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  • The Little Mermaid's name, Ariel, possessed powerful ties to the sacred feminine and, in the Book of Isaiah, was synonymous with "the Holy City besieged.†   (source)
  • Everybody knew, for instance, that Harry and Marietta were the only students to have witnessed the scene in Dumbledore's office and, as Marietta was now in the hospital wing, Harry found himself besieged with requests to give a first-hand account.†   (source)
  • Other days, Mariam was besieged with anger.†   (source)
  • Grant was besieged with requests for interviews, lectures, books.†   (source)
  • While his directive did succeed in reducing the sparrow population, he had neglected to consider that birds also eat bugs; suddenly, the nation was besieged by a plague of insects.†   (source)
  • In the back hall my father greeted Buckley and Nate with high cheers and calls for "Oxygen!" as he always did when we besieged him after a long day.†   (source)
  • Within weeks the end of the semester is upon them, and they are besieged by exams and papers and hundreds of pages of reading.†   (source)
  • She was watching him proudly from the far end of the salon, where a court of admirers had surrounded her, besieging her with questions about her part in the revolution.†   (source)
  • There is no other way to besiege Riverrun, yet still, that will be their undoing.†   (source)
  • He had a good deal to say about the perils of division at a time "when this, our house, our nation, is still besieged by the powers of darkness."†   (source)
  • A beleaguered sprite was sheltering behind her ticket desk, besieged by angry gremlins.†   (source)
  • Doubt besieged him.†   (source)
  • Adah the Poor Thing, hemiplegious egregious besiege us.†   (source)
  • The Consul turned away from the pit, looking at his former aide but now seeing, for the first time, the Governor-General of a besieged Hegemony world.†   (source)
  • The Football Fathers were besieged with demands from fans and the football team to do something.†   (source)
  • I inflicted a plague on the Greeks who besieged Troy.†   (source)
  • This way of life looked distinctly odd in the besieged city of Warsaw.†   (source)
  • In the days that followed, on the verge of madness, he wrote her countless desperate letters and besieged the maid to take them to her, but she obeyed her unequivocal instructions not to accept anything but the returned gifts.†   (source)
  • Byron himself could be both willful and passionate, and being also handsome, he was besieged by women of fashion.†   (source)
  • As for Ti Fifi's fear that parents would besiege Zanmi Lasante with demands that their sick children be flown to Boston, too, nothing like that occurred.†   (source)
  • I knew that Helen was besieged every day by countless aliens in Iran, each with a sad, desperate story.†   (source)
  • The doors had not always brought to mind the distrust and secrecy of a city long besieged.†   (source)
  • For the past few days, I had been pleasantly besieged by arriving dignitaries and world leaders who were coming to pay their respects before the inauguration.†   (source)
  • They besieged the local UNHCR office, demanding to know the whereabouts of men who had applied to the UN for safety.†   (source)
  • Smiling feebly, Mundin stood silent just when I needed him to bring in the cavalry and rescue my besieged story.†   (source)
  • She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotions—desire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love.†   (source)
  • Soon I was besieged by women bearing broken radios and broken fans and seeking repair for things in their cubicles—hooks for their clothing, loose conduits, busted shoe racks, all sorts of things.†   (source)
  • But they closed round at night, and I was besieged on the hill-top, in the old ring of Amon Sul.†   (source)
  • The topiaries that had once been pruned with aspirations toward the baroque finished in a hopeless, tortured state, besieged by snails and disease.†   (source)
  • How is it that Fenella and Tarquin spend most of their time in the middle of Perthshire, but the minute they set foot in London, they're besieged by long-lost friends?†   (source)
  • Supplying the besieged city by sea had become increasingly difficult because of winter storms and American privateers.†   (source)
  • Tina Coleman's coach delivered a card requesting a visit, and I fear I shall be much besieged with such inquiries.†   (source)
  • The enemies of God besiege us.†   (source)
  • The remaining women glared ever more balefully at Eugenides, drawing their ranks around their besieged queen.†   (source)
  • The Adamant Citadel is besieged!†   (source)
  • The Trench Rats were one of the battalions responsible for defending that territory and preventing the Enemy from besieging Old College.†   (source)
  • The newspapers did not mention the outbreaks of violence that had begun to burst across the country-but she watched them through the reports of train conductors about bullet-riddled cars, dismantled tracks, attacked trains, besieged stations, in.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Nightwing has scarcely put on her spectacles again when the girls besiege her, begging her to reconsider.†   (source)
  • I think I will forever see him with that smooth face, almost aglow, almost pubescent, despite my memory of those final days of his shortened career, when his true age seemed to besiege him all over and at once.†   (source)
  • The air was full with the smell of whiskey as the besieged 19th River Guard listened to the reassuring sound of rain pattering lightly against the roof, and they all were thinking of home.†   (source)
  • In 1863 when the Federal Army was besieging Vicksburg, Thomas Sims was one of the slaves who managed to reach the Federal forces.†   (source)
  • In the same manner that Grant attempted to besiege Petersburg by throwing a noose around the city, Stanton hopes to throw a giant rope around the Northeast, then slowly cinch the knot tighter until he squeezes out the killers.†   (source)
  • Besieged Caer-Dineval's fleet trolled the southernmost waters of Lac Dinneshere, taking advantage of the areas left open when the people of Easthaven fled to Bryn Shander.†   (source)
  • For the next seventy-two hours, Nabil Awad's mobile phone was besieged with expressions of concern.†   (source)
  • Appalachee troops also raided Cornwallis's supply lines so often that after less than a month it became quite clear that Cornwallis was the besieged, not the besieger.†   (source)
  • The Mayor, Alexander Getty, who was also chairman of the town council, was barricaded in his house, besieged by imaginary and irrational fears that the Russians had invaded and were intent on his capture, torture, and the rape of his wife and daughter.†   (source)
  • One of the dreams besieged me, nearly ruined me.†   (source)
  • Cunha and I made certain that our casualties were actually dead, then consolidated the two sections into one of four squads and down we went — and found the Bugs that had our platoon sergeant besieged.†   (source)
  • But like this, Siddhartha can wait calmly, he knows no impatience, he knows no emergency, for a long time he can allow hunger to besiege him and can laugh about it.†   (source)
  • Whenever the train stopped, the noise of the besieging crowds outside was added to this turmoil.†   (source)
  • The Japanese team, experts on the extra sensory Node, center of TP perceptivity, insisted that the Node was in curcuit with the Optic Nerve (it wasn't within two millimeters of same) and besieged Dr. Jordan with polite hissings and specious proofs.†   (source)
  • For three hours, Watanabe besieged Bush, kicking him and hacking off his hair with his sword.†   (source)
  • Within twenty-four standard hours of their reentry to the Web, they were besieged.†   (source)
  • This is his home, this besieged castle; he is its werewolf.†   (source)
  • Saphira swiftly flew to the besieged dwarves, swooping low over Hrothgar.†   (source)
  • An enemy army besieged the city, and the people prayed for help.†   (source)
  • Even now, with Astapor besieged, I stay my hand.†   (source)
  • Howard and Smith were besieged with telegrams and calls from jockeys all over the country.†   (source)
  • Riverrun is besieged by the Freys and my cousin Daven, our new Warden of the West.†   (source)
  • He felt glad for the company, and besieged by her questions.†   (source)
  • I am besieged by the clans with demands that I do one thing or another about Ajihad's successor.†   (source)
  • We are besieged, Your Grace, Ser Cortnay defies them, but ….†   (source)
  • And the whole while, they besieged each other's minds.†   (source)
  • Wheeling YaYa around, he saw that the trenches were besieged.†   (source)
  • He was besieged, straining against the enveloping mist, whose tendrils plucked at the Book of Thoth.†   (source)
  • For a fortnight, Vanderbilt besieged him with wires, calls, and requests for private meetings.†   (source)
  • 'It is over-late to send for aid when you are already besieged,' answered Beregond.†   (source)
  • So now at last the City was besieged, enclosed in a ring of foes.†   (source)
  • I should alert you also to the possibility that, once having involved yourself in her case, you will be besieged by a crowd of well-meaning but feeble-minded persons of both sexes, as well as clergymen, who have busied themselves on her behalf.†   (source)
  • For the rest of the day, Harry was besieged with requests from the other sixth years to describe the sensation of Apparition.†   (source)
  • I could not bring myself to leave the room, letting the other people in the block know I was here and having to enter into community life with them in our besieged flats.†   (source)
  • He not only believed it, he also discussed it several times with Transito Ariza during the two years of Fermina Daza's wedding trip, and he continued to believe it with a feeling of boundless freedom until one fateful Sunday when, with no warning and no presentiments, he saw her leaving High Mass on her husband's arm, besieged by the curiosity and flattery of her new world.†   (source)
  • It made a good tale: the suitors, lazy and cruel, besieging the faithful wife, threatening the loyal heir.†   (source)
  • At night Simon's lamp is besieged by moths, which flutter around him, the soft touch of their wings like the brushing of silken lips.†   (source)
  • Rather than have his family become permanent prisoners to the besieging reporters, Sol went on the offensive.†   (source)
  • Also I ought to warn Richard, at his office: As soon as the word got out, the corpse flies would besiege him.†   (source)
  • That signal would bring more and more wretched figures streaming up from all sides, and the good Samaritan would find himself besieged, hemmed in by ragged apparitions spraying him with tubercular saliva; by children covered with oozing sores who were pushed into his path, by gesticulating stumps of arms, blinded eyes, toothless, stinking open mouths, all begging for mercy at this, the last moment of their lives, as if their end could be delayed only by instant support.†   (source)
  • A stream of refugees trailed along the road to the north—people fleeing the soon-to-be-besieged city for Teirm or Uru'baen, where they might find at least temporary safety from the Varden's inexorable advance.†   (source)
  • Max sat at the head of the main table and managed polite conversation with Nix and Valya when they were not besieged by the children who had met the couple on previous visits.†   (source)
  • He'd captured Casterly Rock and put everyone to the sword, or he was besieging the Golden Tooth …. but something had happened, that much was certain.†   (source)
  • Corporal Endo had no such physical problems, save his acne, and so I began to consider the possibility that his expressions were of a besieged mind, one perhaps innately tenuous and fragile and now—under duress—grown sickly and ornate.†   (source)
  • To the women who were besieging him and coveting him he put the question as to who would pay the most.†   (source)
  • He exchanged meaningless pleasantries and strove to memorize the plethora of names and titles that besieged him and otherwise acted with perfect civility the role he was expected to play.†   (source)
  • Everything had happened in a rush: the realization that there were twice as many Endarkened as they had counted on, that they were besieged on two sides, Jace's plea to her to make a Portal.†   (source)
  • At Boston, Washington had benefited greatly from a steady supply of valuable intelligence coming out of the besieged town, while Howe had known little or nothing of Washington's strengths or intentions.†   (source)
  • Then sooner or later Rivendell will be besieged, and after a brief and bitter time it will be destroyed.†   (source)
  • The besieged inhabitants of Bryn Shander and Targos looked upon the incredible structure with a confused mixture of awe, appreciation, and terror.†   (source)
  • Whenever someone asked him about attacking Uru'baen, he hinted that he and Saphira would be among the battalion to besiege the northwestern section of the city wall.†   (source)
  • Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, besieged by pressures of all kinds, left his bed of a paralytic in order to persuade his former companion in arms.†   (source)
  • During the wars between Winterfell and the Vale, it was besieged by Osgood Arryn, the Old Falcon, and burned by his son, the one remembered as the Talon.†   (source)
  • West ran the river road, which followed the course of the Red Fork to Riverrun and Sansa's great-uncle, who was besieged but still alive.†   (source)
  • Besieged, plundered, captured and recaptured, Jerusalem had been ruled by Jebusites, Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and, of course, the Jews.†   (source)
  • Still, in the silence of the night, when the city lost its stage-set normality and operetta peace, she was besieged by the agonizing thoughts she had repressed during the day.†   (source)
  • Her supporters referred to her as a "memory militant," a woman who would stop at nothing to pressure France into protecting its besieged Jewish minority.†   (source)
  • Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunari—their minds besieged by the crazed dragons of Galbatorix's command—and without intending to, he drew from their stores of energy.†   (source)
  • Ned would surely have prevailed upon Robert to bring up his whole force, to encircle Stannis and besiege the besiegers.†   (source)
  • The decrepit lawyers dressed in black who during other times had besieged Colonel Aureliano Buendia and who now were controlled by the banana company dismissed those demands with decisions that seemed like acts of magic.†   (source)
  • The miseries of the troops still besieged at Boston, and of those Americans loyal to the King who, fearing for their lives, had abandoned everything to find refuge in the town, were also described in letters published in the London papers or in correspondence to friends and relatives in London.†   (source)
  • The boom across the river and the three great camps of the besieging army were just as his cousin had described.†   (source)
  • Riverrun stands besieged, Bracken and Blackwood are at open war, and outlaws roam freely on both sides of the Trident, stealing and killing as they will.†   (source)
  • …the business of the pliers and the oilcan had awakened in him the tardy yearning of so many useful trades that he might have followed in his life and did not; but neither case was true, because the temptation of a sedentary domesticity that was besieging him was not the result of any rediscovery or moral lesion. it came from much farther off, unearthed by the rain's pitchfork from the days when in Melquiades' room he would read the prodigious fables about flying carpets and whales that…†   (source)
  • I do not mean to be besieged here.†   (source)
  • Aureliano bore Amaranta Ursula's spite patiently and made an effort to show her that he could be as good a husband in adversity as in prosperity, and the daily needs that besieged them when Gaston's last money ran out created a bond of solidarity between them that was not as dazzling and heady as passion, but that let them make love as much and be as happy as during their uproarious and salacious days.†   (source)
  • You are besieged by land and sea.†   (source)
  • As if such an altruistic sentiment could have the vaguest effect on this caricature of a Nazi, who was already being besieged by knocks at the door and an irruptive jangle of the telephone.†   (source)
  • The besiegers gave him a raucous welcome as soon as he reached the camp.†   (source)
  • Mauhur had apparently arrived and was attacking the besiegers.†   (source)
  • Actually more than 500 Swiss guards had been slaughtered, and at least 400 of the besiegers.†   (source)
  • To cut off all the approaches, a besieger must needs place one camp north of the Tumblestone, one south of the Red Fork, and a third between the rivers, west of the moat.†   (source)
  • Appalachee troops also raided Cornwallis's supply lines so often that after less than a month it became quite clear that Cornwallis was the besieged, not the besieger.†   (source)
  • Back and forth he rode beneath the walls of multicolored bricks, challenging the besiegers to send a champion forth to meet him in single combat.†   (source)
  • By the ruddy light of the fires, Eragon saw a sea of flashing spearpoints and gleaming helmets surging against the base of the large, well-fortified city, the walls of which teemed with tiny figures busy firing arrows at the army below, pouring cauldrons of boiling oil between the merlons of the parapet, cutting ropes thrown over the walls, and pushing away the rickety wooden ladders the besiegers kept leaning against the ramparts.†   (source)
  • The pink-and-white hero taunted the besiegers for an hour, mocking their manhood, mothers, wives, and gods.†   (source)
  • The besiegers' cheers seemed few and thin by comparison; her Unsullied stood in silent ranks, watching with stone faces.†   (source)
  • Most of the soldiers in the city would be stationed close to the outer wall to repel besiegers, and Roran had no desire to face them in open battle.†   (source)
  • A Lannister army already invested the castle, and an even larger force of Freys; the last bird they'd received suggested that the besiegers were having difficulty keeping themselves fed.†   (source)
  • At last report, the Baratheon fleet still lay off Storm's End, where Ser Cortnay Penrose continued to defy the besiegers in dead Renly's name.†   (source)
  • Ned would surely have prevailed upon Robert to bring up his whole force, to encircle Stannis and besiege the besiegers.†   (source)
  • At the end of the sixth hour, the besieged surrendered—the man came out.†   (source)
  • True, the Yankees under Grant had been besieging Vicksburg since the middle of May.†   (source)
  • ' "Since such is your answer," he called in return, "I declare the Mountain besieged.†   (source)
  • He is besieging the Queen in the Tower of London, and using cannon.†   (source)
  • They are besieging her in the Tower of London now, and Mordred is using guns.†   (source)
  • But they do tell a story about it: that it was pledged to St. Joseph in the wars with the Moors, and that the people of some besieged city brought all their plate and silver and gold ornaments and threw them in with the baser metals.†   (source)
  • During the first part of the day on which the prohibition to leave the town came into force the Prefect's office was besieged by a crowd of applicants advancing pleas of equal cogency but equally impossible to take into consideration.†   (source)
  • …he was now involved in (obviously at least twenty years old now, crouching behind a window in the dark and firing the muskets through it which someone else loaded and handed to him) came to occur, getting himself and Grandfather both into that besieged Haitian room as simply as he got himself to the West Indies by saying that he decided to go to the West Indies and so he went there; this anecdote no deliberate continuation of the other one but merely called to his mind by the picture…†   (source)
  • The social atmosphere is that of a besieged city, where the possession of a lump of horseflesh makes the difference between wealth and poverty.†   (source)
  • The Viceroy, the Archbishop, and the few men at court who had been her sincerest admirers besieged her door still with messages and gifts; the messages were ignored and the gifts were returned without comment.†   (source)
  • This hole commanded the outer doors of the tower, of which there were two, and people could drop stones through it when they were besieged.†   (source)
  • There were sentries with bayonets downstairs outside the portecochere at Gaylord's and tonight it would be the pleasantest and most comfortable place in all of besieged Madrid.†   (source)
  • The thought of the countryside was like the thought of a continent beyond an ocean that could not be crossed; it gave him a sense of being locked in a besieged fortress and he liked that—not the fact, but the feeling.†   (source)
  • He had by now had more than enough of the Mountain, and being besieged inside it was not at all to his taste.†   (source)
  • But now with the ports closed and many of the port cities captured or besieged, the South's salvation depended upon itself.†   (source)
  • He had not liked Gaylord's, the hotel in Madrid the Russians had taken over when he first went there because it seemed too luxurious and the food was too good for a besieged city and the talk too cynical for a war.†   (source)
  • The ladies always felt a little odd when they besieged him with questions about styles, but they did it nevertheless.†   (source)
  • It became obvious that Glatisant intended to besiege the castle until her mate had been produced, and, in these circumstances, the Old Ones who had brought their eggs to market refused to leave the gate without an escort.†   (source)
  • There had been roasting heretics on the one hand—forty-five Templars had been burned in one day—and the heads of captives being thrown into besieged castles from catapults on the other.†   (source)
  • "The Queen besieged," he said.†   (source)
  • I have got to be besieged in this hole like a coward, when nobody wants to fight except Gawaine, and then they come outside with their fanfares and sing: Traitor knight Come out to fight Yah!†   (source)
  • You see, she has us besieged.†   (source)
  • When George Willard went to work for the Winesburg Eagle he was besieged by Joe Welling.†   (source)
  • She always besieged the bench with voluble excuses, explanations, apologies and prayers.†   (source)
  • Also, it seemed to him that the fort was besieged by wolves.†   (source)
  • CARBON: It is disgraceful that we should starve while we're besieging!†   (source)
  • CYRANO: It were well done if he should be besieged in his turn.†   (source)
  • Royalty was gone; had been besieged in its Palace and "suspended," when the last tidings came over.†   (source)
  • Mr. Jos was away, being besieged by an Irish widow at Cheltenham.†   (source)
  • Again she was besieged by eager questioners, and again she swam in sunset seas of glory.†   (source)
  • Henry IV, when besieging Paris, had loaves and provisions thrown over the walls.†   (source)
  • The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between besiegers and besieged.†   (source)
  • We expected to be besieged in the palace some time or other, but —however, go on.†   (source)
  • The besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon.†   (source)
  • Truths which he did not wish to recognize were besieging him, inexorably.†   (source)
  • He besieged McGurk and the wealthy Mr. Minnigen who was Tubbs's new patron, and in and out of season he besieged Gottlieb.†   (source)
  • Nelaton, the Tuileries surgeon, demanded a safe conduct, in the name of science, into the besieged city in order to attend my wounds.†   (source)
  • My head was light perhaps; but I began to love the prospect, I began to glory in the thought of such a death, alone in the desert, with the wild eagles besieging my last moments.†   (source)
  • Early next morning Tom and Stronghurl were besieged by prospective buffalo-hunters, intensely eager to hear news from the buffalo fields.†   (source)
  • All day long the gates of the packing houses were besieged by starving and penniless men; they came, literally, by the thousands every single morning, fighting with each other for a chance for life.†   (source)
  • For hours through changing shadows and starlight Joan lay awake, while a thousand thoughts besieged her, all centering round that vital and compelling one of Jim Cleve.†   (source)
  • He was out of spirits and slightly out of temper, and a haunting horror of doing the same thing every day at the same hour besieged his brain.†   (source)
  • It was in the dining room, the same room where they had so often sat across the table from one another; in the middle of the room Hans Lorenz Castorp now lay in a silver-trimmed coffin, atop a bier surrounded and besieged with wreaths.†   (source)
  • It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions.†   (source)
  • Its murmur besieged his ears like the murmur of some multitude in sleep; its subtle streams penetrated his being.†   (source)
  • This moan and rush of wind was no dream—this presence of his in a night-enshrouded and sand-besieged house of the lonely desert was reality—this adventure was not one of fancy.†   (source)
  • In my efforts to get money I have often been surprised at the patience and deep interest of the ministers, who are besieged on every hand and at all hours of the day for help.†   (source)
  • So one and all they besieged Dale with their selfish needs, all unconscious of the flattering nature of these overtures.†   (source)
  • We are to besiege Arras.†   (source)
  • These men started at dawn, but before that time Kassim had managed to open communications with the besieged Brown.†   (source)
  • He was accompanied by nearly all the invited guests, and besides this, the house was almost besieged by excited bands of people, who insisted upon being allowed to enter the verandah.†   (source)
  • Slowly the pitch of the fight augmented, until it was raging with a reckless fury on part of the Comanches, and a desperate resistance on that of the besieged.†   (source)
  • I will besiege this school teacher.†   (source)
  • When she next returned to him, besieged by three capering medics, he muttered to her, "Oh, it doesn't MATTER about ME!†   (source)
  • These, and a thousand other fears, some groundless, but many real and present, besieged Joan and left her little peace.†   (source)
  • ROXANE: Ah—to besiege?†   (source)
  • To think that while we are besieging, we should ourselves be caught in a trap and besieged by the Cardinal Infante of Spain.†   (source)
  • To think that while we are besieging, we should ourselves be caught in a trap and besieged by the Cardinal Infante of Spain.†   (source)
  • Just after dark that day, when one watch had retired below, a clamor was heard in the forecastle; and the two trembling traitors running up, besieged the cabin door, saying they durst not consort with the crew.†   (source)
  • We are regularly besieged.†   (source)
  • At the denunciating sound, the monks would be rendered aware that temptation was besieging a brother, and all the community would go to prayers.†   (source)
  • The staircase has two stories; the English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had cut off the lower steps.†   (source)
  • The Doctor thought it very vulgar to be precipitate in accusing people of mercenary motives, inasmuch as his door had as yet not been in the least besieged by fortune-hunters; and, lastly, he was very curious to see whether Catherine might really be loved for her moral worth.†   (source)
  • Ever since I was condemned, my confessor has besieged me; he threatened and menaced, until I almost began to think that I was the monster that he said I was.†   (source)
  • The long-legged veteran, who had been besieging the fire-iron, as before related, now took down his cumbrous length, and rearing aloft his tall form, walked up to the advertisement and very deliberately spit a full discharge of tobacco-juice on it.†   (source)
  • We found the whole family in a state of the greatest excitement, and I felt it necessary to calm them down as much as possible, for neither could I answer the questions with which I was besieged, nor could I conceal the fact that the visit of the vessel might not prove so advantageous as they expected.†   (source)
  • It was the well-known consequence of this discord that Richard's repeated victories had been rendered fruitless, his romantic attempts to besiege Jerusalem disappointed, and the fruit of all the glory which he had acquired had dwindled into an uncertain truce with the Sultan Saladin.†   (source)
  • Intense nightmares besieged me.†   (source)
  • He saw that Hurry did not overrate the strength of this position in a military point of view, since it would not be easy to attack it without exposing the assailants to the fire of the besieged.†   (source)
  • He bored through the edge of the crowd besieging the carriages, and squatted by the bench near the telegraph-office.†   (source)
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