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  • A skilled strategist like Sharmak could have blockaded us out here on this barren, stony point, and we'd have needed to kill a lot of guys to get out.†   (source)
  • During the Civil War, as Atlanta smoldered, Root's father had smuggled him to Liverpool, England, aboard a Confederate blockade-runner.†   (source)
  • Most of their own refineries had been destroyed during the fighting, so both nations had come to rely on imported oil, and routinely tried to blockade or damage any ships bringing oil to their enemy via the Straight of Hormuz.†   (source)
  • The blockade had been lifted, the SS trucks had driven away.†   (source)
  • But if we don't blockade the rivers from those boats, guarding the bridges and tunnels will be pointless.†   (source)
  • "Blockade," the president said, "an ugly word."†   (source)
  • The U. S. is putting up a naval blockade.†   (source)
  • The UN condemned the invasion, demanded a withdrawal, placed economic sanctions on Iraq, and formed a blockade.†   (source)
  • Blockades and carpet-bombing were quickly ruled out: Clearly, the malignant Japanese war machine would capitulate only to direct and cataclysmic force.†   (source)
  • "The trolls will almost certainly have blockaded the harbor," said Aven.†   (source)
  • The police had actually blockaded the street, and the crowd outside the hotel was growing quickly.†   (source)
  • …and men in vests and pleated pants; an uproar of workers drilling holes in the pavement, knocking down trees to make room for telephone poles, knocking down telephone poles to make room for buildings, knocking down buildings to plant trees; a blockade of itinerant vendors hawking the wonders of this grindstone, that toasted peanut, this little doll that dances by itself without a single wire or thread, look for yourself, run your hand over it; a whirlwind of garbage dumps, food stands,…†   (source)
  • The women—our mothers-in-law and the others—put up even greater blockades against us.†   (source)
  • Through the broken doorway was a fallen tower of trunks and dressers; a failed blockade.†   (source)
  • A moment later, a second officer arrived and escorted me past the blockade.†   (source)
  • While the Irgun engaged in terror—blowing up trains, attacking police stations, cutting communications lines—the Haganah continued smuggling Jews through the British naval blockade in defiance of the British Colonial Office, which had sealed Palestine off to further Jewish immigration.†   (source)
  • Mark Resner eyed her from where he stood by a large wall map, working with two detectives on plotting a network of blockades.†   (source)
  • Titled The Blockade, it was off to a rollicking start from the moment the curtain rose.†   (source)
  • I blockaded the door and locked us in the bathroom.†   (source)
  • That was before the blockade.†   (source)
  • Sounis's troops were still blockaded on Thegmis.†   (source)
  • Given this development and the events this evening, I want you to leave for Blys at once—before Prusias can blockade our shores.†   (source)
  • A list of all the Meereenese ships in the blockade, with their captains.†   (source)
  • Yet he does not lift the blockade.†   (source)
  • Sometimes she would blockade the door; he would bang and bang, unable to stop himself.†   (source)
  • Look at us here-we sat it out through the famine and the White blockade, we didn't flinch-so here we are, safe and sound.†   (source)
  • Lamar, in the company of other prominent military and civilian officers of the Confederacy, was on board a blockade runner making for Savannah harbor.†   (source)
  • The government of Nepal accused India of imposing an undeclared blockade of gasoline and other materials.
    blockade = action to keep people and goods from reaching a location
  • "He left for Boston before the blockade," the pastor said.†   (source)
  • When he is done, the door might as well be locked, so perfect is his blockade.†   (source)
  • "Maybe they want to blockade Norfolk," Reynolds suggested.†   (source)
  • Their ships are approaching our blockade.†   (source)
  • Attolia blockaded the island with her own navy and waited.†   (source)
  • When he took aim at me I pulled my head back in and blockaded the door.†   (source)
  • What with these Alfas, they might be trying to blockade our coast.†   (source)
  • The huge naval base where ships have been setting out, destroyers, cruisers, to form the blockade.†   (source)
  • I can see the pattern for a search and rescue, but why blockade our ports?†   (source)
  • They have subs all over the Atlantic, and it looks like they're trying to blockade our coast.†   (source)
  • It had quickly become obvious that they wouldn't be able to maintain over five hundred different blockades or fend off the massive influx of gunters.†   (source)
  • Six hundred heads turned slowly from side to side, looking at the blockade of teachers on either side of the gym.†   (source)
  • First you had to visit neighbours, listen to their troubles and complaints, and thus find out what was going on in the city today: were there raids, had they heard of any blockades, was Chlodna Street guarded?†   (source)
  • Then, on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 8, Philadelphia heard the muffled but unmistakable thunder of cannon from thirty miles down the Delaware, as two heavily armed British ships, the frigate Roebuck and sloop-of-war Liverpool, tried to run the river defenses, a blockade of armed gondolas.†   (source)
  • In it the Communist leader states calmly and unequivocally that the president's proposed naval blockade is "a pirate act."†   (source)
  • The elves, dwarves, and centaurs formed a blockade around the Dragonships and their injured comrades and kept the Wendigo in a thick cluster with a flurry of arrows.†   (source)
  • It was Knowlton at Bunker Hill who, with Colonel John Stark, had famously held the rail fence in the face of the oncoming British lines, and Knowlton who, during the siege of Boston, had led the night attack on Charlestown that so upset the British officer's production of the Burgoyne farce The Blockade at Faneuil Hall.†   (source)
  • We would need a pi' rate fleet … and even if we found one, the word has come back from Slaver's Bay that Meereen has been closed off by blockade."†   (source)
  • The third is a naval blockade of Cuban waters, preventing the Soviet ships carrying nuclear warheads from reaching the missiles.†   (source)
  • Our army would have to break the blockade at the bottom of the pass and cross the river and those hills to reach her.†   (source)
  • He responds less than three hours later, coolly stating that the blockade is necessary and placing all blame for the crisis on Khrushchev and the Soviets.†   (source)
  • On Wednesday they found out that our naval blockade was in effect and that fourteen Soviet ships were nearing the quarantine line.†   (source)
  • The ships were scheduled to be delivered in time to break the blockade of Thegmis and to support a land invasion before the arrival of the summer windstorms.†   (source)
  • Soviet ships have every right to enter Cuban waters and unload any cargo they like and that the American naval quarantine—a fancy way of saying "blockade," which is an act of war—is reprehensible.†   (source)
  • I would not have thought it of the officers in the blockade at the bridge by the Old Aracthus Gate, but if they were overwhelmed and there were no survivors, the Eddisians might have got through without warning.†   (source)
  • Now it suited the queen's purpose well, allowing her to be close to her army as it blockaded the pass to Eddis and to communicate with her ships as they moved in and out of the harbor at her orders.†   (source)
  • Somebody did that back in World War II, to put the grab on a German blockade runner right before we got into it.†   (source)
  • These Alfas and Victors appear to be racing for our coast, almost certainly with the intention of establishing an interdiction force—effectively a blockade of our Atlantic coast.†   (source)
  • Unrestricted German submarine warfare was enforcing a tight blockade by which the Kaiser sought to starve the British Isles into submission; and Secretary of State Lansing had been politely informed that every American ship encountered in the war zone would be torpedoed.†   (source)
  • They were nothing, compared to the blockade I can impose.†   (source)
  • Similarly, the entrance of Italy into the war increases the power of our long-distance blockade.†   (source)
  • Was it my fault that the blockade got too tight?†   (source)
  • We could not enforce the decisive blockade or interruption which is possible from surface vessels.†   (source)
  • Even the blockade had added to Atlanta's prestige.†   (source)
  • And I'm sure I'll clean up a million on the blockade.†   (source)
  • No'm, dem air ain' sto's, dey's blockade awfisses.†   (source)
  • "He seemed a perfect gentleman and when you think how brave he's been, running the blockade—"†   (source)
  • But of course, he made his money out of the blockade—†   (source)
  • Law, Miss Scarlett, doan you know whut blockade awfisses is?†   (source)
  • That day Rhett had met an ex-blockade runner and they had had much to say to each other.†   (source)
  • I wish to goodness that blockade runner—what's his name?†   (source)
  • I give myself about six months more of blockading and then I'm through.†   (source)
  • Blockading is a business with me and I'm making money out of it.†   (source)
  • The Enemy, true to His barbarous methods of warfare, allows us to see the short misery of His favourites only to tantalise and torment us--to mock the incessant hunger which, during this present phase of the great conflict, His blockade is admittedly imposing.†   (source)
  • Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza and Conscription?†   (source)
  • …be a second lieutenant or even a private—provided of course that his men would have the courage to demote him—yet he not only ordered the stones and managed to pay for them, but stranger still he managed to get them past a seacoast so closely blockaded that the incoming runners refused any cargo except ammunition " It seemed to Quentin that he could actually see them: the ragged and starving troops without shoes, the gaunt powder-blackened faces looking backward over tattered…†   (source)
  • It in no way diminishes, but on the contrary definitely increases, the power of our long-distance blockade.†   (source)
  • The Yankee gunboats had tightened the mesh at the ports and very few ships were now able to slip past the blockade.†   (source)
  • You remember when the blockade tightened, I couldn't get a boat out of any Confederate port or into one, so there the money stayed in England.†   (source)
  • Rhett had brought her that linen and lace from Nassau on the last boat he slipped through the blockade and she had worked a week to make the garment.†   (source)
  • If Jeff Davis had commandeered all the cotton and gotten it to England before the blockade tightened—†   (source)
  • There came to her, from the recesses of her mind, words Rhett had spoken in the early years of the war about the money he made in the blockade.†   (source)
  • Why, you—you must be the famous Captain Butler we've been hearing so much about—the blockade runner.†   (source)
  • It was a beautiful piece of material, thick and warm and with a dull sheen to it, undoubtedly blockade goods and undoubtedly very expensive.†   (source)
  • They were as isolated from the world of fashion as shipwrecked mariners, for few books of fashion came through the blockade.†   (source)
  • It came from Confederate cotton which I managed to run through the blockade and sell in Liverpool at sky-high prices.†   (source)
  • We are fighting the Yankees' new rifles with Revolutionary War muskets, and soon the blockade will be too tight for even medical supplies to slip in.†   (source)
  • There are enough stupid patriots who are risking every cent they have in the blockade and who are going to come out of this war paupers.†   (source)
  • She knew that he was acting the part of the dashing and patriotic blockade runner simply because it amused him.†   (source)
  • Laces and silks and braid and ribbons, all blockade run, all the more precious and more proudly worn because of it, finery flaunted with an added pride as an extra affront to the Yankees.†   (source)
  • When well-meaning people complimented him on his bravery in running the blockade, he blandly replied that he was always frightened when in danger, as frightened as were the brave boys at the front.†   (source)
  • It was said that he was at the head of a combine worth more than a million dollars, with Wilmington as its headquarters for the purpose of buying blockade goods on the docks.†   (source)
  • Already the foundries were beginning to feel the lack of iron, for little or none came through the blockade, and the mines in Alabama were standing almost idle while the miners were at the front.†   (source)
  • Besides, the dashing blockade runners were bringing in these very things under the Yankees' disgruntled noses, and that made the possession of them many times more thrilling.†   (source)
  • As for instance, right after Fort Sumter fell and before the blockade was established, I bought up several thousand bales of cotton at dirt-cheap prices and ran them to England.†   (source)
  • Conditions in Wilmington, the chief blockade port, now that Charleston's port was practically sealed by the Yankee gunboats, had reached the proportions of an open scandal.†   (source)
  • And she could see people and many lights and hear music and view for herself the lovely laces and frocks and frills that the famous Captain Butler had run through the blockade on his last trip.†   (source)
  • Everyone knew now that the fate of the Confederacy rested as much upon the skill of the blockade boats in eluding the Yankee fleet as it did upon the soldiers at the front.†   (source)
  • We must have more money to buy medical supplies from England, and we have with us tonight the intrepid captain who has so successfully run the blockade for a year and who will run it again to bring us the drugs we need.†   (source)
  • It was showered and flounced with cream-colored Chantilly lace that had come from Charleston on the last blockader, and Maybelle was flaunting it as saucily as if she and not the famous Captain Butler had run the blockade.†   (source)
  • There were parties and balls and bazaars every week and war weddings without number, with the grooms on furlough in bright gray and gold braid and the brides in blockade-run finery, aisles of crossed swords, toasts drunk in blockaded champagne and tearful farewells.†   (source)
  • The Yankees thought President Davis had it when he left Richmond but when they captured the poor man he had hardly a cent. There just wasn't any money m the treasury when the war was over and everybody thinks some of the blockade runners got it and are keeping quiet about it.†   (source)
  • Well, when the blockade got too tight, he couldn't bring in the guns and he couldn't have spent one one-hundredth of the cotton money on them anyway, so there were simply millions of dollars in English banks put there by Captain Butler and other blockaders, waiting till the blockade loosened.†   (source)
  • With the blockade closing tighter and tighter, there was no way to get the South's money crop to its market in England, no way to bring in the necessaries which cotton money had brought in years gone by.†   (source)
  • There were strange faces on the streets of Atlanta now, and citizens who a year ago would have pricked up their ears at the sound of even a Western accent paid no heed to the foreign tongues of Europeans who had run the blockade to build machines and turn out Confederate munitions.†   (source)
  • But now the Confederate ports were stoppered with Yankee gunboats, only a trickle of blockade-run goods was slipping in from Europe, and the South was desperately trying to manufacture her own war materials.†   (source)
  • In Atlanta, there were machine factories tediously turning out machinery to manufacture war materials—tediously, because there were few machines in the South from which they could model and nearly every wheel and cog had to be made from drawings that came through the blockade from England.†   (source)
  • "There are many brave and patriotic men in the blockade arm of the Confederacy's naval service," ran the last of the doctor's letter, "unselfish men who are risking their lives and all their wealth that the Confederacy may survive.†   (source)
  • Sometimes when Rhett was alone with them and Scarlett in the next room, she heard laughter and caught fragments of conversation that meant nothing to her, scraps of words, puzzling names—Cuba and Nassau in the blockade days, the gold rush and claim jumping, gun running and filibustering, Nicaragua and William Walker and how he died against a wall at Truxillo.†   (source)
  • Blockade gold.†   (source)
  • And all during the war when I was blockading out of Charleston, Mother had to lie and slip off to see me.†   (source)
  • When praised for his services to the Confederacy, he unfailingly replied that blockading was a business with him.†   (source)
  • He had sold his boats when blockading grew too hazardous, and he was now openly engaged in food speculation.†   (source)
  • At the onset of the war, he had emerged from obscurity with enough money to buy a small swift boat and now, when blockaded goods realized two thousand per cent on each cargo, he owned four boats.†   (source)
  • They landed their cargoes at Wilmington or Charleston, where they were met by swarms of merchants and speculators from all over the South who assembled to buy blockaded goods at auction.†   (source)
  • Moreover, he usually brought her some little gift from Nassau which he assured her he had purchased especially for her and blockaded in at risk of his life— papers of pins and needles, buttons, spools of silk thread and hairpins.†   (source)
  • There were parties and balls and bazaars every week and war weddings without number, with the grooms on furlough in bright gray and gold braid and the brides in blockade-run finery, aisles of crossed swords, toasts drunk in blockaded champagne and tearful farewells.†   (source)
  • There was never any knowing when he would remark affably, over a punch cup: "Ralph, if I'd had any sense I'd have made my money selling gold-mine stocks to widows and orphans, like you, instead of blockading.†   (source)
  • If he could make as much money out of government contracts, he would say, picking out with his eyes those who had government contracts, then he would certainly abandon the hazards of blockading and take to selling shoddy cloth, sanded sugar, spoiled flour and rotten leather to the Confederacy.†   (source)
  • For some months, he was the most popular and romantic figure the town knew, despite his previous reputation, despite the faint rumors that he was engaged not only in blockading but in speculating on foodstuffs, too.†   (source)
  • To attempt to run the blockade of that trail by day would be fatal.†   (source)
  • All day and all night it snowed, and the city began to suffer from a general blockade of traffic.†   (source)
  • Promise me to raise the blockade—to set Madame de Cintre at liberty—and I will retire instantly.†   (source)
  • He told of their alarm and distress, of the horrors families go through under such circumstances, of the ineffectual efforts they had made in America, finally of the faith in a change of scene that had made him run the submarine blockade and bring his daughter to Switzerland.†   (source)
  • It did not appear to be the duty of these two men to know what was occurring at the center of the bridge; they merely blockaded the two ends of the foot planking that traversed it.†   (source)
  • To cut off the escape of those who might survive, and to prevent more of them coming up, Dain Waris was ordered by Doramin to take an armed party of Bugis down the river to a certain spot ten miles below Patusan, and there form a camp on the shore and blockade the stream with the canoes.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your interests were the same as his.†   (source)
  • They wanted to be taken to a Spanish port, if not to Cadiz, then to the Bay of Vigo, located on Spain's northwest coast and not blockaded.†   (source)
  • As for himself, he had never seen the blockade so complete; he heard his stomach sounding a parley, and he considered it very much out of place that evil destiny should capture his philosophy by famine.†   (source)
  • I could not venture to attack with insufficient force a monstrous and formidable serpent concealed in dense thickets amidst dangerous swamps; yet it was dreadful to live in a state of blockade, cut off from all the important duties in which we were engaged, and shut up with our animals in the unnatural light of the cave, enduring constant anxiety and perturbation.†   (source)
  • No success rewarded this little blockade, however, neither appearance nor sound denoting the passage of the canoe.†   (source)
  • For similar reasons I made no allusion to the skirmishing plates upon the floor; or to the disreputable appearance of the castors, which were all at sixes and sevens, and looked drunk; or to the further blockade of Traddles by wandering vegetable dishes and jugs.†   (source)
  • Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair, and then sat down and reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph.†   (source)
  • The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the streets will be guarded, and you will not be able to get out.†   (source)
  • I have had letters from seamen who read it as they were lying in our blockade squadrons off the mouths of Southern harbors.†   (source)
  • The South and the West have no vessels, but they cannot refuse a willing subsidy to defray the expenses of the navy; for if the fleets of Europe were to blockade the ports of the South and the delta of the Mississippi, what would become of the rice of the Carolinas, the tobacco of Virginia, and the sugar and cotton which grow in the valley of the Mississippi?†   (source)
  • …SaintPierre-aux-Boeufs, and in the rear through the Rue du Parvis, driven to bay against Notre-Dame, which they still assailed and Quasimodo defended, at the same time besiegers and besieged, they were in the singular situation in which Comte Henri Harcourt, ~Taurinum obsessor idem et obsessus~, as his epitaph says, found himself later on, at the famous siege of Turin, in 1640, between Prince Thomas of Savoy, whom he was besieging, and the Marquis de Leganez, who was blockading him.†   (source)
  • The moral aspects of the military blockade as a weapon in times of peace had been bothering me.   (source)
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