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  • Eventually, by simple laws of probability, a series of cyberattack waves had coalesced, the same way giant rogue waves were created in the real oceans that seemingly came from nowhere to wreak destruction.†   (source)
  • "Anyone who acts in defiance of this notice is a rogue and a traitor to the German people," ' Paul quoted from the article.†   (source)
  • Photographs taken with infrared reflectography and X ray suggested that this rogue painter, while filling in Da Vinci's sketched study, had made suspicious departures from the underdrawing… as if to subvert Da Vinci's true intention.†   (source)
  • Snow and mud lay thick on the earth, and rogue snowflakes drifted through the night sky.†   (source)
  • And if he was talking about the drones, then this wasn't some rogue unit scouring the countryside to waste possible carriers of the 3rd Wave so the unexposed wouldn't be infected.†   (source)
  • It was a rogue hemorrhagic, said the commentators.†   (source)
  • The rogue soldiers paused in the midst of their celebrations.†   (source)
  • Teddy Sanders swept a rogue thread off his otherwise immaculate blazer.†   (source)
  • They got some good music down there. troy: They got some rogues … is what they got. lyons: How you been, Mr. Bono?†   (source)
  • A rogue worksheet slapped him in the face, but he swatted it away.†   (source)
  • Among my five teammates who reached the top, four, including Hall, perished in a rogue storm that blew in without warning while we were still high on the peak.†   (source)
  • You're jumping ship with Alex, making a run for it, going all rogue and Invalid on me."†   (source)
  • We got us a rogue troll.†   (source)
  • He was only four risers from the top, measuring the distance with the rogue mallet in his left hand as he pulled himself up with his right.†   (source)
  • Some I understand: Eugor, I-W, W-I Rogue.†   (source)
  • If this vessel wasn't on the plan it was either a rogue or had drifted off course for some reason.†   (source)
  • The try-anything was the spells and chants of rogue monks.†   (source)
  • We thus created a rogues' gallery, and we made our mission choices depending on the amount of intel we had.†   (source)
  • That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet What a rogue and peasant slave am I Good night, sweet prince, / And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!†   (source)
  • What if this was some kind of test, to see if she'd report a rogue call?†   (source)
  • Alain, their middle child, has a sly roguish charm.†   (source)
  • Like a rogue piece in a puzzle.†   (source)
  • "Only rogue vampires drink human blood from living people," interjected Alec.†   (source)
  • So I approached the worst rogue of the lot, and it did no good.†   (source)
  • "I suppose they don't want those of us who saw the rogue crops to continue working in positions of authority" my mother says.†   (source)
  • The rogue guard had gotten what he wanted.†   (source)
  • Sayyadina to rogue peoples who've been so heavily imprinted with our Bene Gesserit soothsay they even call their chief priestesses Reverend Mothers.†   (source)
  • As Colton hopped up on the footstool to see what the rogue tarantula looked like, he glanced back at me with a grin that warmed me.†   (source)
  • She could tell him he's a rogue.†   (source)
  • Instead the most successful rogue is applauded.†   (source)
  • His rogue smile crept out.†   (source)
  • Gnawing on the words, Garzhvog added, "The Dragon King is a false-tongued traitor, a rogue ram, but his mind is not feeble.†   (source)
  • Still, pink lips and a perky nose confirmed its presence, as did a quality of roguish animation, of uppity Irish egotism, which often activated the Cherokee mask and took control completely when he played the guitar and sang.†   (source)
  • I mean that you are a rogue!†   (source)
  • Is she a rogue?†   (source)
  • This monkey house, which was run by a rich monkey trader ("a sort of lovable rogue," according to Mr. Jones) was exporting about thirteen thousand monkeys a year to Europe.†   (source)
  • While some sought to write off Jordan as simply a rogue cop with an anger-management problem, months later, in the relative calm of a lawyer's office during a deposition related to the incident, he was able to articulate the frustration he and many others felt toward people like Chime who were changing the social landscape around Atlanta and who, in his view, weren't doing enough to adapt to local customs.†   (source)
  • Has he not a rogue's face?†   (source)
  • There's many a rogue.†   (source)
  • Exhaling, he gave Garrett a roguish grin.†   (source)
  • It's a good thing I aint a rogue, he said.†   (source)
  • Despite all the attention paid to rogue companies like Enron, academics know very little about the practicalities of white-collar crime.†   (source)
  • In the haziness of the alcohol Meme thought with pleasure about the scandal that would have taken place if she were to express her thoughts at that moment, and the intimate satisfaction of her roguishness was so intense that Fernanda noticed it.†   (source)
  • The rogue commander was getting more and more belligerent, the United States more and more concerned.†   (source)
  • The U.S. Naval Academy The loss of his left leg above the knee had not taken away Oliver Wendell Tyler's roguish good looks or his zest for life.†   (source)
  • But the thing he'd toked last night was either a rogue strain of hashish or standard stuff laced with some psychotomimetic agent.†   (source)
  • More shots rang out from the rogue Transvice; more people disappeared.†   (source)
  • Marcinko created SEAL Team Six, served time in jail for defrauding the government, wrote his autobiography, entitled Rogue Warrior, and made a video game.†   (source)
  • During the week Mortenson had spent sleeping on the charpoy in Changazi's office, under the aged wall map of the world that he was nostalgically pleased to see still identified Tanzania as Tanganyika, he'd been entertained by Changazi's tales of roguery.†   (source)
  • One report cited in Buchanan's book warned that sickly immigrants "would endanger children in school and at the movies, anyone standing in range of a rogue cough or sneeze, or patrons of fast-food restaurants whose food might be prepared by an 'invader.'†   (source)
  • I am, of course, a rogue.†   (source)
  • If I allowed a rogue to cheat me, I would deserve my fate.†   (source)
  • Even including Herr Kamyer, the rogue male.†   (source)
  • All of it would hardly satisfy a rogue, and he could not spare any of it.†   (source)
  • How to Vanquish a Rogue Cataclyst?†   (source)
  • Sitting by the fire in a fine old home, one with a history, and sipping hot cocoa made by someone else, and talking to such a noted rogue as Lucien Wilbanks, Portia at times couldn't believe herself.†   (source)
  • His orders were to bring Thomas in alive, in part because of information the rogue leader could offer, in part because Qurong meant to make an example of him.†   (source)
  • It described a rogue deep-cover agent, a walking time bomb with a thousand secrets in his head, who had gone over the edge.†   (source)
  • The one may perhaps overlook an instance of roguery, from inadvertance and too much confidence.†   (source)
  • My father is a roguing knave, even sober.†   (source)
  • The rogue progeny of some sweet-named Caribbean hurricane had come north, liked it and stayed.†   (source)
  • Full of ambushes and firefights, it centered on the hunt for a rogue North Vietnamese colonel.†   (source)
  • Ajax's dour, battle-scarred face broke out in a rogue's grin.†   (source)
  • I was fond of the old rogue, but never so great a fool as to trust him.†   (source)
  • Roguish fauns and naked nymphs peeked down at Billy from festooned cornices.†   (source)
  • My chest drains of all heat thinking about what a rogue military group would do to an angel prisoner.†   (source)
  • "Why, that old rogue!" she said.†   (source)
  • We will borrow some horses from the Bedoowan and take along a few whistles in case we run into any rogue quigs.†   (source)
  • bloody rogues.†   (source)
  • John Wilkes Booth is one of eight children born to his flamboyant actor father, Junius Brutus Booth, a rogue if there ever was one.†   (source)
  • Kessell had even pulled in a large clan of ogres, a handful of trolls, and two score rogue verbeeg, the least of the giants but giants nonetheless.†   (source)
  • He was kind of rogue and did things that everyone else was afraid to try.†   (source)
  • And given their potential harm, the one thing you didn't want was a rogue Al.†   (source)
  • Their host was standing beside the flyer, a glass in each hand, looking down at them with a roguish expression.†   (source)
  • The remark seems roguish, ambiguous.†   (source)
  • I've thought of an updated wording: 'Jump rogue, and princess leap, 'My wife art thou and mine to keep!'†   (source)
  • And then he smiled, a roguish Irish smile.†   (source)
  • She was a bit of a rogue and a coquette, God bless her, behind all her shyness and blushes.†   (source)
  • (Enter CHAPUYS) CHAPUYS (Roguish) Yes, I should like to know that, Master Cromwell.†   (source)
  • Only the one though," she adds roguishly.†   (source)
  • "Same to you," said the fat lady with a roguish grin, and she swung forward to admit them.†   (source)
  • Two can play at this game, he thought, hiding a roguish smile.†   (source)
  • The tiny bright eyes beneath the doggy coiffure twinkle roguishly at him.†   (source)
  • The Brit gave them both a roguish smile and opened the cabinet on the limo's bar.†   (source)
  • "I was speaking to my Champion," Dorian said with a roguish wink.†   (source)
  • He smiled at her, the darkening stubble on his face adding a bit of roguishness to his appearance.†   (source)
  • I haven't the slightest idea," he admitted with a roguish smile.†   (source)
  • You disagree, or rough-and-roguish isn't your type?"†   (source)
  • He gave them another roguish wink.†   (source)
  • He smiled roguishly.†   (source)
  • It was Magnus Bane, wearing a long and glittering coat, multiple hoops in his ears, and a roguish expression.†   (source)
  • I would never have been able to make remarks like the last, nor allude in such a roguish fashion to the house of McGraw-Hill, had it not been for the fact that the senior editor above me who read all my reports was a man sharing my disillusionment with our employer and all that the vast and soulless empire stood for.†   (source)
  • Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!†   (source)
  • No one was going to be playing rogue here next summer.†   (source)
  • An explosion blew the doors apart and Redd and her rogue soldiers spilled into the room.†   (source)
  • W. I. Rogue says they will put it in his toothpaste.†   (source)
  • There were a few rogues and one or two outright loons, but several camp employees were friendly.†   (source)
  • "So, you brought me some rogue storm spirits," Aeolus said.†   (source)
  • Between two leaves I finally saw W. I. Rogue.†   (source)
  • We brought you these rogue storm spirits.†   (source)
  • "That rogue with the turkey leg in his mouth," Antinous continued, "that's Hasdrubal of Carthage.†   (source)
  • It is about the rogue vampire, Maureen Brown.†   (source)
  • 'And don't leave anything out,' added the rogue intelligence officer.†   (source)
  • It had been Davos who had made the journey to Lys to recruit the old rogue to Lord Stannis's cause.†   (source)
  • Death …. he told me I wasn't on your list of rogue spirits to capture.†   (source)
  • Or at least some rogue elements in the French government.†   (source)
  • Since when have the Angel's children become the bodyguards for rogue Downworlders?†   (source)
  • After we went rogue in Dayton, Vosch dispatched two squads to hunt us down.†   (source)
  • "We have dealt with rogue giants many times before," the spokesman replied coolly.†   (source)
  • The pack uses it to put down wolves who've gone rogue," he said.†   (source)
  • Or multiple someones: After we went rogue in Dayton, Vosch dispatched two squads to hunt us down.†   (source)
  • Rogue policemen who broke in and bugged Blomkvist's apartment.†   (source)
  • Is it your fault that Bronn's an insolent black-hearted rogue?†   (source)
  • Vlad's main talent is silencing rogue magicians.†   (source)
  • Vampires go rogue and there is nothing that can be done to stop them.†   (source)
  • Vyndra wants my throne," said Prusias with a rogue's grin.†   (source)
  • I spotted that feller for a rogue and a shirk the minute I laid eyes on him.†   (source)
  • But you acted as rogues—without the leave of the thanes, and in …. questionable company.†   (source)
  • The rogue commander did what rogue commanders do.†   (source)
  • Were these giants simply passing rogues, or are they lairing in the area?†   (source)
  • "A rogue vampire is a rogue vampire," said Raphael.†   (source)
  • A rogue dictator was threatening the stability of the region.†   (source)
  • Tell me what pack you're sworn to, or I'll have to assume you're rogue.†   (source)
  • He's always been an insolent black-hearted rogue.†   (source)
  • Next you'll be telling me you're a rogue and a rake.†   (source)
  • You are a treacherous old rogue, Salladhor Saan, but a good friend all the same.†   (source)
  • There are protocols for dealing with rogue Downworlders.†   (source)
  • Your Worship, those sly rogues betrayed your trust.†   (source)
  • Too few honest men to keep the rogues in line.†   (source)
  • And I trust you'll not catch me, milord rogue," she answered serenely.†   (source)
  • This very sword—"Jump Rogue and Princess leap.†   (source)
  • Back, you rogue!†   (source)
  • The cells were reserved for the worst of criminals: vampires gone rogue, warlocks who broke the Covenant Law, Shadowhunters who spilled each other's blood.†   (source)
  • He was better looking when smiling, I had to give him that, although he was so dark and had a rogue's twist to the mouth.†   (source)
  • All them rogues down there on the avenue … the ones that ain't in jail … and Lyons is hopping in his shoes to get down there with them lyons: See, Pop … if you give somebody else a chance to talk sometime, you'd see that I was fixing to pay you back your ten dollars like I told you.†   (source)
  • Certain low-life crooks and many admitted rogues behaved more bravely and helpfully in the ghetto or the concentration camp than a good many educated, respectable middle-class people.†   (source)
  • Any nearer was foolhardy, for you never knew when a sudden gust or rogue front might clutch the ship and thrust her down into the drink.†   (source)
  • And then some rogue synapse within her connected this scene to her father, to seeing him on the couch, helpless over his body, and she wanted badly to be somewhere else.†   (source)
  • He was going to do some whistle-blowing through a rogue Web site — those things have a wide viewership, it would have wrecked the pleebland sales of every single HelthWyzer vitamin supplement, plus it would have torched the entire scheme.†   (source)
  • One of the rogue mallets was gone.†   (source)
  • She had to give her rogue soldiers credit: They might not have been the most imaginative, they might have been novices in Black Imagination, but every single one of them had learned well how to kill.†   (source)
  • It was one of them rogues, sir, a big cliff of water from nowhere, working against the wind, and it came and clipped us as it crested.†   (source)
  • Through the thicket of legs around him, Harry spotted Fred and George Weasley, wrestling the rogue Bludger into a box.†   (source)
  • I said that Jeremiah was a peddler, and well known to me from former days; and McDermott looked at the pack — which was opened by this time, for Jeremiah had opened it up as we were talking, although he had not spread out all of the things — and said that was all very well, but Mr. Kinnear would be annoyed to find out that I had been wasting good beer and cheese on a common rogue of a peddler.†   (source)
  • There are rogues and scoundrels everywhere, but they use a different sort of language to excuse themselves; and there they pay a great lip service to democracy, just as here they rant on about the right order of society, and loyalty to the Queen; though the poor man is poor on every shore.†   (source)
  • I. Rogue?†   (source)
  • THE ROGUE BLUDGER†   (source)
  • He could hear laughter from the crowd; he knew he must look very stupid, but the rogue Bludger was heavy and couldn't change direction as quickly as Harry could; he began a kind of roller-coaster ride around the edges of the stadium, squinting through the silver sheets of rain to the Gryffindor goal posts, where Adrian Pucey was trying to get past Wood A whistling in Harry's ear told him the Bludger had just missed him again; he turned right over and sped in the opposite direction.†   (source)
  • "Thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine," the old rogue was saying when Davos and the captain came down the hatch.†   (source)
  • John stayed by my side most of the night, and I know even he is not rogue enough to attempt such a tryst at his own party, so I'm greatly relieved to know he had no part in this, or any other such assignation.†   (source)
  • Even a rogue wave—a tidal monstrosity—would hardly daunt such a vessel, and Max doubted it had been crafted for earthly seas.†   (source)
  • We'd combined forces (more or less) to defeat the god Set, but he still considered us dangerous rogue magicians.†   (source)
  • "Lily, if what you're worried about is that the Shadowhunters will take it out on all Downworlders if some of us go rogue while they're in Idris, well, that's why we're doing what we're doing.†   (source)
  • If there's any reason to cast doubt on Bublanski's group, we can always single him out as a rogue policeman.†   (source)
  • A hundred assorted monsters were marching past the lanes of stopped traffic: giants with clubs, rogue Cyclopes, a few fire-spitting dragons, and just to rub it in, a World War II—era Sherman tank, pushing cars out of its way as it rumbled into the tunnel.†   (source)
  • 'The murderous rogue!' cried Eomer.†   (source)
  • Rogues?†   (source)
  • Hard Tack became a notorious rogue, inspiring turf writer John Hervey to dub him "the archexponent of recalcitrance."†   (source)
  • You just said 'a killer they call the Jackal,' and before that you alluded to Bourne as a relatively insignificant rogue agent trained to pose as an assassin, a strategy that failed, so he was pensioned off-'gold-watch time,' I believe you said.†   (source)
  • The horse had proved fairly useful as a stakes horse, but he was an incorrigible rogue at the starting gate.†   (source)
  • I told them that I had heard of criminals masquerading as freedom fighters, harassing innocent people and setting alight vehicles; these rogues had no place in the struggle.†   (source)
  • He grabbed the mop that he was going to use to swab up the boys' bathroom and charged back out, ready to do battle with the rogue delinquents who mocked the sanctity of the girls' lavatory.†   (source)
  • Slyed out of his honest wages by some rogue off the street with a tale so staggering Charlie's embarrassed to tell his friends.†   (source)
  • Amiable rogues all three, the brothers were in truth much more skilled at deceit than they'd ever been at bloodletting.†   (source)
  • Tattered and twisty, what a rogue I am.†   (source)
  • I didn't immediately start making rogue decisions when I became CEO, and I wasn't interested in changing the way we'd done business for the previous thirty-something years.†   (source)
  • That old rogue Ulmer of the Kingswood proved as adept at dancing as he was at archery, no doubt regaling his partners with his tales of the Kingswood Brotherhood, when he rode with Simon Toyne and Big Belly Ben and helped Wenda the White Fawn burn her mark in the buttocks of her highborn captives.†   (source)
  • Neither Smith nor his exercise rider had raised a hand to him, but the colt had learned the lesson that would transform him from a rogue to a pliant, happy horse: He would never again be forced to do what he didn't want to do.†   (source)
  • And of course, dealing with rogues—†   (source)
  • Under McGirr, Pollard became known as a specialist in rogues and troubled horses and began to win regularly with them.†   (source)
  • They just knew we were escaped rogues brought back for judgment, following the bodies of three Valkyries.†   (source)
  • In Millennium Challenge—in what would turn out to be an inspired (or, depending on your perspective, disastrous) piece of casting—Paul Van Riper was asked to play the rogue commander.†   (source)
  • With Balon Swann hunting the rogue knight Darkstar down in Dome, Loras Tyrell gravely wounded on Dragonstone, and Jaime vanished in the riverlands, only four of the White Swords remained in King's Landing, and Ser Kevan had thrown Osmund Kettleblack (and his brother Osfryd) into the dungeon within hours of Cersei's confessing that she had taken both men as lovers.†   (source)
  • Even here he was only tolerated by most, but in the unspoken kinship of fellow rogues, few people bothered him.†   (source)
  • According to the Millennium Challenge scenario, a rogue military commander had broken away from his government somewhere in the Persian Gulf and was threatening to engulf the entire region in war.†   (source)
  • "Rogues and cutthroats, scum of a hundred battlefields," Ser Barristan warned, "with captains full as treacherous as Plumm."†   (source)
  • No—I was just wondering— Well, if there really is a rogue vampire cutting her way through Lower Manhattan, the pack should know.†   (source)
  • Granted, Lonelywood was the smallest and northernmost of the ten towns, a place where the rogues of rogues hid out, but Regis still considered his appointment an honor.†   (source)
  • Rogues and liars, all of you.†   (source)
  • She'd been hunting demons and lawbreaking Downworlders—rogue vampires, black-magic-practicing warlocks, werewolves who'd run wild and eaten someone—since she was twelve years old, and was probably better at what she did than any other Shadowhunter her age, with the exception of her brother face.†   (source)
  • With Lonelywood growing into greater prominence and shaking off its reputation as a melting pot of rogues, the town needed a more aggressive person to sit on the council.†   (source)
  • A rogue Downworlder.†   (source)
  • As became clear less than a year later—when the United States invaded a Middle Eastern state with a rogue commander who had a strong ethnic power base and was thought to be harboring terrorists—this was a full dress rehearsal for war.†   (source)
  • Rogues?†   (source)
  • I can only describe her manner to me as roguish.†   (source)
  • Shorty sang in a low mumble, smiling, rolling his eyes, looking at the white man roguishly.†   (source)
  • As he said this, his smile was quite cunning—a downright roguish leer.†   (source)
  • Eyes as blue as Southern skies looked roguishly up to laughing gray ones, the winsome dimples deepened, and the sweetest little tail in dear old Dixie slid gently over on the polished board.†   (source)
  • Remarkable the look that Hermine now gave me, a look full of amusement, full of irony and roguishness and fellow feeling, and at the same time so grave, so wise, so unfathomably serious.†   (source)
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