. When was the last time I had spoken his name? Those thorny old barbs of guilt bore into me once more, as if Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner speaking his name had broken a spell, set them free to torment me anew
39. God, God, how I loved their barbs, their thorns
40. - AVOID grasses and other plants with tiny barbs on their stems and leaves
41. I carefully measured the proportions (but will not here give the details) of the beak, width of mouth, length of nostril and of eyelid, size of feet and length of leg, in the wild parent species, in pouters, fantails, runts, barbs, dragons, carriers, and tumblers
42. But we heeded them not, going along wheeling the barrow by turns, and Queequeg now and then stopping to adjust the sheath on his harpoon barbs
43. It is a thing well known to both American and English whale-ships, and as well a thing placed upon authoritative record years ago by Scoresby, that some whales have been captured far north in the Pacific, in whose bodies have been found the barbs of harpoons darted in the Greenland seas
44. But though boats have been taken down and lost in this way, yet it is this "holding on," as it is called; this hooking up by the sharp barbs of his live flesh from the back; this it is that often torments the Leviathan into soon rising again to meet the sharp lance of his foes
45. Fashioned at last into an arrowy shape, and welded by Perth to the shank, the steel soon pointed the end of the iron; and as the blacksmith was about giving the barbs their final heat, prior to tempering them, he cried to Ahab to place the water-cask near
46. Three punctures were made in the heathen flesh, and the White Whale's barbs were then tempered
47. "Not forged!" and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming—"Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the White Whale most feels his accursed life!"
48. Caught and twisted—corkscrewed in the mazes of the line, loose harpoons and lances, with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing and dripping up to the chocks in the bows of Ahab's boat
49. Many vestiges of the aboriginals are frequently found in Deerfield, such as beads, stone pots, mortars, pipes, axes, and the barbs of arrows and pikes