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  • The boys like plays, news bulletins, martial anthems.†   (source)
  • One man had him sleep in his chainmail to make him more martial.†   (source)
  • This was entirely martial, and the mood was tense.†   (source)
  • "I heard Reggie was in a martial arts movie," Crusher volunteered.†   (source)
  • She was on the Municipal Children's Martial Arts Team.†   (source)
  • It probably means a court-martial and the rest of your life peeling potatoes, but at least you'll be alive.†   (source)
  • Because his dad was obsessed with martial arts, not because his mom was Korean.†   (source)
  • These skills included cordon bleu cooking, marksmanship, a customized blend of martial arts, emergency medicine and information technology.†   (source)
  • I practice a martial art called Aikido.†   (source)
  • And yeah, there was the past twelve years of martial arts training high in the Himalayas.†   (source)
  • The daggers pinned the men to a wooden cart by their shirtsleeves: a feat of martial skill Hatter hoped would show that he could kill all three of them if he so desired.†   (source)
  • He was also a martial arts expert.†   (source)
  • Nine standard ship weeks later, Kassad stood before a FORCE court-martial review on Freeholm.†   (source)
  • He is obsessed with martial arts.†   (source)
  • The twins recognized the room immediately: it was a dojo, a martial arts school.†   (source)
  • Six months later I had married this bright, kind, green-eyed martial arts expert, who said he would protect me forever.†   (source)
  • We ended up across the state line in a city where there'd been a big UFC mixed-martial-arts fight earlier that evening.†   (source)
  • A regular court-martial.†   (source)
  • Not only are you saving my hands from permanent injury, you also just spared me two long hours of a plot-less, badly dubbed martial arts film.†   (source)
  • The life of Natalia Bogdanova Ramius had been lost at the hands of a surgeon who had been drinking while on call—a court-martial offense in the Soviet Navy—but Marko could not have the doctor punished.†   (source)
  • So additional classes were added, including martial arts.†   (source)
  • if I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years.†   (source)
  • They chased lizards to slice off their tails, mice to make them run races, and butterflies to wipe the powder from their wings; then, when they were older, they punched and kicked each other on instructions from that Chinese laundryman, who was ahead of his time and had been the first to introduce the country to the millennial practice of the martial arts.†   (source)
  • Billy told me I'd need to take martial-arts classes as soon as possible.†   (source)
  • So Lambesis made a kung fu parody ad in which the Airwalk hero fights off martial arts villains with his skateboard.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza did not wait for the aunt to go into the house, and he crossed the street with a martial stride that allowed him to overcome the weakness in his knees, but he spoke to her aunt, not to Fermina Daza.†   (source)
  • She looked as if she were on her way to a martial arts class.†   (source)
  • Then the martial strains of "Anchors Aweigh" blared out, followed by "High Hopes," sung by Frank Sinatra.†   (source)
  • Nathan and Savannah took turns typing him messages about school, the books they were reading, the bowling trip they'd taken, a new martial arts class they were in, what they were having for dinner.†   (source)
  • Her feet had calluses on them, the result of martial-arts training.†   (source)
  • Testa—Italian for "head"—some claim is an ancient Ethiopian martial art, but if so, there are no dojos, no belts, just lots of broken noses.†   (source)
  • I raced through all levels, knocked out every opponent in martial arts tournaments, and zapped all the aliens attacking from the skies in the sci-fi adventures.†   (source)
  • At a court-martial called at his own insistence, he was found guilty only of disobedience.†   (source)
  • It is a tight little theater of hands and arms, some martial test with formal rules of grappling.†   (source)
  • Parades were so martial.†   (source)
  • Thus she gave the world a new martial art.†   (source)
  • More serious by far were the 200-series shots: fighting; extortion, blackmail, protection rackets; wearing a disguise; engaging in or encouraging a group demonstration; work stoppage; bribery; stealing; demonstrating, practicing, or using martial arts, boxing, wrestling, or other forms of physical encounters, military exercises or drills; and the best-known of all shots, the 205—engaging in sexual acts.†   (source)
  • In Germany, she had worked in the JAG Corps as a clerk and watched court-martial proceedings.†   (source)
  • She simply took me to a martial arts studio and prepaid in cash for five years' worth of training.†   (source)
  • It is not a martial song, or a victory song, the way many national anthems are.†   (source)
  • His experience in the martial arts obviously didn't extend beyond The Matrix.†   (source)
  • Its overarching purpose was to quickly transform Doc, Rene, Ira, Mike, Franklin, Harlon, and 21,000 others from standard-issue fighting men into an elite, interdependent martial society that would be moved intact across an ocean to fight an island battle.†   (source)
  • Against the Serric steel of a Martial blade, the knife will only shatter.†   (source)
  • He remained motionless and let her pass on the sidewalk, her heels clicking martially on the pavement.†   (source)
  • In days of old, this might have involved a cattle raid or even a battle, but in our time the deeds were more mischievous than martial.†   (source)
  • They swung their long wooden weapons like martial arts experts.†   (source)
  • We're going to capture as many of the deserters as we can, and bring them north to court martial.†   (source)
  • There it was—the best of hundreds of years of experience in martial arts.†   (source)
  • "Stay tuned to hear Mr. Thompson's report on the world crisis at eight P.M!" cried the martial voice of an announcer, from the radio receiver-when the hand on the dial reached the hour of 7:45, "Step on it, boys, step on it!" snapped Mr. Thompson, while the radio burst into another march.†   (source)
  • All the while the martial music blared from loudspeakers at the rear of plaza.†   (source)
  • I said, "Oh good, I didn't realize I'd be able to try out my new martial arts skills so soon.†   (source)
  • The authority which remanded you specified a field court-martial — why it so chose, this Court will not speculate.†   (source)
  • Years of martial training had given him a pleasing build.†   (source)
  • I'm no martial arts expert.†   (source)
  • The inmates here had been convicted at court-martial of violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.†   (source)
  • The memorizing was more a discipline for him, like a serious craft or martial art, a chosen kind of suffering involving hours of practice and concentration by which you gradually came to know yourself.†   (source)
  • And if I dog refuse it (as ail good reasons of captaincy and martial policy urge me to do) you will think, and teach others tan think, I was afraid.†   (source)
  • He had a martial bearing and the kind of a face on which emotion rarely showed, a calm, almost regal quality.†   (source)
  • At an all-school assembly the second Thursday after Finch's funeral, they bring in a martial arts expert from Indianapolis to talk to us about safety and how to defend ourselves, as if suicide is something that might attack us on the street, and then they show us this film about teenagers on drugs.†   (source)
  • They taught her the basics of martial arts but nothing of guns, for knowledge of weaponry didn't fit Leila's profile, either.†   (source)
  • I went with the ladies to a martial arts demonstration.†   (source)
  • After long separations, Mark's greetings were a form of martial art.†   (source)
  • The father seemed to be up before a court-martial, now.†   (source)
  • The martial image is apt in another way because soon after I begin making my more aggressive forays there in the semi-dark, fingering the arch of her thigh or trying to get my paw tucked in between her clamped knees, she yanks that flailing tongue out of my mouth and mutters things like: "Whoa there, Colonel Mosby!"†   (source)
  • practicing the martial arts.†   (source)
  • Revolutionary courts-martial were instituted, and the death penalty, which had recently been abolished, was restored.†   (source)
  • she faces court martial
  • At dawn, after a summary court martial, Arcadio was shot against the wall of the cemetery.†   (source)
  • Sampson and his friends loved to watch martial arts TV shows and movies.†   (source)
  • And there was the matter of the court martial on the crimes of Colonel Graff.†   (source)
  • Chente opened up classes at the center such as martial arts, arts & crafts and photography.†   (source)
  • One of them said, "Did you see any of the court-martial?"†   (source)
  • It's lucky I studied martial arts for so long.†   (source)
  • The president of the court-martial was annoyed.†   (source)
  • 'Although I'm certain your martial-arts sensei is turning in his grave.†   (source)
  • He was heavily into yoga and martial arts and was a very close friend of Shane's.†   (source)
  • She's been studying martial arts since the second grade.†   (source)
  • The court-martial has decided and that's the end of it.†   (source)
  • Be that as it may, our Aemon lacked the Dragonknight's martial nature.†   (source)
  • The martial ambitions of the inspector general were undampened,however.†   (source)
  • Last question: Thor is a martial artist?†   (source)
  • "Le Coeur du Soldat," said a flat male voice, martial music in the background.†   (source)
  • Get 'em!" as he watched his favorite martial arts movies.†   (source)
  • So am I. I'm no stranger to martial arts.†   (source)
  • Tanis made a stance similar to those of the martial arts from Tom's dreams of the histories.†   (source)
  • There were no courts-martial; good combat teams don't have them.†   (source)
  • You can't court-martial me for desertion in the face of the enemy.†   (source)
  • It was the unmistakable ending of a symphonic march, martial music at its most intense.†   (source)
  • Alessandro rattled the door with martial violence.†   (source)
  • He was probably below, watching his stupid martial arts programs.†   (source)
  • Barbarians from the borderlands lay beside Martial soldiers.†   (source)
  • General, that there are officers on my staff who have requested your court-martial?†   (source)
  • They kicked him out for a reason that didn't involve a court-martial.†   (source)
  • And martial arts are for unsure little boys kicking away under fluorescent lights.†   (source)
  • They'd certainly look silly trying to court-martial me after that.'†   (source)
  • Somewhere in the city, my brother suffers in a Martial prison.†   (source)
  • But court-martial would have destroyed him.†   (source)
  • The Law does not permit counsel in field courts-martial.†   (source)
  • I'm so thrown off that I forget he's a Martial.†   (source)
  • Do you believe that these court-martial papers should be signed?†   (source)
  • Do you think they'll court-martial you for desertion in the face of the enemy?†   (source)
  • Jackson is outraged, orders a court-martial which never convenes.†   (source)
  • No skills to survive a country swarming with Martial patrols.†   (source)
  • You'll be lucky if we don't give you a court-martial.†   (source)
  • But we can court-martial you now for desertion from duty, since you went to Rome without a pass.†   (source)
  • I've prepared court-martial papers for General Stuart.†   (source)
  • Helene is a true Martial, more loyal to the Empire than to her own mother.†   (source)
  • If Darin ends up in a Martial prison, we'll never see him again.†   (source)
  • Marshall was furious with the absent Stuart, was ready to draw up court-martial papers.†   (source)
  • But I certainly wouldn't let them court-martial me.†   (source)
  • Do you think they will try to court-martial you?†   (source)
  • Darin excusing himself when Nan and Pop discussed the most recent Martial raids, fists clenched.†   (source)
  • We don't have the manpower to break into a Martial prison.†   (source)
  • No Martial would give up its secrets to a Scholar.†   (source)
  • A crypt is a good place to hide if a Martial patrol gets too close.†   (source)
  • When Darin was fifteen, he fell from a tree while trying to draw Scholars working a Martial orchard.†   (source)
  • Some sick Martial game I don't yet understand?†   (source)
  • People will see my eyes and think Martial instead of Commandant.†   (source)
  • Martial myths are as believable as Tribal fables of jinn and the Nightbringer.†   (source)
  • For once, I'm thankful for the severity of Martial discipline.†   (source)
  • The unmistakable, clipped cadence of Martial voices carries down the tunnel.†   (source)
  • At my parents for dying and my brother for apprenticing himself to a Martial.†   (source)
  • But the merchant has clearly done his time in the Martial army because after only a moment, he nods.†   (source)
  • Anyone caught near our city's forges without good reason— Scholar or Martial—risks execution.†   (source)
  • If anyone can survive a Martial interrogation, it's him.†   (source)
  • Again Pig's martial whine filled the tent.†   (source)
  • It grows so tiresome, I tell you, to be around Andreas and his right-wing friends and their martial music.†   (source)
  • I've been doing martial arts for years.†   (source)
  • He thought briefly that such an anticlimax would be the universe's fitting verdict on his martial pretensions: the brave warrior floating off into near-planet orbit, no maneuvering systems, no propellant, no reaction mass of any sort-even the pistol was non-recoil.†   (source)
  • Many schools had martial arts clubs on campus, and their parents always enrolled them in the best dojo they could find.†   (source)
  • Once someone said that Shawn wasn't really bad, that he only got into brawls because he had a reputation for being unbeatable—for knowing all there was to know about martial arts, for fighting like a man who feels no pain—so every strung-out wannabe in the valley thought he could make a name for himself by besting him.†   (source)
  • Madame Mao also ordered two young champions from the Beijing Martial Arts School and the Beijing Acrobatics School tojoin us as model students.†   (source)
  • On the radio they played martial music, and on television they showed only landscapes from around the country and cartoons.†   (source)
  • Although Lujun was good at acrobatics, martial arts and Beijing Opera Movement, he struggled hard at ballet.†   (source)
  • All martial arts have a common root.†   (source)
  • Beyond the telekinesis practice, most of our session was spent drilling technique in fighting—hand-to-hand combat, wrestling, mixed martial arts—followed by elements of composure—grace under pressure, mind control, how to spot fear in the eyes of an opponent and then know how best to expose it.†   (source)
  • The president of the court-martial began his final speech when Arcadio realized that two hours had passed.†   (source)
  • Most of the tapes at the store were Indian movies, or else action flicks, martial-arts films with Jet Li, Jean-Claude Van Damme, all of Steven Seagal's pictures.†   (source)
  • Alba's childhood was a mixture of vegetarian diets, Japanese martial arts, Tibetan dance, yogic breathing, relaxation and concentration with Professor Hausser, and many other interesting techniques, not to mention the contribution to her education made by her two uncles and the three enchanting Mora sisters.†   (source)
  • The court-martial says he was.†   (source)
  • He told me many times that he wished he could go back to martial arts again but, for the same reason as me, he felt trapped.†   (source)
  • Josh and Sophie were sitting in the front seats of the SUV Scatty had borrowed from one of her martial arts students.†   (source)
  • "You know better than I," he said, "that all courts-martial are farces and that you're really paying for the crimes of other people, because this time we're going to win the war at any price.†   (source)
  • Everyone in the Coast Guard chain of command who had allowed Kudirka's removal faced the possibility of court-martial.†   (source)
  • From his lonely workshop he could hear the martial music, the artillery salutes, the tolling of the Te Deum, and a few phrases of the speeches delivered in front of the house as they named the street after him.†   (source)
  • Josh was watching the red-haired young woman intently, noting how she stood perfectly still, like most of the martial arts teachers he knew.†   (source)
  • I created the distant ancestor of most of the martial arts that are studied today, the red-haired warrior said, bright green eyes flashing wickedly.†   (source)
  • Because he had come in the middle of that second year, he'd missed learning the basics, and the way the muscles were used in ballet was so different from the way they were used in martial arts.†   (source)
  • Not only will you receive six years of ballet training, but you will also study Chinese folk dance, Beijing Opera Movement, martial arts, acrobatics, politics, Chinese and international history, Chinese and international geography, poetry, mathematics and Madame Mao's Art Philosophy.†   (source)
  • They applauded everything I did, but I could tell they were bored with my plies and arabesques: the back flips and the martial arts movements were much more interesting, and they were so impressed when I told them I had seen Chairman Mao and even met Madame Mao in person.†   (source)
  • Only, you see, he did win the war, and as long as King Charles was adding the crown of Spain to his collection of headgear, he thought it would be churlish to court-martial the soldier who won it for him.†   (source)
  • Coach Hedge was different—mostly good different, though he did have an unhealthy obsession with martial arts and baseball bats.†   (source)
  • They are not a martial people.†   (source)
  • Since the satellite TV was up again, Coach Hedge was in his cabin happily catching up on his mixed martial arts cage matches.†   (source)
  • What they saw was not flattering to the Chinese onlookers or to those who held the martial arts of the Orient in mystical esteem.†   (source)
  • I did learn martial arts in the Philippines, but trust me, I could never move like I've learned to move in my dreams while leading the Guard.†   (source)
  • Nancy took a breath and gathered her thoughts into stillness, using her martial-arts training to get her breathing under control.†   (source)
  • "Well, you've got five minutes to find that platoon or you're up for a general court-martial!" the colonel retorted.†   (source)
  • She's written the name of the martial arts studio she goes to and then underneath that, only a few words, written in all caps— RUN FIRST AND RUN FAST Drew sits down on one end of the couch and pulls Nastya into the seat next to him.†   (source)
  • Well after noon, and long after the BBC broadcast, the martial music on Radio Addis Ababa ceased and, with a rustle of papers, a stuttering Crown Prince Asfa Wossen came on the air.†   (source)
  • She loved the martial architecture of huge moving bodies, the armies and mobs in other Eisenstein films, and she felt she was in some ambiguous filmscape somewhere between the Soviet model and Hollywood's vaulted heaven of love, sex, crime and individual heroism, of scenery and luxury and gorgeous toilets.†   (source)
  • Six men got out and walked in martial unison towards what was apparently the main path of the bird sanctuary.†   (source)
  • The other was identified as a former American Intelligence officer living in Paris, a highly controversial man who killed a journalist in Vietnam and was given the choice of retiring from the army or facing a court-martial.†   (source)
  • She talked with the sensei and found out that there were different kinds of martial arts —tae kwon do for fighting when you have a little distance, jujitsu for up close and personal, and escrima for knife fighting.†   (source)
  • The martial music ended.†   (source)
  • Coach Hedge was entertaining a few locals with tap dancing and martial arts, occasionally singing into his megaphone, though nobody seemed to understand what he was saying.†   (source)
  • "I should have shot him, could I have got my gun off," Reed said at Leffingwell's court-martial on September 19.†   (source)
  • He was pursued by a young Chinese dressed in the white tunic, sash and kneelength trousers of a martial-arts instructor.†   (source)
  • His own recently whopped head throbbed in sympathy, but he had never been happier to have a chaperone who liked mixed martial arts cage matches.†   (source)
  • Convicted at court-martial of treason.†   (source)
  • Nancy had begun martial-arts training partly because she hoped to make her gestures cool and smooth and powerful, and also because she had felt the frustrations of a woman officer trying to advance her career in the Army.†   (source)
  • And so from one to another through all the troops, which added fresh fuel to the martial fire before kindled.†   (source)
  • A little martial arts.†   (source)
  • When we had to impress other armies-marauders, columns of refugees filing past one another, boy gangs following their martial arts teachers-I mounted and rode in front.†   (source)
  • He listened to the casually sexy rustle of crushed silk, the martial click-click of designer shoes, the sultry scuff of cowboy boots that cost more than Wyatt Earp had earned in a lifetime.†   (source)
  • You know, training the savages—" Cymbals crashed in the metallic, deafening martial music as Tank Shirt's eyes widened.†   (source)
  • In my dreams I know the martial arts.†   (source)
  • My court-martial is long since over.†   (source)
  • Most important, she pulled aside their war-crazed chaperone, Coach Gleeson Hedge, and encouraged him to take the morning off in his cabin and watch reruns of mixed martial arts championships.†   (source)
  • Then he paused and added in that flat voice officers use when quoting regulations: "You may demand trial by court-martial if such be your choice.†   (source)
  • But as it happened, both their commanders, James Smallwood and John Haslet, were absent, on court-martial duty in New York.†   (source)
  • As the door was sporadically opened for entering or departing clientele, metallic martial music blared forth into the alley; and the clientele were not candidates for an haute couture cotillion.†   (source)
  • It was the first time Thomas had been exposed to the full breadth of the fight method developed by Tanis, and it made the martial arts of his dreams feel simple by comparison.†   (source)
  • The amateurish attempts at combat by the berobed students of the unconscious martial-arts instructor were met by a flurry of slashing legs, crashing chops and the whirling manoeuvres of a judo expert.†   (source)
  • But he didn't report us to the Lieutenant — there was never a court-martial among the Roughnecks and no man was ever flogged.†   (source)
  • His pleasures were a game of cards, a good drink or two, and martial music, which he relished to the point of absurdity, marching himself with his military band at almost any excuse.†   (source)
  • Maybe martial arts.†   (source)
  • Tom could never be sure if it was his martial arts instincts or his generous intelligence that took over in the next moment-either way, at least his courage couldn't be faulted.†   (source)
  • The well-dressed Chinese in the tailored dark suit, the martial arts veteran who did not know enough dirty moves, the man he had fought in an alley and who had led him up into the hills of Guangdong.†   (source)
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