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...at de scrisoarea dvs. spre stânga ºi spre dreapta. Citatul este nu numai trun- chiat de la cap, dar ºi aproxi- mat prin rotunjire. X avea legãturi ...

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...g they took lightly. They surrounded Simon and Theo, and pulled out their truncheons and handcuffs. They’d heard that the kid was a slippery custome... ...es. A great cry went up and off cers began to run towards them with their truncheons drawn. ‘OK,’ Theo muttered. ‘Carpet – up!’ Nothing happened and ... ...ephant had short tusks and long, silky ears that f apped at its side. Its trunk was held aloft and there was a merry gleam in its eyes. Behind the e... ...d herself and, as though fainting, did a forward roll down the elephant’s trunk, up into the air, and landed after a double somersault. She seemed t... ...rowing herself back- wards to be caught by the elephant in the fold of its trunk. It f ipped the acrobat up on to its back. Then the elephant began t... ...hape and, by the time they come out, they’re bound to hurt.’ A large grey trunk came around the edge of the trailer and lifted the Bloon high up int... ...ied to squeeze his way free. ‘Old Raj here makes do with his eyes and his trunk.’ Raj swayed into the trailer. It was clear from the gleam in his ey... ...es to examine Theo more closely. Raj had small white tusks but it was his trunk that took centre stage: like a gigantic snake, it wriggled forwards ... ...rembling hand to Raj’s head. The skin was smooth and warm. Raj lifted his trunk to blow softly on Theo’s head. ‘He likes you,’ Bozo announced. ‘He s...

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...he dead leaves rustling under their boots— till they reached the blackened trunk of a broken plane tree just visible through the darkness. There they ... ...hen spread- ing his cloak on the ground sat down on it leaning against the trunk of the plane tree. The soldiers were silent. Far above their heads th... ... and entered it. When he had gone about a hun- dred paces he saw among the trunks of the trees a bon- fire, the shadows of some men sitting round it, ... ...m. Hadji Murad lifted his head, glanced at the sky which, seen between the trunks of the trees, was already grow- ing light in the east and inquired a... ... Avdeev tried to drink it but immediately handed back the lid. “My soul truns against it,” he said. “Drink it your- self.” Panov drank up the sp... ...vered, bleeding, shaven head rose; then the body with hands holding to the trunk of a tree. He seemed so terrible, that those who were running towards...

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...e said with an high voice: O gentle knight, Sir Lavaine, help me that this truncheon were out of my side, for it sticketh so sore that it nigh slayeth... ...would fain do that might please you, but I dread me sore an I pull out the trun- cheon that ye shall be in peril of death. I charge you, said Sir Laun... ... horse, and right so did Sir Lavaine; and forthwithal Sir Lavaine drew the truncheon out of his side, and he gave a great shriek and a marvellous gris...

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... replacing the pot of lilies, 35 George Meredith when a blow from a short truncheon, skilfully flung, struck him on the neck and brought him to the g... ...nt his prisoner. ‘So, Sir Shy-i’the-dark! gallant Stick-i’the-back! Squire Trun- cheon, and Knight of the noble order of Quicksilver Legs! just take y... ...ckon on it the same, trust me. Now, back!’ The Goshawk lunged out with the truncheon, but the pris- oner displayed no hesitation in complying, and fel... ...re of notching him, I’ d do the speech part first; but as I’m not—throwing truncheons being no honourable profession anywhere—I’ll reserve that. The r... ... stands firm.’ The Goshawk cleared his wrist, fixed his eye, and swung the truncheon meditatively to and fro by one end. He then launched off the shou... ... of order. All their charity forsook them at once. ‘Possess thyself of the truncheon,’ said Guy: ‘You see it can damage. More work before breakfast, a... ... T ra-ra, tra-ra, Ta-ta, tra-ra, tra-ra! the owner of the truncheon awoke to these reviving tones, and uttered a faint responsive ‘T ... ...mple’s ev- erything; and I must let you know in confidence, that no rascal truncheon had I flung in my life before; so, you see, I gave you all the ch...

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...rough the slush—and very remarkable luggage it was. There were a couple of trunks indeed, such as a rational man might need, but in addition there wer... ... straw, the fire which had gone out, the box of books outside, nor for the trunks and other luggage that had gone upstairs. When Mrs. Hall took his di... ...ff; he was struck in the mouth out of the air, and incontinently threw his truncheon and smote T eddy Henfrey savagely upon the crown of his head. “Lo... ...ound to the two other men. Everything was suddenly quiet. “I wish I had my trun- cheon,” said the policeman, going irresolutely to the door. “Once we ...

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...d, weeping for ages over thy self-slaughtered Catos, thy headless Ciceros (truncosque Cicerones), and unburied Pompeys;—to whom the party madness of t... ...was appointed to this important office, “nisi barbâ plenâ” The centurion’s trun- cheon,* again, was given to no man, “nisi robusto et bonæ famæ.” The...

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...and bricks of india-rubber; there were slabs and slates; there were cones, truncated cones, and cylinders; there were oblate and prolate spheroids, ba... ... six show him developing into a round-eyed, flaxen-haired youngster with a truncated nose and a friendly stare. There lurks about his lips that never ... ...hird baker’s shop, he was stopped by half a dozen policemen hammering with trun- cheons at his shins. “Look here, my fine giant, you come along o’ me,...

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...et my touch was cold and soft and gluey. The thicket was alive with crabs and lobsters, trun- dling to and fro lopsidedly, and I had to harden my hear... ...er had quite departed. Like a suit half-stuffed with bran, the limbs lay scattered, the trunk doubled, on the floor; and yet the thing repelled him. A... ...arrying its leafy mountain, pleased the mind like so many statues; and the lines of the trunk led the eye admiringly upward to where the extreme leave...

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...red man’s suspension, and I think of a thousand feral acts interrupted and trun- cated—as it were frozen, like the frozen words Pantagruel met at sea....

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...ing alone and largely used as a reception hall. (8) “T runcheons” (M.H.G. “trunzune”, O.F . “troncon”, ‘lance splinters’, ‘fragments of spears’. (9) “... ...ights mislike the queen. When that Rudeger’s liegemen met the guests, many truncheons (6) were seen to fly on high from the warriors’ hands in knightl... ...own on the Danube, about thirteen miles west of Linz. (5) “Traun” (M.H.G. “Trune”) is a river of Upper Austria, forty-four miles southeast of Linz. (6... ...ding to their custom. In what right knightly wise the men of Dietrich made truncheons from the shafts fly through the air, high above the shields, fro... ... and well a thousand brave men from Denmark. From the tilting one saw many trun- cheons (2) flying hence. Irnfried and Hawart now rode into the tourne...

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... either on other with a great shock, and Messire Gawain smiteth him with the truncheon of his spear that he had still left, in the midst of his breast... ... brast his spear upon him. Messire Gawain draweth his sword and flingeth the trun cheon to the ground. The Lord of the Moors doth likewise and comman...

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... license of King Arthur they went to him and spake with him; for while the truncheon of the spear stuck in his body he spake: Ah, fair damosels, said ... ...press Sir Launcelot, and he threw down Sir Mador de la Porte. And with the truncheon of that spear he threw down many knights. And King Bagdemagus smo... ...oftly on his horse to- 223 Le Morte Darthur – V ol. Two fore him, for the truncheon of his spear was in his body; and Sir Galahad stert up behind him... ...d: Sir, let death come when it pleaseth him. And therewith he drew out the truncheon of the spear out of his body: and then he swooned. Then came ther... ...n- armed, and received his Creator. Then he prayed Gawaine to draw out the truncheon of the spear out of his body. Then Gawaine asked him what he was,... ...weep, and Ector also. And then Uwaine himself and Sir Gawaine drew out the truncheon of the spear, and anon departed the soul from the body. Then Sir ... ...e said with an high voice: O gentle knight, Sir Lavaine, help me that this truncheon were out of my side, for it sticketh so sore that it nigh slayeth... ...would fain do that might please you, but I dread me sore an I pull out the trun- cheon that ye shall be in peril of death. I charge you, said Sir Laun... ... horse, and right so did Sir Lavaine; and forthwithal Sir Lavaine drew the truncheon out of his side, and he gave a great shriek and a marvellous gris...

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...y the poet has a strict unity, it must either be concisely told and appear trun- cated; or, if it conform to the Epic canon of length, it must seem we...

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...; my Central Ichaboes at 3/8 discount; my Table Mounting & Hottentot Grand Trunk, no where; my Bathershins and Derrynane Beg, of which I’d bought 2000... ... banner always borne before Scindiah,—he, with his good sword, cut off the trunk of the famous white elephant, which, shrieking with agony, plunged ma... ...was so delighted with the account of my victory over the el- ephant (whose trunk I use to this day), that he said, ‘Let him be called Gujputi,’ or the... ...f Holkar, argent an or gules, be- tween a sinople of the first, a chevron, truncated, wavy. I took nine of these myself in the course of a very short ... ...rt. Now the reader will see what I did. The elephants were standing, their trunks waggling to and fro gracefully before them; and I, with superhuman s... ...e ball fired from G, which took off one hundred and thirty-four elephants’ trunks, and only spent itself in the tusk of a very old animal, that stood ... ...t here, probably, it would have stopped, and done no further mischief. The trunk was the place at which to aim; there are no bones there; and away, co... ...that escaped to die of their hideous wounds elsewhere, most had left their trunks behind them. A great quantity of them we seized; and I myself, cutti... ...th a knight on board. Ludwig knew at once, by the sinople reversed and the trun- cated gules on his surcoat, that it was Sir Gottfried of Godesberg. ...

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...he country rises in successive steps of table-land, interspersed with some truncate conical hills, and the horizon is bounded by an irregular chain of... ...ade- wind, in a singular manner—some of them even at right angles to their trunks. The direction of the branches was exactly N. E. by N., and S. W. by... ...h rain; but here, in a couple of minutes, a little torrent flowed down the trunk. It is to this violence of the rain that we must attribute the verdur... ...and remarkable, compared with those of Europe, from the whiteness of their trunks. I see by my note-book, “wonderful and beautiful, flowering parasite... ...ns. Senhor Manuel was then making a ca- noe 70 feet in length from a solid trunk, which had originally been 110 feet long, and of great thickness. The... ...range-groves. Although a high flier, yet it very frequently alights on the trunks of trees. On these occasions its head is invariably placed downwards... ... transport of seeds from Tierra del Fuego, as is shown by the ca- noes and trunks of trees drifted from that country, and frequently thrown on the sho... ...ot reach with its proboscis the branches, deeply scores with its tusks the trunk of the tree, up and down and all round, till it is sufficiently weake... ...ying in length from eight inches to two feet. The stem at one extremity is trun- cate, but at the other is terminated by a vermiform fleshy appendage....