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  • Ned Gowan was bright-eyed and fizzing with vitality, apparently so intoxicated with the thrill of the fight as hardly to notice the tooth that had been knocked out by an ill-aimed dagger hilt.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Canadians were used to battling a tough but ragtag band of undisciplined fighters who routinely emptied their AK-47 magazines in one burst of ill-aimed fire.

    2009 February 09 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • Canadians were used to battling a tough but ragtag band of undisciplined fighters who routinely emptied their AK-47 magazines in one burst of ill-aimed fire.

    Taliban Behead Geologist, Al-Qaeda style « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • Canadians were used to battling a tough but ragtag band of undisciplined fighters who routinely emptied their AK-47 magazines in one burst of ill-aimed fire.

    Taliban Behead Geologist, Al-Qaeda style « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • Beyond the fields of the farm stretched the gorse-strewn heath of the New Forest, which in turn gave way to the richly wooded acres that had been hunted by the kings of England since before William Rufus the Red, the son of William the Conqueror, lost his life to an ill-aimed arrow.

    A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

  • Beyond the fields of the farm stretched the gorse-strewn heath of the New Forest, which in turn gave way to the richly wooded acres that had been hunted by the kings of England since before William Rufus the Red, the son of William the Conqueror, lost his life to an ill-aimed arrow.

    A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

  • The aroma of cooking meat carried everywhere as the fallen mountain mage was devoured by the ill-aimed magic.

    Odyssey Moore, Vance 2001

  • The aroma of cooking meat carried everywhere as the fallen mountain mage was devoured by the ill-aimed magic.

    Odyssey Moore, Vance 2001

  • And the captain that welcomed him aboard with a curse and an ill-aimed blow had been as indistinguishable from his greasy, scurvy crew as any mongrel in a street pack.

    Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998

  • As he had never seen such creatures before, and the visitors had made no hostile moves, the guard thought this might have been an ill-timed and ill-aimed rest stop, and tried to hail them.

    Escape From Roksamur Lackey, Mercedes 1997

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