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  • After that it was only a question of tearing out a few stones, prying apart a few boards, chiseling out some mortar, bending the bars of a metal grate enough to squeeze through (that's how I broke my arm), then incapacitating the guards and using their keys to unlock my shackles.†   (source)
  • Not fatal, but it's definitely incapacitating.†   (source)
  • Cain had incapacitated Verin while he summoned the creature; it liked its blood hot.†   (source)
  • Ten yards away, Cantos tightens his grip on his sword, ready to incapacitate Samson and end this.†   (source)
  • And for a long time it's been clear that if you have two people operating the airplane cooperatively, you will have a safer operation than if you have a single pilot flying the plane and another person who is simply there to take over if the pilot is incapacitated.†   (source)
  • With Jake incapacitated, I'm senior camper.†   (source)
  • What she wanted to do was incapacitate this insolent pup with her elbow and use his miserable hide for leverage.†   (source)
  • You mean your cybrid was incapacitated while the virus destroyed you?†   (source)
  • I commanded the voice before terror could incapacitate me.†   (source)
  • Dedication Day was only a month away, and Harry Codman was again ill, incapacitated by the same stomach problem that had struck him during the summer.†   (source)
  • Or an incapacitating headache.†   (source)
  • Within minutes he was stiffening up, and by the time I arrived home from work that night, Marley was completely incapacitated, unable to move.†   (source)
  • And it incapacitated you?†   (source)
  • You didn't incapacitate her, did you?"†   (source)
  • Leave just enough sensation so they know where they are and what they are doing, but not so much that pain can incapacitate them.†   (source)
  • While it did not incapacitate the president, it did weaken him and, according to his cabinet, made him even more irascible.†   (source)
  • It's not until an hour or two after each and every one of the incapacitated folks has been cleaned, fed, and parked outside their doors that it's safe to poke your head out.†   (source)
  • This week, a Somali woman who worked at Luma's cleaning company had become all but incapacitated from back pain.†   (source)
  • Precise hit, otherwise you incapacitate instead of kill.†   (source)
  • The blow could incapacitate him.†   (source)
  • I was up sick all night, and the next day I was completely incapacitated.†   (source)
  • I don't know, but I can barely breathe," his equally incapacitated friend answered.†   (source)
  • If he was incapacitated or killed, he would do Kahlid no good.†   (source)
  • Figures … some bent over, walking slowly, awkwardly-not like you, Alex, incapacitated not by injuries but by age.†   (source)
  • They had grown up nearly as twins-Adam helping his slightly incapacitated sister; April as foil for his games and test subject for his inventions.†   (source)
  • He may be incapacitated for weeks.†   (source)
  • But now, with Covey incapacitated, Baldwin was running out of people.†   (source)
  • It was badly injured but not incapacitated, for it remained healthy enough to flee and had mustered the strength to operate whatever mechanism closed the door.†   (source)
  • That we are again out of certain anesthetics and painkillers, which I believe you are offering to the colonel too frequently, perhaps even with the intent to incapacitate him.†   (source)
  • Their father was permanently incapacitated, and would need care.†   (source)
  • His injuries were severe but didn't incapacitate him.†   (source)
  • My jangled nerves together with the sight of these incapacitated angels and the smell of faulty combustion leaking up from the engine—all merged into a phantasm of aching anxiety.†   (source)
  • It fired the Irish romanticism within me, as did Mr. Stone's accounts of the hurricane of '59 that crushed boats and docks like playthings, that uprooted oak trees as tall as towers, that incapacitated a town thirty miles from the island and made it a national disaster area.†   (source)
  • Of course," she said then, "if Mr. Shortley got incapacitated, I would have to use Mr. Guizac in the dairy all the time and I would have to pay him more.†   (source)
  • Second, if Kohler's episode ran its usual course, he was probably still incapacitated.†   (source)
  • I try to jerk away but I'm still too incapacitated.†   (source)
  • Gazing down at his incapacitated prisoner, the Hassassin visualized what lay ahead.†   (source)
  • I was trying to remember how to incapacitate an attacker — you know, self-defense.†   (source)
  • But thinking that he's being tortured specifically to incapacitate me is unendurable.†   (source)
  • The venom doesn't kill — it's merely incapacitating.†   (source)
  • If we're incapacitated, you may be the only one who can.†   (source)
  • (which, by the way, work wonders to incapacitate an enemy).†   (source)
  • "I thought you major gods were incapacitated," she managed.†   (source)
  • Hooks, needles and knives were at once means of livelihood as well as instruments of incapacitation.†   (source)
  • My instincts recoiled against seeing an immortal incapacitated that way; it was profoundly wrong.†   (source)
  • Most are already incapacitated, and their confusion will only grow worse.†   (source)
  • Melanie was incapacitated with fear, unable to think in coherent words.†   (source)
  • It tore through Eragon with a savage strength, seeking to incapacitate him.†   (source)
  • His strength decreased commensurately, but not enough to incapacitate him.†   (source)
  • Saphira agreed, and her grief and anxiety, combined with his, nearly incapacitated him.†   (source)
  • Is it unusual for someone to be mated to what incapacitates him?†   (source)
  • Even if they managed to escape, how could they defeat the giants if the gods were all incapacitated?†   (source)
  • Then I would be incapacitated, or Zeus would strike me down.†   (source)
  • If we're incapacitated, you may be the only one who can."†   (source)
  • And Alec can incapacitate us all at the same time?†   (source)
  • They wanted to think that he was incapacitated, injured, unable to make it to the phone.†   (source)
  • If that black smoke could incapacitate Leo so quickly, what chance did she have?†   (source)
  • If by some miracle you incapacitate me, only then will she be able to set me on fire.†   (source)
  • Piper, can you keep our friend musically incapacitated?†   (source)
  • "They usually incapacitate those on trial so they can't escape."†   (source)
  • I fear he is quite incapacitated now, but he left me in charge.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, if I stepped off this island, I would become incapacitated with pain.†   (source)
  • So Beidleman assembled those who were ambulatory, and then he, Schoening, Gammelgaard, Groom, and the two Sherpas stumbled off into the storm to get help, leaving behind the four incapacitated clients with Tim Madsen.†   (source)
  • Either because the prep team's incapacitated or I'm too on edge, Plutarch releases me from Mockingjay duties for the rest of the day.†   (source)
  • Chuldurn and Arita-Sherpas on Hall's team who hadn't accompanied the summit party and were waiting in reserve at Camp Four specifically for such an emergency-had been incapacitated with carbon monoxide poisoning from cooking in a poorly ventilated tent; Chuldurn was actually 85 vomiting blood.†   (source)
  • He incapacitates them one at a time, trapping Oliver in a swirl of fire while trading blows with Cyrine.†   (source)
  • This theory has a serious flaw, however: In order for McCandless to have been incapacitated by potato seeds, he would have had to eat many, many pounds of them; and given the light weight of his pack when Gallien dropped him off, it is extremely unlikely that he carried more than a few grams of potato seeds, if he carried any at all.†   (source)
  • The report detailed bad morale, numerous procedural violations, and the alarming conclusion that training standards for the 747 "classic" were so poor that "there is some concern as to whether First Officers on the Classic fleet could land the aircraft if the Captain became totally incapacitated."†   (source)
  • Shortly thereafter, two Sherpas from the Mountain Madness team-Tashi Tshering and Ngawang Sya Kya (a small, trim man, graysing at the temples, who is Lopsang' father)-and one Sherpa from the Taiwanese team headed up to bring down Scott Fischer and Makalu Gau Twelve hundred feet above the South Col the trio of Sherpas found the incapacitated climbers on the ledge where Lopsang had left them.†   (source)
  • Five miles of treacherous roots and loose stones, trying to twist my ankles or otherwise incapacitate me.†   (source)
  • Just words, but they ripped the hole wide open, and I stomped on the brake, knowing I should not drive while this incapacitated.†   (source)
  • Incapacitate him, but let him live, let him function later"… My creation, your impostor, would never do that.†   (source)
  • Dionysus was incapacitated yesterday.†   (source)
  • The gods are incapacitated, yes?†   (source)
  • The pain nearly incapacitated him, but he forced himself to roll away from the man, trying to put some distance between them.†   (source)
  • And we understand that the surviving parent of these children is herself severely mentally incapacitated.†   (source)
  • "So, did you miss me?" he repeated as he came toward her with the powerful, incapacitating Tensor in hand.†   (source)
  • … Still, he considered, he was far less incapacitated than he might have been-for a man of his age.†   (source)
  • Together they staggered from the room, leaving BoneMan incapacitated on the wall, watching them with desire.†   (source)
  • Once we reach Teirm, though, I suggest that we either steal the barges using the skills we learn during the trip or incapacitate Clovis and his men until we can escape through other means.†   (source)
  • No, but like the Fanghur, they often use the power of their minds to incapacitate their prey, which more than one dragon has discovered to their dismay.†   (source)
  • Eragon followed the fray with breathless anticipation, awed by the ants' bravery and how they continued to fight in spite of injuries that would incapacitate a human.†   (source)
  • As for my seizures, I have attached certain wards to the stone in Naegling that will protect me from harm if I become incapacitated upon the battlefield.†   (source)
  • Either injury ought to have incapacitated the soldiers, but as the Urgal bulled past them, the two men picked themselves off the stone as if nothing had happened and proceeded to stab the Urgal in the back.†   (source)
  • "That would make him only equally as dangerous as Jane," Edward went on in the same detached voice, "in that they both can incapacitate you, make you into a helpless target.†   (source)
  • Glaedr had excluded Oromis from his mind for the duration of the fight, but their bond ran deeper than conscious thought, so he felt it when Oromis stiffened, incapacitated by the searing pain of his bone-blight-nerve-rot.†   (source)
  • If I continue to accrue loyalties and allegiances at this pace, I'll be incapacitated before long-unable to do anything without breaking some oath!†   (source)
  • Perhaps she knew the gods were too incapacitated to pay attention to Ogygia, and so the island's magic was broken.†   (source)
  • Their greatest weapon is their evil breath, which fogs the minds of humans-incapacitating many-though it is less potent on dwarves, and elves are immune altogether.†   (source)
  • If Gaea was that powerful, and she had an army of giants at her side, Percy didn't see how seven demigods could stop her, especially when most of the gods were incapacitated.†   (source)
  • As an only child, I was classically though not immoderately spoiled; one of the few chores demanded of me, on afternoons after school during the winter months, was that I hurry home and see to it that the fireplace was well fueled, since although my mother was not yet totally incapacitated, it was far beyond her strength to throw wood on a fire.†   (source)
  • The lot of Drs Fujii, Kanda, and Machii right after the explosion — and, as these three were typical, that of the majority of the physicians and surgeons of Hiroshima — with their offices and hospitals destroyed, their equipment scattered, their own bodies incapacitated in varying degrees, explained why so many citizens Who were hurt went untended and why so many Who might have lived died.†   (source)
  • His wounds did not seriously incapacitate him.†   (source)
  • Joan, your admirer, Gulden, has been incapacitated for the present.†   (source)
  • Tess Durbeyfield's experience was of this incapacitating kind.†   (source)
  • The extent of the calamity left Mr. Letterblair white and incapacitated.†   (source)
  • A slight injury had incapacitated him from seeking another meeting at present, the letter went on to say, and ended with a request which was virtually a command, that she call upon him at once.†   (source)
  • Glenn Kilbourne had returned from France early that fall, shell-shocked and gassed, and otherwise incapacitated for service in the army—a wreck of his former sterling self and in many unaccountable ways a stranger to her.†   (source)
  • It was as if he had naturally expected of Tom what he would do himself if he had not been partially incapacitated.†   (source)
  • Already the Comanches had suffered in this fight, as was manifested by the number of those incapacitated, and which had to be packed off.†   (source)
  • My father's melancholy state prevents our speaking to him on any subjects, which the weakness of his mind would incapacitate him from understanding, and I am perfectly convinced that at the present time, although, he knows that his granddaughter is going to be married, M. Noirtier has even forgotten the name of his intended grandson."†   (source)
  • The human race is interested in these experiments, though a few old women who are incapacitated for them, or who own their thirds in mills, may be alarmed.†   (source)
  • He is not ill—only incapacitated.†   (source)
  • On the succeeding morning I was laid up, and during three weeks I remained incapacitated for attending to my duties: a calamity never experienced prior to that period, and never, I am thankful to say, since.†   (source)
  • "Here they are in prison, and henceforth they will be incapacitated for doing any harm," he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!"†   (source)
  • It seems to be your opinion, that the very office of an antiquary, employed in grave, and, as the vulgar will sometimes allege, in toilsome and minute research, must be considered as incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort.†   (source)
  • And then she mentioned how often she had heard of Lady Southdown from that excellent man the Reverend Lawrence Grills, Minister of the chapel in May Fair, which she frequented; and how her views were very much changed by circumstances and misfortunes; and how she hoped that a past life spent in worldliness and error might not incapacitate her from more serious thought for the future.†   (source)
  • Or, if for any reason thought to be corporeally incapacitated for that, yet such an one would seem superlatively competent to cheer and howl on his underlings to the attack.†   (source)
  • I called on the king, but he made me wait in his hall, and conducted like a man incapacitated for hospitality.†   (source)
  • If, at the harvest season, the father of a family has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in the town, and if he is ill and incapacitated, the cure recommends him to the prayers of the congregation; and on Sunday, after the mass, all the inhabitants of the village—men, women, and children—go to the poor man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his grain to his granary.†   (source)
  • …seen myself shut up in a cage like a madman, I hope by the might of my arm, if heaven aid me and fortune thwart me not, to see myself king of some kingdom where I may be able to show the gratitude and generosity that dwell in my heart; for by my faith, senor, the poor man is incapacitated from showing the virtue of generosity to anyone, though he may possess it in the highest degree; and gratitude that consists of disposition only is a dead thing, just as faith without works is dead.†   (source)
  • If, to obviate this consequence, it should be resolved to extend the prohibition to the RAISING of armies in time of peace, the United States would then exhibit the most extraordinary spectacle which the world has yet seen, that of a nation incapacitated by its Constitution to prepare for defense, before it was actually invaded.†   (source)
  • …took, and almost came up with him in time to be present at the adventure of the cart of Death and finally encountered them in the grove, where all that the sagacious reader has been reading about took place; and had it not been for the extraordinary fancies of Don Quixote, and his conviction that the bachelor was not the bachelor, senor bachelor would have been incapacitated for ever from taking his degree of licentiate, all through not finding nests where he thought to find birds.†   (source)
  • Would this last expectation have any influence at all, when the probability was computed, that the person who was to afford that exemption might himself be involved in the consequences of the measure, and might be incapacitated by his agency in it from affording the desired impunity?†   (source)
  • An alien, therefore, legally incapacitated for certain rights in the latter, may, by previous residence only in the former, elude his incapacity; and thus the law of one State be preposterously rendered paramount to the law of another, within the jurisdiction of the other.†   (source)
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