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  • Despite the carnage, perhaps it was good that magic had vanished.†   (source)
  • The place smells to him of carnage.†   (source)
  • Those who had entered a little too quickly into the carnage and destruction had trouble adapting to life during peacetime.†   (source)
  • The sixth man ran from the carnage …. but not far.†   (source)
  • Though they were still fairly evenly matched with the enemy, they huddled together like the last survivors of a massacre, as if they hoped the enemy would overlook them in the carnage.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the simplest way to reduce future carnage would be to ban bottled oxygen except for emergency medical use.†   (source)
  • In my dream, Lilly and I weren't fighting anymore; she and Tina had become friends; Boris Pelkowski actually turned out to be not so bad when you got him away from his violin; Mr. Gianini said he was raising my nine week grade from an F to a D; I slow-danced with Michael Moscovitz; and Iran bombed Afghanistan, so there wasn't a single picture of me and Josh kissing in any newspaper on the newsstand, since all the papers were filled with photos of war carnage.†   (source)
  • There was no escape from the carnage that surrounded him.†   (source)
  • I watched as the worlds of blacks and whites smashed together in newsrooms and threw off chunks of human carnage that landed at my feet.†   (source)
  • Through the scene of destruction I hear a scratching noise, something separate from the carnage on Lorien.†   (source)
  • Kassad paused in the eye of the storm to see Moneta in the center of her own circle of carnage.†   (source)
  • The helicopter pilot fought for control, unaware of the carnage behind him but certainly aware of the raging fires around and above him.†   (source)
  • Mrs. D. C. Taylor, a frequent visitor to the fair, called Krupp's biggest gun "a fearful hideous thing, breathing of blood and carnage, a triumph of barbarism crouching amid the world's triumphs of civilization."†   (source)
  • Although the carnage was far worse in Dresden, a larger proportion of Plauen's buildings was destroyed.†   (source)
  • He worries he's going to vomit and disgrace himself, confirm Amra's view of him, of them—the wealthy, wide-eyed exiles—come home to gawk at the carnage now that the boogeymen have left.†   (source)
  • The panoramic carnage.†   (source)
  • C#96 CHAPTER 96 Mal'akh stood in his hallway and surveyed the carnage around him.†   (source)
  • He can turn effortlessly from the carnage of war into the felicity of a woman washing her hair in a mountain stream.†   (source)
  • In the midst of the carnage, we looked to Valentine to lead us.†   (source)
  • And fear struck him: If Idaho suspects me or grows impatient—if he doesn't wait and go exactly where I told him—Jessica and Paul will not be saved from the carnage.†   (source)
  • They are reluctant to believe so much carnage could be the work of one individual.†   (source)
  • When she arrived home a couple of hours later, Marley, standing amid the carnage of his desperate escape attempt, was in a complete, panic-stricken lather.†   (source)
  • Militants from Saeed and Nadia's country had crossed over to Vienna the previous week, and the city had witnessed massacres in the streets, the militants shooting unarmed people and then disappearing, an afternoon of carnage unlike anything Vienna had ever seen, well, unlike anything it had seen since the fighting of the previous century, and of the centuries before that, which were of an entirely different and greater magnitude, Vienna being no stranger, in the annals of history, to…†   (source)
  • Sometimes when we would go to San Francisco in the carnage, and pass by the square, there he was, a grown man no taller than me at twelve.†   (source)
  • There must be some mistake, please let there be a mistake, she thought, even as she looked around at the carnage and felt Peter's name swell like a sob in her throat.†   (source)
  • Helene and I walk past the youngest students, four classes of maskless Yearlings, who will have the clearest view of the carnage.†   (source)
  • We passed a sign that said: REDUCE ROAD CARNAGE-DRIVE SAFELY.†   (source)
  • He pressed the cloth tighter to his nose and mouth and forced himself to look away from the carnage.†   (source)
  • Pippa is tearing the carnations apart one by one and sprinkling the colorful carnage over the cave floor.†   (source)
  • Jeff Buschmann, on hand to witness the carnage, heard a succession of grunts as Adam hit branch after branch on his way down.†   (source)
  • He said the mujahadeen were fighting bravely, but the Indian air force was inflicting terrible carnage on the men trying to hold hilltop positions ever since they learned to drop their bombs from above the range of the mujahadeen's missiles.†   (source)
  • Some Marines dropped into a deep, terror-induced sleep amid the carnage and had to be kicked awake by their officers.†   (source)
  • The allies turned and ran up and out of the small valley, away from the carnage that was taking place among their fallen comrades.†   (source)
  • Its flight is so sudden I recoil, jerking my arm up, sending the beam of light over the ceiling and a whole cloudy scene of carnage.†   (source)
  • She was on her knees, pressed against me, and the carnage was swaying like a ship at sea.†   (source)
  • Cambodia had recently been through American bombardment, a civil war, a paroxysm of carnage by local Communists that reduced the small nation by a fifth, and finally occupation by neighboring Vietnam, which by then was a mere vassal of Russia.†   (source)
  • I think only about six or seven of them managed to avoid the carnage, and I have no idea what happened to them.†   (source)
  • No cuts, no bruises, not even a hint of the carnage he remembered from the chase.†   (source)
  • A bogus expert often provided the opportunity for some real carnage before the jury, but not so with witnesses like Dr. Swaney.†   (source)
  • Being who he was, he could not possibly accept the prospect of being outdone by the ragtag enemy, even if the carnage that had resulted from such an attack at Bunker Hill was as well known to him as to any man alive.†   (source)
  • The storm had blown away like a violent, unwanted intruder racing off into the night leaving behind the carnage of its rage.†   (source)
  • It was as if she didn't want him, surrounded by such carnage, to feel left out.†   (source)
  • Perhaps some of these investigators, who had walked through the unspeakable carnage of major air disasters, did not always find their way easily into sleep.†   (source)
  • Broken bodies and equipment stretched as far as Max could see—a grisly feast for thousands of crows that flapped and hopped about the shocking carnage.†   (source)
  • I couldn't stop the pictures in my head, explosions like a flash-bang grenade was going off behind my eyes: carnage in the street, bodies on the floor of a pizza shop, a movie theater, the county fair.†   (source)
  • Burnt gets up and walks away from the carnage.†   (source)
  • I thought you'd like it, sweetheart …. it's sort of to your taste …. blood, carnage and all.†   (source)
  • A woman who had somehow evaded police lines and tumbled through the snow too close to the carnage was sick and had to be helped away.†   (source)
  • Pilots are granted the luxury of not witnessing the results of their terrible passage, their rapacious encounters with earth; they are far removedfrom the carnage, grief, and destruction that their visitation inevitably brings to the targeted population.†   (source)
  • What I saw there was almost as horrible as the carnage that was taking place in the arena.†   (source)
  • If there is any more death, any more blood spilt or men killed, it will be produced by your hands, Mr. Ruiz, as has been all the carnage and cruelty of this affair.†   (source)
  • Only certain portions of the line had to undergo carnage in the French style, but knowledge of it was allpervasive.†   (source)
  • The time between foreign wars was filled with domestic convulsions and carnage.†   (source)
  • Yet amid the carnage of the bloody scene, a finger of mercy was to be found.†   (source)
  • Randall's girlfriend returned to find the carnage and called the police.†   (source)
  • Gospodin President, this carnage must stop!†   (source)
  • For once the carnage wasn't human.†   (source)
  • "Three days later my predecessor retired to civilian life, and the Minister issued a press statement: 'The Department of Mines and Resources is determined to do everything in its power to curb the carnage being wreaked upon the deer population by hordes of wolves.†   (source)
  • Climactic carnage, by poison and by steel-!†   (source)
  • And so the carnage begins, beneath Floss's narrow, watchful and impassive eye: "I had to appear cold and indifferent to events that must have wrung the heart of anyone possessed of human feelings.†   (source)
  • We slew everyone aboard both boarding ships and opened their hatches and sent them down to Rebma where Random would be amused by the carnage.†   (source)
  • Oh, the carnage of August: the flies that flew to heaven!†   (source)
  • And he saw her, with the dumb, pale, startled ghosts of joy and desire hovering in him yet, a thin, vivid, dark-eyed girl, with something Indian in her cheekbones and her carnage and her hair; looking at him with that look in which were blended mockery, affection, desire, impatience, and scorn; dressed in the flamelike colors that, in fact, she had seldom worn, but that he always thought of her as wearing.†   (source)
  • Rome was never sated of carnage and conquest.   (source)
  • Jove drew Hector away from the darts and dust, with the carnage and din of battle;   (source)
  • When first period ended, our English teacher, Mr. de Milo, came outside to inspect the carnage.†   (source)
  • The lid was decorated even more intricately than the sides-with scenes of carnage and power.†   (source)
  • She was staring in amazement at the carnage of fruit, mangled corpses, and broken tree limbs.†   (source)
  • But why has he saved us from the carnage?†   (source)
  • Let's find a corner free of carnage where we can sleep and eat our evening meal.†   (source)
  • We had no idea how many years of carnage awaited us.†   (source)
  • Valentine glanced up, as if he could see through the hull of the ship to the carnage on deck.†   (source)
  • She landed on the top of Zeus's Fist and surveyed the carnage.†   (source)
  • In so many years of slaughter and carnage, I'd lost nearly all of my humanity.†   (source)
  • The rook paused just inside the room, shaking his battlement-topped head at the carnage.†   (source)
  • I looked around at the carnage in the clearing, and the weary faces of my friends.†   (source)
  • Much of the carnage could be their doing.†   (source)
  • Why, I did great carnage there and won a dozen ransoms.†   (source)
  • He stood calmly and stared at the carnage.†   (source)
  • Maybe they could sense the death and carnage he'd unleashed.†   (source)
  • Once only, when you need us, destruction, waste, carnage shall answer.†   (source)
  • Get your eight bucks worth of carnage," I insisted as we walked up the aisle.†   (source)
  • Take care they do not become the hands of a man who revels in the carnage of war.†   (source)
  • And I see you've already managed a bite," he added, glimpsing the culinary carnage.†   (source)
  • The two attackers did not immediately flee the carnage they had inflicted.†   (source)
  • She wasn't like the Greek Enyo, who was simply an embodiment of carnage.†   (source)
  • He silently runs to the other side of the circle of destruction, ignoring the carnage.†   (source)
  • All you could see was the carnage of the landing craft being blown up on the beach.†   (source)
  • Kagan stood in her royal box looking down on the carnage.†   (source)
  • We don't practice the same carnage up here as they do lower down.†   (source)
  • The moment her back is turned, Charlotte continues her carnage.†   (source)
  • Every time it happens, it gets harder to ignore the carnage at my feet.†   (source)
  • His shirt, which had been off at the time of his shooting, had been spared the carnage.†   (source)
  • And all of us were pressed into a carnage.†   (source)
  • Even the gae bolga had grown silent, choked and sated from the carnage.†   (source)
  • And if not, it may turn to blood and carnage.†   (source)
  • Would you have me drag a sickly child into the midst of such carnage?†   (source)
  • Hordes of angels circle the air, viewing the carnage.†   (source)
  • "You!" the iron captain called across the carnage.†   (source)
  • Speechless, Max wrenched his gaze away from the carnage and looked out over the sea.†   (source)
  • Its wayward landing down the beach had touched off a comic moment before the carnage.†   (source)
  • The sleet slows to a drizzle, and the mist on the battlefield clears, revealing the carnage.†   (source)
  • I was thinking only, I can feel the carnage moving; I am alive; I am conscious.†   (source)
  • Marriage or carnage, those are my choices.†   (source)
  • The light is fading fast, but there's enough to see the carnage.†   (source)
  • In the midst of all this carnage and confusion was my father.†   (source)
  • It took two score Dreadfort spearmen to part the combatants and put an end to the carnage.†   (source)
  • David hissed and pointed toward the carnage in the center.†   (source)
  • Meereenese of lesser birth crowded the upper tiers, more distant from the carnage.†   (source)
  • I slip on the blood in the middle of the carnage but manage to regain my footing before I fall.†   (source)
  • Paid he for this carnage with other than a song?†   (source)
  • The carnage was even worse under the blue sky and the golden bridge.†   (source)
  • It is the days of carnage through which the two of you rode together.†   (source)
  • They crossed the place of carnage, each in his own fashion.†   (source)
  • All around them was carnage.†   (source)
  • Sooner or later the divestiture of such a privileged innocence was inevitable, but when it finally happened the shock was magnified by the sheer superfluity of the carnage: all told, Everest killed twelve men and women in the spring of 1996, the worst single-season death toll since climbers first set foot on the peak seventy-five years ago.†   (source)
  • Carnage trailed in her wake.†   (source)
  • And you thought it best to place me in the midst of this carnage, yet keep me ignorant of your plans.†   (source)
  • Carnage.†   (source)
  • Holmes was unmoved; Minnie and Anna were horrified but also strangely thrilled by the efficiency of the carnage.†   (source)
  • After several seconds of just standing there mute, staring at the carnage, I finally said, "Okay, we can handle this.†   (source)
  • …New Jersey, to Manhattan, then take the subway to Brooklyn, and wander around the projects like the Pope, the only white person in sight, waving to friends, stepping past the drug addicts, smiling at the young mothers pushing their children in baby carnages, slipping into the poorly lit hallway of 80 Dwight Street while the young dudes in hooded sweatshirts stare balefully at the strange, bowlegged old white lady in Nikes and red sweats who slowly hobbles up the three flights of dark,…†   (source)
  • The carnage was not as widespread as the southern wars on this continent, but more devastating in its own way.†   (source)
  • The thought that we might be driven to the sad necessity of breaking our connection with G[reat] B[ritain], exclusive of the carnage and destruction which it was easy to see must attend the separation, always gave me a great deal of grief.†   (source)
  • After the battle there had been thousands of them struggling through the forest, hungry, frightened, fleeing the carnage that had descended on them at the Wall.†   (source)
  • The collision sent up a plume of spray, an explosion of water and mist that mercifully obscured the carnage beneath.†   (source)
  • Tyres spinning, the black sedan raced away in the dark street, leaving the carnage behind, blood and torn flesh everywhere.†   (source)
  • How is it she can enjoy bloodthirsty tales of all manner of carnage yet nearly faint at the notion of bare shins?†   (source)
  • Carnage without any point?†   (source)
  • She spurred Battlestorm away from the carnage that lay before the camp, the stallion tossing his head and gnawing on his bit.†   (source)
  • Snapped wood, frayed rope, and tattered sails had been left in their wake, a trail of nautical carnage.†   (source)
  • In the midst of carnage and chaos and blowing snow, he found Dolorous Edd sitting on his garron with a plain black banner on a spear.†   (source)
  • It was three days since the Varden and dwarves had fought the Urgals for possession of Tronjheim, the mile-high, conical city nestled in the center of Farthen Dur, but the battlefield was still strewn with carnage.†   (source)
  • You commandeered a police contingent and found nothing, but shortly thereafter your highly professional instincts sent you back beyond the time span, unfortunately too late to stop the carnage.†   (source)
  • In the distance, on the roads of Victoria Peak, two-note sirens wailed in counterpoint to the sounds of carnage taking place within the grounds of the sterile house.†   (source)
  • Don't you want endless carnage?†   (source)
  • Weeping for the dead scattered through the night, shuddering with horror at the carnage, wonderstruck by her survival, slammed by a hurricane of emotion, Rose stands with the girl cradled in her arms but is unable to take a single step.†   (source)
  • He sits down and takes the time to calmly pour a bowl of Rice Krispies, unaffected by the carnage around him.†   (source)
  • Make me an offer, you miserable little thing, or I'll show you such a scene of carnage that you'll never sleep again!†   (source)
  • "The carnage would then have been dreadful," wrote Mackenzie, "for the rebels were so numerous they had not room to defend themselves with effect, and so frightened they had not the power."†   (source)
  • Jasper asked half fearfully, as if he hoped the answer was no, and his old brother could be spared from the coming carnage.†   (source)
  • When they crested the top of the ruins and saw the carnage spread out below them, the halfling realized the enormity of the destruction.†   (source)
  • If all monsters had to hear that song about liking piña coladas and getting caught in the rain, no wonder they were in the mood for carnage when they reached the mortal world.†   (source)
  • As they passed through the battleground, Catelyn glimpsed signs of the carnage that had been; an overturned helm filling with rain, a splintered lance, the bones of a horse.†   (source)
  • Terrified, in a state of shock, horrified by the carnage, lost in the wilds, she had preferred to risk death from starvation and exposure rather than be found by a rescue team and perhaps fall into the hands of her eerily powerful enemies.†   (source)
  • When I was in training, before I knew what it was going to be like, even though I had read of the carnage in France-you simply cannot understand until you face it yourself-they marched us to a theater in Lucca, half a day from camp….†   (source)
  • Martland stuck his sword in the dirt, leaned on the pommel, and surveyed the carnage within the triangle of wagons.†   (source)
  • The three spokesmen turned to see the giant Wulfgar striding out from the dusty, surrealistic scene of carnage.†   (source)
  • She surveyed the carnage: her porcelain in the wagon, the shards of her favorite tea sets scattered over the lawn, Frank's arrows sticking out of the ground, the trees, the fenceposts, and one in the head of a smiling garden gnome.†   (source)
  • His friends joined in the carnage.†   (source)
  • She had saved the life of the very monster who had conceived and plotted this carnage, and after her arrival in America she had been unable to uncover a single piece of intelligence about the targets, the other terrorists, or the timing of the attack.†   (source)
  • Epilogue Edward Newington McAllister, on crutches, limped into the once-impressive study of the old house on Victoria Peak, its huge bay windows now covered by heavy plastic, the carnage all too apparent.†   (source)
  • After the battle, Mina had found him amid the carnage on the beach, resembling a muddy eel, half choked with sand and seaweed.†   (source)
  • The race through "London," "Coventry" and "Portsmouth" could only be likened to the newsreel footage from World War II depicting the carnage hurled down on Great Britain by the Luftwaffe, compounded by first the screaming and then the silent terror of the V-2 and V-5 rockets.†   (source)
  • It seemed a small comfort to Cassius, Kemp, and Jensin Brent as they looked around at the carnage on the scarred field.†   (source)
  • Jaime always said that the hardest part of any battle is just before, waiting for the carnage to begin.†   (source)
  • But when I reach the edge of the carnage, the ground lurches and the battlefield stretches out ahead of me again in its entirety.†   (source)
  • In the midst of the carnage, Doc Bradley ran through the chaos, doing what he could in this landscape of blood.†   (source)
  • Marriage or carnage.†   (source)
  • Most had been strangers to one another when they came to the grove, he learned subsequently; when Stannis broke Mance Rayder's host, they had fled into the woods to escape the carnage, wandered for a time, lost friends and kin to cold and starvation, and finally washed up here, too weak and weary to go on.†   (source)
  • I would often come in his yard to find the carcass of a deer strung from a tree, the carnage of the hunt in evidence all around, guts littering the ground, and Ted sitting proudly on a lawn chair.†   (source)
  • Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?†   (source)
  • It has been a terrible carnage, we know.†   (source)
  • I looked back at the scene of carnage.†   (source)
  • …an echo, but not the shot; I saw a closed door but did not enter it I remember bow that afternoon when we carried the coffin from the house (Jones and another white man which be produced, exhumed, from somewhere made it of boards torn from the carnage house; I remember bow while we ate the food which Judith—yes, Judith: the same face calm cold and tranquil above the stove—had cooked, ate it in the very room which be lay over we could hear them hammering and sawing in the back yard, and…†   (source)
  • They will belong to the past, and, seeing all these horrors of past times, all mankind will sit down and weep at the memory of them, the memory of blood and the horrible life of monads, at misunderstanding and murderous rages and carnage of innocents.†   (source)
  • He bade his hearers picture a huge wooden bar whirling above the town, striking at random, swinging up again in a shower of drops of blood, and spreading carnage and suffering on earth, "for the seedtime that shall prepare the harvest of the truth."†   (source)
  • If the violence of the battles which people never hear about could be measured in material statistics, the battle of Kent Lansing against the board of directors of the Aquitania Corporation would have been listed among the greatest carnages of history.†   (source)
  • "It has been "a terrible carnage."†   (source)
  • For numbers and for carnage it was an Austerlitz or Dresden.†   (source)
  • The mass has not been said there since the carnage.†   (source)
  • The Jews deluged the smoking ruins of their temple with the carnage of the remnant of their host.†   (source)
  • We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred.†   (source)
  • The carnage had only ceased at this late hour of the day because there were other more interesting sights for the people to witness, a little while before the final closing of the barricades for the night.†   (source)
  • Then they were tottering after their mothers, gamboling at a day's growth, wilful as youth—and the carnage began.†   (source)
  • Birds of prey they were--carrion-eaters, vultures that were enticed from their natural habits, from the need for which nature created them, to fall foul on this carnage left by the hunters.†   (source)
  • Long had Tom Doan felt the encroachment of a mood he had at one time striven against--a morbid estimate of self, a consciousness that this carnage would debase him utterly if he did not soon abandon it.†   (source)
  • Here began a fearful carnage.†   (source)
  • It was a time of carnage.†   (source)
  • It's remarkable, in fact, that the majority, indeed, of these benefactors and leaders of humanity were guilty of terrible carnage.†   (source)
  • An alderman coming from a turtle feast will not step out of his carnage to steal a leg of mutton; but put him to starve, and see if he will not purloin a loaf.†   (source)
  • I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight was in carnage and misery; had he not murdered my brother?†   (source)
  • "Well, we have happily frightened the birds from this side of the valley," said Marmaduke, "and the carnage must of necessity end for the present.†   (source)
  • To Mr. Lorry, the Doctor communicated under an injunction of secrecy on which he had no need to dwell, that the crowd had taken him through a scene of carnage to the prison of La Force.†   (source)
  • I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war; but I felt for the rest of that day as if I had had my feelings excited and harrowed by witnessing the struggle, the ferocity and carnage, of a human battle before my door.†   (source)
  • Thanks to him, everywhere present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for.†   (source)
  • From this denseness the carnage arose.†   (source)
  • The red regiment of English guards, lying flat behind the hedges, sprang up, a cloud of grape-shot riddled the tricolored flag and whistled round our eagles; all hurled themselves forwards, and the final carnage began.†   (source)
  • Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a rivulet formed of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the regiment of Brunswick destroyed, Duplat killed, Blackmann killed, the English Guards mutilated, twenty French battalions, besides the forty from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of Hougomont alone cut down, slashed to pieces, shot, burned, with their throats…†   (source)
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