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  • Loud creaks and groans announced a whole horde of Gladers running to the first floor.†   (source)
  • Every channel was airing OASIS footage showing the hordes of Sixer spacecraft and troops that were currently arriving on Ludus.†   (source)
  • It would feed a horde.†   (source)
  • Open a regular store for the hordes of people who are going to settle at this end of the city any day now.†   (source)
  • The Rusties had been stuck down in these streets like a horde of rats trapped in a burning maze.†   (source)
  • Hordes of people were swarming around, putting the last touches on the set—which now held rows of tiered seating for the Selected.†   (source)
  • They pulled the cart from the brush with which they'd covered it and he raised it up and piled the blankets in and the coats and they pushed on out to the road and stood looking where the last of that ragged horde seemed to hang like an afterimage in the disturbed air.†   (source)
  • A horde of television cameras and journalists spilled out of the crowded courtroom.†   (source)
  • And he was right — for the second time, Lynch hit the ground with tremendous force and was immediately stampeded by a horde of angry veela.†   (source)
  • Hordes of workmen still arrived every morning, but almost all of them worked indoors now.†   (source)
  • All three Kindly Ones were after them, along with a horde of hellhounds.†   (source)
  • The citizens of Anielle were warriors from birth, and had been guardians against the hordes of the wild men from the White Fang Mountains for generations.†   (source)
  • The island has its own septic system, which is a subject often discussed by the hordes of Keelings and Gibsons and Ormsbys who empty themselves into it—and who are fearful of the system's eventual rebellion.†   (source)
  • A demonic horde.†   (source)
  • Okay, but what about an intergalactic Mongol horde, like he was talking about?†   (source)
  • It was not the necessary priesthood, nor the most vital pursuit of an inquiring mind, nor the first and last defense against a barbarian horde, any more than the study of painting or music, history or science.†   (source)
  • The heavy double doors blew apart, a wall crumbled, and a horde of Redd's card soldiers charged through the blasted opening with swords raised.†   (source)
  • My thoughts flash back to the riot, to the innocent people tortured and killed by a mindless horde.†   (source)
  • Dany had never felt so alone as she did seated in the midst of that vast horde.†   (source)
  • A horde of customers crowds the desk, and everywhere I turn there are books, books, and more books.†   (source)
  • Seconds later, a horde of news hovers buzzed over the buildings on their way to the market square.†   (source)
  • They tended a garden filled with corn, peanuts, and greens, then headed to the tobacco fields with their cousins Cliff, Fred, Sadie, Margaret, and a horde of others.†   (source)
  • Things have gotten so bad in Holland that hordes of children stop passersby in the streets to beg for a piece of bread.†   (source)
  • Though he was dressed for the occasion, in a blue chalk-stripe suit (it had often struck me, the hordes of rich Russians in the Ralph Lauren shop on Madison), there was somehow no cleaning him up: his smudged eyes made him look stormy and disreputable, and though his hair wasn't technically dirty it gave the impression of dirtiness.†   (source)
  • No. You're not going to be disturbed by hordes of customers.†   (source)
  • The goblin/dwarf turf war had flared up again, and every morning hordes of angry parents showed up demanding the release of their innocent offspring.†   (source)
  • The villagers had been killed and Yazuac ransacked by a large horde, yet where was it?†   (source)
  • The cafeteria at the Chase Manhattan Bank where she worked served dinner to the employees for free, so she would load up with bologna sandwiches, cheese, cakes, whatever she could pillage, and bring it home for the hordes to devour.†   (source)
  • As we pushed through the hordes, GaoLing and I clung to each other's hands.†   (source)
  • The Ousters had been the single external threat to the Hegemony for the four centuries since the forebears of the barbarian hordes had left Sol System in their crude fleet of leaking O'Neill cities, tumbling asteroids, and experimental comet farm clusters.†   (source)
  • No longer did they have to memorize twelve identities and passwords; no longer did they have to tolerate the madness and rage of. the anonymous hordes; no longer did they have to put up with buckshot marketing that guessed, at best, within a mile of their desires.†   (source)
  • Mr. McElroy in world history, who announced that we were going to start by studying the barbarian hordes of western Russia, and then looked at me.†   (source)
  • One or two fellows might come skulking out eventually but there won't be an orgiastic horde, not tonight anyway.†   (source)
  • First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes.†   (source)
  • I drive downtown, past hordes of people awaking from a night on the pavement.†   (source)
  • Somewhere ahead of him on this path, the fanatic hordes cut their gory path across the universe in his name.†   (source)
  • More frightening to me were the hordes of rats, even though they never got close.†   (source)
  • He was going back to Sam, back to fight the horde of bloodthirsty newborn vampires.†   (source)
  • The world was moving so fast, so much money was being made, so many people were dying in Guam, and Germany, that hordes of strangers became good friends overnight.†   (source)
  • Then you should wait until the hordes of people run to wherever your friends are, and then sneak up on them from behind.†   (source)
  • Not far from River Valley Farm there is a mysterious stretch of countryside known as the Sand Hills; it is like a beach without an ocean, and at night coyotes slink among the dunes, assembling in hordes to howl.†   (source)
  • Selena had been expecting it-and still wasn't entirely prepared for the hordes of reporters, the television vans, the spectators holding up their camera phones to capture a snapshot of the melee.†   (source)
  • Everywhere we went we encountered hordes of people, scurrying about their business, grim-faced.†   (source)
  • Shades slithered, doors boomed, keys rattled their bones in locks, people fled with hordes of torn newspaper mice nibbling their heels.†   (source)
  • Every thump is a murderous aux soldier, every scritch a horde of rats.†   (source)
  • Elil appear in hordes.†   (source)
  • I turned to face Heath and Erik and the ghostly horde.†   (source)
  • While this may have been scary news in terms of Medicare and Social Security, the average American had little to fear from the growing horde of oldsters.†   (source)
  • In the swampy streets there were the remains of furniture, animal skeletons covered with red lilies, the last memories of the hordes of newcomers who had fled Macondo as wildly as they had arrived.†   (source)
  • He breaks our gaze and cranes his neck to see over the hordes.†   (source)
  • Such attacks—hordes of issen gorin rushing insanely through the darkness toward the bivouacked Americans—had been routine tactics in other Pacific island battles.†   (source)
  • I was let go, only to stagger on the cellar steps, the horde of them behind me and in front of me, pushing me with menacing hands.†   (source)
  • There were hordes of university students, and a busy pool table, but I sat alone with my beers, a greasy, rubbery cheeseburger, and my early thoughts on Casanova.†   (source)
  • Barbara looks down Thayer Street-overrun by hordes from Westport, Grosse Point, and Palo Alto.†   (source)
  • "Then I suppose you have a way to get past the horde of hollows who'll be guarding their entrances as well!"†   (source)
  • I pushed through the hordes of students, fighting against the current to make my way to the front desk.†   (source)
  • Then the moon of planting comes over the elm trees and shines on the horde of last year's seeds—It is then that he gathers the seeds and plants.†   (source)
  • Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs, the country ravished daily by new hordes, all his neighbors taken out and shothe could accept it all more easily than he dared admit.†   (source)
  • Tom turned again and saw that the white bat had circled and was streaking over the meadow, trumpeting as it blasted through the horde of black flies.†   (source)
  • She looked down the long table, smiled at the horde of lawyers, and said, "Good morning."†   (source)
  • He got a pure silver cigarette lighter, a gold-plated ink pen and a five-dollar camera, so that he could take all his experiences back to Alabama after they vanquished the communist horde and defended democracy, or whatever it was they were supposed to do.†   (source)
  • Jason pulled his young trainer to the side of the stampeding hordes, never for an instant taking his eyes off the darkened parking area.†   (source)
  • Here at the house, horse-drawn teams dragged plows and broke the earth while hordes of Chinamen shoveled furiously, filling wagons by the score.†   (source)
  • Hordes of Frenchmen and Irishmen, "the refuse of Europe," would flood the country and threaten the life of "all who love order, peace, virtue, and religion."†   (source)
  • The heads swayed lower, thrusting forward like great serpents to loom over the battlefield and its huddling hordes of people.†   (source)
  • So much so that hordes of tourists now invade the area each summer.†   (source)
  • Hordes of angels circle the air, viewing the carnage.†   (source)
  • The popcorn wrappers and the whiskey bottle testified to the kind of invading hordes that had rolled through the room, like waves washing the remnants of destruction away to unknown bottoms.†   (source)
  • After your lecture, I'll do everything I can to keep the thundering horde back.†   (source)
  • Out in the country are alert and zealous guardians of the language, like the armed camps the Romans maintained on the outer marches of the empire to guard civilization from the barbarian hordes.†   (source)
  • Hordes of your wounded passed through those wards.†   (source)
  • When there were complaints that hordes of children ran into Royden with muddy feet, Lalla bought ten pairs of stilts and taught them to walk across the paddy fields on these "borukakuls" or "lying legs."†   (source)
  • -and his horde of lunatic abolitionists had descended upon the scene, conjuring up a defense team that would no doubt do all they could to prolong the judicial proceedings for as long as possible.†   (source)
  • He can draw hordes, you know.†   (source)
  • "You look like one of the Golden Horde," Alessandro told him.†   (source)
  • the theiving hordes of Lincoln.†   (source)
  • But Kemp of Targos surely believes that his walled city is powerful enough to stand alone, whereas its rival, Teralaine, would be hardpressed to hold back the horde.†   (source)
  • Casto murmured as the doors opened to a horde of reporters.†   (source)
  • Not hordes but quite a few.†   (source)
  • Shmirg was now working the door, the saurian towering over the horde of Glatun.†   (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)
  • When Space Invaders was still in its proper place near the main entrance of the arcade, I used to stand there and spend hours every weekend defeating the never-ending alien hordes as the electronic music got faster and faster.†   (source)
  • " "You forget that our enemy is the horde of illegal squatters, no matter what nation they come from, who have settled in the Red Reserve.†   (source)
  • Sophie's cry, borne across the milling hordes on the beach below, could have been heard by ships far out at sea.†   (source)
  • Again—the glorious defense to the death of the Alamo against the hordes of Santa Anna is a fact.†   (source)
  • A broken mast, a snapped bowsprit, a section of deck planking and smashed gunwale visible above the mud, an agitated horde of little fish we had disturbed at whatever they were about within and near the hulk, a partial curtain of weeds drawn and redrawn by the currents, and that was all that remained of someone's hopes for a successful voyage, some shipbuilders' labors, and possibly a number of people whose last impressions were of storm or sword, and then the gray, blue, green, sudden…†   (source)
  • For some reason, Niagara Falls, the Virgin Islands, or any of the other meccas for the hordes of lusty young couples checking into motels did not arouse any enthusiasm in me.†   (source)
  • Where could you find room for all these hordes of people accumulated over thousands of years?†   (source)
  • As if borne in on a mist of twilight or a breath, a horde of mosquitoes and gnats came singing and striking at them first.†   (source)
  • Between a livid Lucrece and a horde of Sabine Women was a flush door of polished bronze.†   (source)
  • They are, certainly, more like a nation of saints than a horde of savages.   (source)
  • they all come bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand.   (source)
  • Family descended upon the house in hordes.†   (source)
  • Just as the carriers turned the corner, a horde of cats materialized all around them.†   (source)
  • There, it was rumoured, the kids ran in packs, in hordes.†   (source)
  • He is a strong man, brave …. and rash enough to meet a Dothraki horde in the open field.†   (source)
  • He pointed the knife at the horde of Grievers; a flash glinted off the blade.†   (source)
  • Momentarily foiled by the pickets, the Urgal horde milled with confusion.†   (source)
  • He remembered his army of demigods scaling Mount Tam, fighting through hordes of snake monsters.†   (source)
  • Jesus Wept," muttered Martin Silenus Cicero's looked as if it had been invaded by barbarian hordes.†   (source)
  • You'd rather face a ravening horde of demons, wouldn't you?†   (source)
  • Before the registration window was a horde of women, shoving and pushing against each other.†   (source)
  • One fight in Mr. McElroy's class with barbarian hordes.†   (source)
  • The idea of a world overwhelmed by hordes of Cranks was terrifying.†   (source)
  • Let it bring a horde of Silencers down upon me, I don't care.†   (source)
  • He swam to the crystal shore, his senses alive to any sign of Redd or her hordes.†   (source)
  • You can't believe how many filmstrips there are about the barbarian hordes of Russia.†   (source)
  • I'm just another recruit on her way to battle the alien horde.†   (source)
  • It was a slight miscalculation that I was still on Bressia when the Ouster hordes arrived.†   (source)
  • If the beggar king crosses with a Dothraki horde at his back, the traitors will join him.†   (source)
  • This Khal Drogo is said to have a hundred thousand men in his horde.†   (source)
  • Goats, sheep, and half-starved dogs wandered freely amongst hordes of women, children, and old men.†   (source)
  • By the Hordes who pursue us, what is all this nonsense?†   (source)
  • You've no need to cook for a horde again, Branna."†   (source)
  • The horde of faces blurred together into a bewildering mass.†   (source)
  • Well, it was normal-looking except for the hordes of uniformed men who were swarming around it.†   (source)
  • Their intoxicating aromas attracted hordes of bumblebees.†   (source)
  • I whispered, and just like that, we melted smoothly into the horde of schoolkids.†   (source)
  • How he sacrificed himself so 1 could escape to rescue Sam from the evil galactic horde.†   (source)
  • The Horde's attack had come from the canyon lands, through the Natalga Gap.†   (source)
  • I fear his lordship is eager to see the heels of my hungry horde.†   (source)
  • She let out a long breath, studying the media horde across the avenue.†   (source)
  • She disappeared into the silent horde, which closed around her as though she had been swallowed.†   (source)
  • For the briefest second, Max saw hordes of gaunt, starving creatures closing in upon them.†   (source)
  • He imagined hordes of monsters descending into this valley.†   (source)
  • He passed hordes of scrawny, dirty people who seemed on the edge of death.†   (source)
  • Hordes of people mill about the platform.†   (source)
  • He gazed around him at the horde of monsters.†   (source)
  • Mr. McDaniels looked past Augur at the assembled horde.†   (source)
  • "As if we'd have sex in a cave surrounded by hordes of demons.†   (source)
  • That means he s with the Horde right now.†   (source)
  • Hordes of well-to-do young Iranians traveled abroad in those years.†   (source)
  • The horde of white lawyers sat as stunned as Jake, but Wade Lanier quickly saw the opportunity.†   (source)
  • Carlisle gestured to the angry horde at the edge of the woods; some of them growled in response.†   (source)
  • A few hundred heroes, drunk most like, amidst a great horde of women, children, and thralls.†   (source)
  • X and Halfborn guarded our backs, slowing down the pursuing horde.†   (source)
  • Don't you know how futile it is, the mind, against those mindless hordes?†   (source)
  • It's all the blood that is owed to you tonight:' The smoky horde paused in their seething.†   (source)
  • Bloody Fields The horde entered the mouth of Bremen's Run just before midday.†   (source)
  • Despite this strategy, the hordes gossiped about us.†   (source)
  • Then, like a horde of dogs with the same scent in their nostrils, reporters scrambled forward.†   (source)
  • He waved loosely at the assembled legion, the hordes of monstrous armies spread across the hillside.†   (source)
  • I blasted through a horde of flies like they were the air itself.†   (source)
  • The man who'd led the Horde against them so effectively had been Johan.†   (source)
  • A great cry rose up among the assembled horde.†   (source)
  • They'd been in the Horde city three days.†   (source)
  • Percy gazed at the endless horde of monsters.†   (source)
  • The Horde camp was there, on the horizon, just visible against the red sand.†   (source)
  • A ground-shaking roar erupted from the horde of beasts.†   (source)
  • The barbarian horde drove through their ranks, singing and killing with wild abandonment.†   (source)
  • The horde of arai wailed, flapping their leathery wings and stirring up clouds of blackness.†   (source)
  • As he d hoped, the albinos had assumed that the Horde had taken what they'd come for.†   (source)
  • Tell them that the horde will reach Bremen's Run when the sun peaks tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Who would go with him to deal such a blow to the Horde?†   (source)
  • You lived with the Horde long enough to understand them better than most.†   (source)
  • Hordes of monsters stirred and jostled one another, but none of them came forward.†   (source)
  • Justin had smuggled a general from the Horde into the forest.†   (source)
  • The Horde library lay in shadows, deserted at this late hour.†   (source)
  • Using the black powder, we could destroy the Horde!†   (source)
  • Thomas s first thought was that the Horde had staged a massive attack.†   (source)
  • If you would die for Elyon, perhaps you should die for the Horde.†   (source)
  • Die protecting the forest and their children from the Horde, yes.†   (source)
  • Even Justin had swung his sword and fought the Horde once.†   (source)
  • There was only one way clear of the Horde warriors, and that was past Ciphus.†   (source)
  • Im saying that I know the Horde better than anyone here.†   (source)
  • Beside the tower, a ring of Horde encircled two Scabs.†   (source)
  • Have you considered the possibility that this goes beyond simple negotiation with the Horde?†   (source)
  • He was only a hundred feet from the main Horde army when he stopped again.†   (source)
  • If he's not dreaming with the Horde, there s no telling how many days will pass before he wakes up.†   (source)
  • To make peace with the Horde may defile your Great Romance, but it does not blaspheme Elyon.†   (source)
  • The Horde left us a message, William continued.†   (source)
  • The Horde will steer clear of their dead.†   (source)
  • 10 THE HORDE set fire to the Southern Forest at night, after three days of pitched battle.†   (source)
  • The revelation that the Horde was on their doorstep seemed to have tempered the crowd's nerve.†   (source)
  • The black Horde holed up in their prison while the Circle roamed free in their sea of red.†   (source)
  • Nearly two days had passed since the Horde army left them.†   (source)
  • The Horde line between them and the forest was their only real option.†   (source)
  • The Horde may know about the rhambutan fruit.†   (source)
  • But the memory of that terrible condition with which the Horde lived every day never left him.†   (source)
  • Suddenly a full third of the cliff slipped off the face and thundered down onto the screaming Horde.†   (source)
  • And Chelise couldn't expect to be princess of the Horde while living with the Circle.†   (source)
  • He's in the basement of the library three miles east of the Horde city.†   (source)
  • You really think the Horde would try something like that?†   (source)
  • She had not been surprised to realize that her anger was directed at the disease, not the Horde.†   (source)
  • He reined tight at the center of the line that he'd drawn and faced the Horde.†   (source)
  • The Horde was momentarily stunned by the sight of their old general, Martyn, staring them down.†   (source)
  • It was said that the Horde cared less for the lives of their men than the of their horses.†   (source)
  • This, along with the smooth texture of the morst, was new for the Horde.†   (source)
  • She ran down the dune toward the Horde camp.†   (source)
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