After the disastrous Battle of Long Island on 27 August 1776, British forces seized unresisting New York and held it throughout the war. |
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He also took the folder from the other unresisting hand, keeping it under his arm. |
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In 1964, two killers enter a school for the blind and gun down an unresisting mechanics instructor, Johnny North. |
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He took the other sledge from Damien's unresisting fingers and we raced to the bottom. |
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Apache helicopters pounded them with missiles, while US tanks poured cannon fire on the defeated and unresisting column. |
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Starting to walk away from the house, I am grateful she threw me out, grabbing me by the waist and pushing my unresisting body out the door. |
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The representation of Silver as quiet and unresisting, however, suggests McCrumb's ambivalent attitude towards political resistance against an oppressive state. |
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The rabbit was squatting by the cabbages unresisting when I was summoned to fetch him, and soon after I carried him back in the hutch he shut his eyes and died. |
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The lithographer must act imaginatively as he works on the stone, and make the transformation himself, on an unresisting surface. |
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Each of these aspects brings out contrary kinds of matter, with contrary tactile sensations: unresisting, hard, squeezy. |
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Joyous fans galloped in the ungainly manner of fanatics across the field and seized an unresisting Iraqi player, kissing him on the cheek. |
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She nodded and let him have another swallow of whiskey before she took it from his unresisting fingers and shoved the stopper back into the bottle. |
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Somebody sneaks in and chloroforms you, or sprays knock-out gas under your door, and while you are comatose and unresisting, your worldly goods are stripped. |
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These touches were sometimes humorous and sometimes disturbing, as when a white male dancer laid unresisting black male dancers on the floor, arranging their arms behind them as if cuffed. |
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Why not swagger, after the way he'd humiliated my unresisting father? |
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He slipped it softly onto her unresisting finger and, like the unwise moncalf he was, kissed it. |
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