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It has been said that the guns were very effective in repeling the opposition, eliminating German carrier pigeons, and maybe even stopping hand gernades.
Shotguns in Combat 2009
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It has been said that the guns were very effective in repeling the opposition, eliminating German carrier pigeons, and maybe even stopping hand gernades.
Shotguns in Combat 2009
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Its time America embrace other opinions catiously and stop repeling other nations indiscriminately and recklessly if i can use MaCain word.
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The crew might grumble when they were woken to an unexpected gun practice, or to rehearse repeling boarders, but they boasted of what their hardened skills would do to the devilish Cochrane if he dared attack the Espiritu Santo.
Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992
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THE Muscogulges, with their confederates, the Chactaws, Chicasaws, and perhaps the Cherokees, eminently deserve the encomium of all nations, for their wisdom and virtue in resisting and even repeling the greatest, and even the common enemy of mankind, at least of most of the European nations, I mean spirituous liquors.
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When Schlesinger attended a performance in 1853, it ended with the mock repeling of an invasion by Napoleon in which just as the invader has gained the edge of the stage, he is attacked by the sailor, who, applying his foot to a part of the Frenchman’s body which shall be nameless, kicks that warrior back into the pit.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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When Schlesinger attended a performance in 1853, it ended with the mock repeling of an invasion by Napoleon in which just as the invader has gained the edge of the stage, he is attacked by the sailor, who, applying his foot to a part of the Frenchman’s body which shall be nameless, kicks that warrior back into the pit.
Penny Gaffs 2007
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