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  • Close to retrieval circle and interdict!†   (source)
  • The man-made super-missile was about to hit the Troy at ninety kilometers per second and, with luck, send it on a course for its eventual home, just outside the three hundred mile no heavy weapons" interdiction circle of the gate and "up" in the plane of ecliptic.†   (source)
  • The interdiction field added its sonic undertones to the sudden silence.†   (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)
  • Partly effective interdiction for Terra had been set up from Luna (we didn't know it), but speaking broadly, the Terran Federation was losing the war.†   (source)
  • Interdiction patrol.†   (source)
  • I could see them peel off from the first squad, swarm into the boat as the interdiction circle tightened.†   (source)
  • He threw them the last twenty feet and they were passed into the retrieval boat — and with everybody else in, the shield gone and no interdiction, was hit and died instantly.†   (source)
  • They were to be dropped (if the drop had gone perfectly) on the periphery of our entire target and the neodogs were supposed to range outward and provide tactical intelligence to interdiction squads whose business it was to secure the periphery.†   (source)
  • We broke at last into the open and saw the boat standing on its tail, heard the ululation of its take-off warning — saw the platoon still on the ground around it, in interdiction circle, crouching behind the shield they had formed.†   (source)
  • The NATO mission would be to maintain the Atlantic Bridge and continue transoceanic trade, and the obvious Soviet mission would be to interdict this trade.†   (source)
  • Those were good days, he told himself, dodging bombs from the German Stukas and the more random artillery fire with which the Fascists had tried to interdict his squadron...Like most men he was unable to remember the stark terror of combat.†   (source)
  • But B. A. really stirred up the civilians and inspired loud screams to bring all our forces home, from everywhere — orbit them around the planet practically shoulder to shoulder and interdict the space Terra occupies.†   (source)
  • The only punishments which the political tribunals can inflict are removal, or the interdiction of public functions for the future.†   (source)
  • We have shown that in Europe the removal of a functionary and his political interdiction are the consequences of the penalty he is to undergo, and that in America they constitute the penalty itself.†   (source)
  • So saying, Ben-Hur rode forward with the guide, one of the inconveniences of travelling with camels being that it is necessarily an interdiction of polite conversation.†   (source)
  • the same detachment when the uproar about that engagement which, so far as Jefferson knew, never formally existed, which Bon himself never affirmed or denied, arose and he in the background, impartial and passive as though it were not himself involved or he acting on behalf of some absent friend, but as though the person involved and interdict were someone whom he had never heard of and cared nothing about.†   (source)
  • concomitant with the money and the sheen on the dollars was not from gold but from blood—a spot of earth which might have been created and set aside by Heaven itself, Grandfather said, as a theatre for violence and injustice and bloodshed and all the satanic lusts of human greed and cruelty, for the last despairing fury of all the pariah-interdict and all the doomed—a little island set in a smiling and fury-lurked and incredible indigo sea, which was the halfway point between what we call the jungle and what we call civilization, halfway between the dark inscrutable continent from which the black blood, the black bones and flesh and thinking and remembering and hopes and desires, wa†   (source)
  • and cursing it through bog and morass like a piece of artillery, speaking of the two stones as 'Colonel' and 'Mrs Colonel; then through the Cumberland Gap and down through the Tennessee mountains, travelling at night to dodge Yankee patrols, and into Mississippi in the late fall of '64, where the daughter waited whose marriage he had interdict and who was to be a widow the next summer though apparently not bereaved, where his wife was dead and his son self-excommunicated and —banished, and put one of the stones over his wife's grave and set the other upright in the hall of the house, where Miss Coldfield possibly (maybe doubtless) looked at it every day as though it were his portrait†   (source)
  • whom that first caste rested and to whom in certain cases it doubtless owed the very fact of its virginity; —not this to Henry, young, strong-blooded, victim of the hard celibacy of riding and hunting to heat and make importunate the blood of a young man, to which he and his kind were forced to pass time away, with girls of his own class interdict and inaccessible and women of the second class just as inaccessible because of money and distance, and hence only the slave girls, the housemaids neated and cleaned by white mistresses or perhaps girls with sweating bodies out of the fields themselves and the young man rides up and beckons the watching overseer and says Send me Juno or Missylen†   (source)
  • who had said at first it was a lie and then when he knew it was not a lie had still said 'I don't believe it', who had found even in that 'I don't believe it' enough of strength to repudiate home and blood in order to champion his defiance, and in which championing he proved his contention to be the false one and was more than ever interdict against returning home; Jesus, think of the load he had to carry, born of two Methodists (or of one long invincible line of Methodists) and raised in provincial North Mississippi, faced with incest, incest of all things that might have been reserved for him, that all his heredity and training had to rebel against on principle, and in a situatio†   (source)
  • 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 shoulders, the glaring eyes in which burned some indomitable desperation of undefeat watching that dark interdict ocean across which a grim lightless solitary ship fled with in its hold two thousand precious pounds-space containing not bullets, not even something to eat, but that much bombastic and inert carven rock which for the next year was to be a part of the regiment, to follow it into Pennsylvania and be present at Gettysburg, moving behind the regimen†   (source)
  • Mordred attacked; the Bishop of Canterbury dropped down on him with the Interdict.†   (source)
  • The Interdict included you with Mordred; it is not to be removed while you remain alive.†   (source)
  • They stood every strain easily —until the Interdict.†   (source)
  • But the names of saints are not interdicted.†   (source)
  • When he has given distinct proof of being a philosopher, you will raise your interdict.†   (source)
  • The nation may be said to lie under an interdict, and to be in wardship under guardians.†   (source)
  • He interdicted wine, and portioned out the brandy.†   (source)
  • We met, after I had brought home little Miles, more intimately than ever on the ground of my stupefaction, my general emotion: so monstrous was I then ready to pronounce it that such a child as had now been revealed to me should be under an interdict.†   (source)
  • We imagined we had educated it out of them; they thought so, too; the Interdict woke them up like a thunderclap!†   (source)
  • Yes, the paper was booming right along, for the Interdict made no impression, got no grip, while the war lasted.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XLI — THE INTERDICT†   (source)
  • It was the INTERDICT!†   (source)
  • The actual state of his mind—his proud resolve to give the lie beforehand to any suspicion that he would play the needy adventurer seeking a rich woman—lay quite out of her imagination, and she had interpreted all his behavior easily enough by her supposition that Mr. Casaubon's codicil seemed to him, as it did to her, a gross and cruel interdict on any active friendship between them.†   (source)
  • Pansy was as ready for a dance as ever; she was not of a generalising turn and had not extended to other pleasures the interdict she had seen placed on those of love.†   (source)
  • Upon this score he was so jealous of austerity and reserve, that when the Dame de Beaujeu, the king's daughter, came to visit the cloister of Notre-Dame, in the month of December, 1481, he gravely opposed her entrance, reminding the bishop of the statute of the Black Book, dating from the vigil of Saint-Barthélemy, 1334, which interdicts access to the cloister to "any woman whatever, old or young, mistress or maid."†   (source)
  • It gratified Mrs. Penniman to be able to feel conscientiously that this scene virtually removed the interdict which Catherine had placed upon her further communion with Morris Townsend.†   (source)
  • He obeyed then, but the strength of his desire protested against the servility of his conduct; and he thought, with a kind of naive hypocrisy, that his interdict to see her gave him a sort of right to love her.†   (source)
  • Ali then entered bringing coffee and chibouques; as to M. Baptistin, this portion of the building was interdicted to him.†   (source)
  • But I do say that there is no unvarying conventional set of rules by which people are judged; no bed of Procrustes to stretch or cramp their minds and lives; no hypocritical excommunication which people are forced to pronounce, either by unconsidered habit, or by the unexpressed threat of the lesser interdict if they are lax in their hypocrisy.†   (source)
  • Bear in mind, too, that under these untoward circumstances he has to cut many feet deep in the flesh; and in that subterraneous manner, without so much as getting one single peep into the ever-contracting gash thus made, he must skilfully steer clear of all adjacent, interdicted parts, and exactly divide the spine at a critical point hard by its insertion into the skull.†   (source)
  • But in this case the political interdict is a consequence of the sentence, and not the sentence itself.†   (source)
  • The ideas of chivalrous honour, which, amidst his wildness and levity, never utterly abandoned De Bracy, prohibited him from doing the knight any injury in his defenceless condition, and equally interdicted his betraying him to Front-de-Boeuf, who would have had no scruples to put to death, under any circumstances, the rival claimant of the fief of Ivanhoe.†   (source)
  • The remark does not interdict the further saying, if his scruples had been ever so extreme, not improbably he would at this time have smothered them.†   (source)
  • In the meantime the host and his wife hurried down with lamps into the cellar, which had so long been interdicted to them and where a frightful spectacle awaited them.†   (source)
  • I was solemnly interdicted by her, on her recovery, from touching my brother any more on any pretence whatever; and my poor mother, who, I could see, wished otherwise, meekly confirmed the interdict, by saying: 'No doubt you are right, my dear Jane.'†   (source)
  • I was solemnly interdicted by her, on her recovery, from touching my brother any more on any pretence whatever; and my poor mother, who, I could see, wished otherwise, meekly confirmed the interdict, by saying: 'No doubt you are right, my dear Jane.'†   (source)
  • So this is as much as to say, perverse and thieving knave that you are, that you permit yourself to be lacking in respect towards the Auditor of the Châtelet, to the magistrate committed to the popular police of Paris, charged with searching out crimes, delinquencies, and evil conduct; with controlling all trades, and interdicting monopoly; with maintaining the pavements; with debarring the hucksters of chickens, poultry, and water-fowl; of superintending the measuring of fagots and other sorts of wood; of purging the city of mud, and the air of contagious maladies; in a word, with attending continually to public affairs, without wages or hope of salary!†   (source)
  • Yes, but you have at least this consolation, that you can say to yourself she has not quit you voluntarily, that if you learn no news of her, it is because all communication with you is interdicted; while I—†   (source)
  • Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by paying for it.†   (source)
  • But the weapon with which they are intrusted is an imperfect one, and it can never reach the most dangerous offenders, since men who aim at the entire subversion of the laws are not likely to murmur at a political interdict.†   (source)
  • She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns.†   (source)
  • Some Indians of a tribe on the banks of Lake Superior had killed a European; the American government interdicted all traffic with the tribe to which the guilty parties belonged, until they were delivered up to justice.†   (source)
  • Of this war was noised through all Christendom, and at the last it was noised afore the Pope; and he considering the great goodness of King Arthur, and of Sir Launcelot, that was called the most noblest knights of the world, wherefore the Pope called unto him a noble clerk that at that time was there present; the French book saith, it was the Bishop of Rochester; and the Pope gave him bulls under lead unto King Arthur of England, charging him upon pain of interdicting of all England, that he take his queen Dame Guenever unto him again, and accord with Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • Sternly he pronounced
    The rigid interdiction, which resounds
    Yet dreadful in mine ear, though in my choice
    Not to incur; but soon his clear aspect
    Returned, and gracious purpose thus renewed.†   (source)
  • Pennsylvania and North Carolina are the two which contain the interdiction in these words: "As standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, THEY OUGHT NOT to be kept up."†   (source)
  • —O nation miserable,
    With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptered,
    When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,
    Since that the truest issue of thy throne
    By his own interdiction stands accursed
    And does blaspheme his breed?†   (source)
  • A fifth ill effect of the exclusion would be, that it would operate as a constitutional interdiction of stability in the administration.†   (source)
  • They are not, for instance, to emit paper money; but the interdiction results from the Constitution, and will have no connection with any law of the United States.†   (source)
  • If such a supposition would be unnatural and unreasonable, it cannot be rational to maintain that an injunction of the trial by jury in certain cases is an interdiction of it in others.†   (source)
  • It is remarkable, that even in the two States which seem to have meditated an interdiction of military establishments in time of peace, the mode of expression made use of is rather cautionary than prohibitory.†   (source)
  • Here is a simple view of the subject, that shows us at once the impropriety of a constitutional interdiction of such establishments, and the necessity of leaving the matter to the discretion and prudence of the legislature.†   (source)
  • If, under this impression, he proceeded to pass in review the several State constitutions, how great would be his disappointment to find that TWO ONLY of them [1] contained an interdiction of standing armies in time of peace; that the other eleven had either observed a profound silence on the subject, or had in express terms admitted the right of the Legislature to authorize their existence.†   (source)
  • Here the profound lesson of reception, nor preference nor denial,
    The black with his woolly head, the felon, the diseas'd, the
    illiterate person, are not denied;
    The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beggar's tramp, the
    drunkard's stagger, the laughing party of mechanics,
    The escaped youth, the rich person's carriage, the fop, the eloping couple,
    The early market-man, the hearse, the moving of furniture into the
    town, the return back from the town,
    They pass, I also pass, any thing passes, none can be interdicted,
    None but are accepted, none but shall be dear to me.†   (source)
  • Now answer this plain question, yes or no, Wast thou acquainted with the interdict?†   (source)
  • "I understand thee, Sancho," replied Don Quixote; "thou art dying to have the interdict I placed upon thy tongue removed; consider it removed, and say what thou wilt while we are wandering in these mountains."†   (source)
  • What, bury him despite the interdict?†   (source)
  • Italy the Roman religion seems the most cruel and mercenary upon earth; and a very judicious person, who travelled through Italy from Turkey, tells, That there is only the face and outward pomp of religion there; that the church protects murderers and assassins; and then delivers the civil magistrate over to Satan for doing justice; interdicts whole kingdoms, and shuts up the churches for want of paying a few ecclesiastical dues, and so puts a stop to religion for want of their money; that the court of Inquisition burnt two men for speaking dishonourably of the Blessed Virgin; and the missionaries of China tolerated the worshipping the devil by their new converts: that Italy was th†   (source)
  • Of this war was noised through all Christendom, and at the last it was noised afore the Pope; and he considering the great goodness of King Arthur, and of Sir Launcelot, that was called the most noblest knights of the world, wherefore the Pope called unto him a noble clerk that at that time was there present; the French book saith, it was the Bishop of Rochester; and the Pope gave him bulls under lead unto King Arthur of England, charging him upon pain of interdicting of all England, that he take his queen Dame Guenever unto him again, and accord with Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • I rose as at thy call, but found thee not;
    To find thee I directed then my walk;
    And on, methought, alone I passed through ways
    That brought me on a sudden to the tree
    Of interdicted knowledge: fair it seemed,
    Much fairer to my fancy than by day:
    And, as I wondering looked, beside it stood
    One shaped and winged like one of those from Heaven
    By us oft seen; his dewy locks distilled
    Ambrosia; on that tree he also gazed;
    And "O fair plant," said he, "with fruit surcharged,
    Deigns none to ease thy load, and taste thy sweet,
    Nor God, nor Man?†   (source)
  • Say, Goddess, what ensued when Raphael,
    The affable Arch-Angel, had forewarned
    Adam, by dire example, to beware
    Apostasy, by what befel in Heaven
    To those apostates; lest the like befall
    In Paradise to Adam or his race,
    Charged not to touch the interdicted tree,
    If they transgress, and slight that sole command,
    So easily obeyed amid the choice
    Of all tastes else to please their appetite,
    Though wandering.†   (source)
  • By the laws of several States, certain descriptions of aliens, who had rendered themselves obnoxious, were laid under interdicts inconsistent not only with the rights of citizenship but with the privilege of residence.†   (source)
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