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a great craze for "little many-shooting guns," as they call repeaters; but the cartridges were so defective that I was ashamed to palm them off as an effective weapon, and had given all but three away to various traders as curiosities to hang upon the walls of their houses.

The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton 1902 Louis Becke 1884

Further, since the repeaters are also responsible for a hugely disproportionate share of the intimate partner violence, child beating and child sexual abuse, the notion that these predators are somehow confused good guys does not square with the data.

“Meet the predators” « Planning the Day 2009

It has placed a limited number of transmitters around the city, free of charge, and relies on residential volunteers to put devices called repeaters on their rooftops that help spread the wireless signal.

A Second Look at Citywide Wi-Fi 2008

This process will be necessary if we want to build quantum repeaters, that is, devices which will allow the extension of quantum communication far beyond the distances of the order of 100 km which are achieved nowadays.

The Speculist: Towards a Quantum Repeater 2004

This process will be necessary if we want to build quantum repeaters, that is, devices which will allow the extension of quantum communication far beyond the distances of the order of 100 km which are achieved nowadays.

The Speculist: December 2004 Archives 2004

Our gunpowder fouls the barrel much worse than that which is proper for the repeaters, which is an especially significant difficulty because some of the gas provides the force used to draw each successive round into the chamber.

The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960

But the main problem, the FDNY says, was the damage done to infrastructure called repeaters, which made radio signals work at the twin towers.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

I and my repeaters were my own plagues, and the profit of all the fashionable watchmakers, whose shops I regularly visited for a _lounge_.

Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808

The immense and consistent power of the repeaters is another good reason why the team of engineers manning the cable station 24 hours a day work very carefully.

Home | Mail Online 2009

While the use of "repeaters," "drifters," and "illegals," together with vote buying and selling are nothing new to American elections, requiring a voter to appear in person at their precinct and physically sign a printed poll book in which they were listed, and that was available for future inspection, at least made the logistics of election fraud complicated and heightened the possibility of exposure and prosecution.

Detecting election fraud made virtually impossible 2008