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Then a bugle rang out and instantly guns and machine-guns opened fire on the helpless fishing-craft, and a hail of missiles fell.
He said one resident who recently tried to capture taggers on video was met with a hail of abuse.
People just kept standing up to hail lost loved ones, while more attendees wept.
But the ludic presence of humor also inflects the choice of procedures and devices which hail us with their math or italic geometry.
They do a wonderful job day and night, hail, rain or snow, thinking of others and not themselves.
The remaining five were picked off as they rushed the vans in an attempt to find sanctuary from the hail of bullets.
He died there in a hail of bullets over Labor Day weekend, two months shy of his 26th birthday.
She died in a hail of bullets fired on Sunday by two assailants using assault rifles.
But the power of Carolo Augosto did not hail from the Pope, but instead from his lordship over the Franks, and, to a lesser extent, the Lombards.
In 1997, Liam and Patsy were rock royalty, crowned on the cover of Vanity Fair in a hail of Cool Britannia bluster.
Our student body consists of both working artists and art students who hail from all over the US and Canada.
Heavy downpours, hail, rockfalls and strong winds battered the province yesterday and more showers and snow are expected.
And he had the bishop's apron framed, and hung it in the parsonage hail, from a red-deer's antlers, with the name and date below.
The crowd was vocal in its disapproval, responding with hoots, catcalls and a hail of empty bottles, apple cores and other missiles.
This week the Times braved the wind, hail and rain to see what local opinion was like on the annual event.
Compared to the turbulence, the hail and the lightning, icing was the biggest threat of all.
It was practically dark as we prepared to put the sign onto the posts when a strong wind stormed through bringing an icy rain and hail with it.
The hail of bullets was tremendous, and the squad hesitated amidst the storm.
But all hail to the few precious craftsmen firms that keep the city and the whole of North Yorkshire firmly rooted in a glorious past.
Icy mornings, hail, sleet and snow have had everyone dusting off their winter woollies even though spring has officially sprung.
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A plaintive hail from the rough brick coping of the bund drew his atrabilious attention.
I was hoofing it over the flinty highway, trying to favour my blisters, when I heard a hail behind me.
From the base local showers of rain or snow, occasionally of hail or graupel, usually fall.
Our officials hail from the Foreign Office and belong to the legation of Teheran.
I ordered the interpreter to hail them, and ask the most direct passage to Macao.
There was no surcease, however, in the constant hail which fell upon the town.
The Colonel raised the handkerchief on the point of his sword and gave a hail.
Shall I crown you with our wild-wood coronal, and hail you queen of the forest?
The snow came in sheets like birdshot, a half-sleet that stung like hail as it cut 235 the face.
An angry roar went up to Heaven, followed by a hail of blows upon the stout, ironbound oak, and an imperious call to open.
She passed out of hail, but we made her out to be an hermaphrodite brig, with Brazilian colors in her main rigging.
Shells and cannon-balls fell like hail in the suburbs, and the carnage was as indiscriminating as it was terrible.
He was about to hail him, when the rower turned his boat inshore and stepped out.
And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.
Afterwards he whistled in a particular manner, and there fell a storm of hail which killed the bushbuck.
At a plaza he tried to hail a carromata, but the cochero whipped up his horse in a frenzy of distrust.
Tremolos and chromatics descend upon the orchestra like a storm of hail and rain that almost drown the singers' voices.
He knew the hail kintra side, and used to spier a great many questions about the ways o' the auld folks.
Sometimes I should like to hail some of these unfriended spirits, but I haven't the courage.
They, too, fled before the fusillade and the hail of shot that descended on them.
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