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  • The naked Toucan had startled me more than any ax-wielding disgruntled ex-employee.†   (source)
  • Her company wielded hundreds of chain saws like a swarm of steel locusts, and after they passed, only stumps were left.†   (source)
  • The Count had not wielded a hammer since he was a boy at Idlehour when he would help Tikhon, the old caretaker, repair the fencing in the first weeks of spring.†   (source)
  • Wielding pickaxes, Gregor and Toni began to enlarge the tunnel.†   (source)
  • If only I had had as many arms as the goddess Durga—two to hold the gaffs, four to grasp the fish and two to wield the hatchets.†   (source)
  • Floating angels and trumpet-wielding infants danced all over the walls and ceiling.†   (source)
  • Men wielding pickaxes swarmed the dilapidated Kabul Museum and smashed pre-Islamic statues to rubble-that is, those that hadn't already been looted by the Mujahideen.†   (source)
  • Langdon was not about to argue with a woman wielding a gun.†   (source)
  • Screaming at the top of his lungs, he wielded his huge knife with both hands above his head and rushed forward, straight for his monster.†   (source)
  • It was precisely the sort of lethal impression Horace had seen at least two dozen times in the Pacific war, the result of close-in combat, hand to hand, and made by a powerfully wielded gun butt.†   (source)
  • Mae was at once aware of the power she wielded—instantly, she became one of the three most visible Circlers—and determined to wear it lightly.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, they burst into the creek, wielding sticks like swords.†   (source)
  • If he found that missing bullet here, where Matt's body had been found, then Matt clearly hadn't been the one to fire Gun B-it would have been Peter wielding that weapon, as well as Gun A. Or in other words: Josie would have been lying to Jordan McAfee.†   (source)
  • I am descended from John Adams on my grandmother's side (her maiden name was Bates, and her family came to America on the Mayflower); yet, in our town, it was my grandfather's name that had the clout, and my grandmother wielded her married name with such a sure sense of self-possession that she might as well have been a Wheelwright and an Adams and a Bates.†   (source)
  • Educated people are interested in differences; they assume that I'm different from them but exempted from being one of "them," the knife-wielding undocumenteds hiding in basements webbing furniture.†   (source)
  • The king had claimed that magic was an affront to the Goddess and her gods—that to wield it was to impertinently imitate their power.†   (source)
  • Worst-case scenarios included my grandfather running naked in the street, wielding a hunting rifle, foaming at the mouth on the front lawn, or lying in wait with a blunt object in hand.†   (source)
  • A good sharp one, and a bold man to wield it.†   (source)
  • As certainly as he had known that the doe was benign, he knew that Ron had to be the one to wield the sword.†   (source)
  • We watched a Red girl fall into the arena like a bolt of lightning, wielding power she should not have.†   (source)
  • Although they were almost the same age, Ezinma wielded a strong influence over her half-sister.†   (source)
  • An enormous crowd has turned out to watch me, held back and patrolled by an almost equally large platoon of gun-wielding soldiers.†   (source)
  • He wields 10,000 hands of anger, greed, and revenge.†   (source)
  • Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority.†   (source)
  • Dad started to paint, wielding the brush awkwardly.†   (source)
  • Along the border of the soccer field, a few of my neighbors kept a respectful distance from the police tape, wondering at the men dressed in heavy blue parkas wielding shovels and rakes like medical tools.†   (source)
  • She wielded an enormous pair of hedge shears in her bright-orange gardening gloves.†   (source)
  • The President in particular is very much a figurehead—he wields no real power whatsoever.†   (source)
  • The Indian boys were bewilderingly quick and skillful, and they wielded their bats with no heed for each other's heads, and certainly not for Matt's.†   (source)
  • Montag drifted about as if still another incomprehensible storm had turned him, to see Stoneman and Black wielding axes, shattering windowpanes to provide cross ventilation.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of prisoners in threadbare clothing hurried from one work detail to another, threatened by gun-wielding German and Ukrainian guards.†   (source)
  • HARRY/VOLDEMORT: Together, the power we could wield.†   (source)
  • "Oh, Theo!" she said, her face opening with a touching, unguarded plainness that made me think of Andy on the rare occasions when he was actually pleased about something—such as his Nagler 22mm telescopic eyepiece arriving in the mail or his happy discovery of the LARP (Live Action Role Play) porn site, featuring busty sword-wielding lasses getting it on with knights and wizards and so forth.†   (source)
  • Another, assaulted by someone wielding a machete atop the trains, arrived with the ligaments in his right hand severed.†   (source)
  • Everyone was in costume, most of the girls in the kinds of racy getups—cleavage-baring French maids, whip-wielding dominatrixes, slutty Wizard of Oz Dorothys with skirts hiked up to show their ruby garters—that normally made me feel like a big oaf.†   (source)
  • I picture Sarah dressed in a hard hat, wielding a hammer.†   (source)
  • I type Nick's name into the search engine, and the blogs are going nuts, because my husband has gotten drunk and done an insane interview, in a bar, with a random girl wielding a Flip camera.†   (source)
  • I will meld my strength with yours, but you are the one who must wield the magic.†   (source)
  • "They belong to any pharaoh who is strong enough to wield them," I said.†   (source)
  • Never had she wielded her imaginative powers so precisely, so intensely, or for so long a time.†   (source)
  • He had seen holos and pictures, of course, but he had not encountered the animals themselves until this exercise, and the size, smell, and sound of them tended to be unnerving-especially so when the damn quadrupeds were armored chest and head, shod in steel, and trained to carry armored men wielding four meters of lance.†   (source)
  • Like most mothers, she wielded tremendous power and my staunch resolve would crumble like a sandcastle before her frontal assaults, which were like tidal waves.†   (source)
  • Someone spoke through her, someone who knew my true names, someone who used the girl's aura to wield a whip of pure energy: that's what reversed our spells.†   (source)
  • Militiamen wielding AK-47s rode in the back of a speeding pickup truck.†   (source)
  • Carl "Jimmy-Ricks" Prashkin, a San Francisco investor, reputed to be the heir apparent of the power Gienelli now wields.†   (source)
  • It is he who wields it with his pen.†   (source)
  • Of her fear, no, not yet, though I couldn't believe when I looked into his eyes that he'd tried to wield this power over her: his eyes said, Live.†   (source)
  • "Sure," said Isabelle, wielding the eyeliner expertly.†   (source)
  • The Metaverse-the entire Street-exists by virtue of a network that I own and controL 'But that means, if you'll just follow my reasoning for a bit, that when I have a programmer working under me who is working with that information, he is wielding enormous power.†   (source)
  • And until the United States decides to wield a very large stick up here in support of the elected government of the people, in Kabul, I'm not looking for any serious change real soon.†   (source)
  • In the evenings, the Afghan family's mother would come home and have to negotiate her way through a gauntlet of gun-wielding thugs, through clouds of pot smoke.†   (source)
  • In fact, it may well be an even more difficult strategy than the first, for the simple reason that parents simply don't wield that kind of influence over children.†   (source)
  • Within hours, Seward's servant identified Powell as the knife-wielding maniac.†   (source)
  • Dr. Urbino, for his part, commanded respect with the same weapons that were used against him, except that his were wielded with more intelligence and with calculated solemnity.†   (source)
  • I suppose you did some research, so you know that I once wielded some influence in Swedish industry and the job market.†   (source)
  • They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul's place for him.†   (source)
  • I'd let him rescue me from sword-wielding ninjas.†   (source)
  • Caroline, perhaps, wielding the camera.†   (source)
  • One really cannot guess the reason for these absurd allegations — unless, quite ludicrously, they originate from that brief, entirely insignificant few weeks in the early thirties when Mrs Carolyn Barnet came to wield an unusual influence over his lordship.†   (source)
  • The real power is wielded every day, in these little challenges and intimidations, by people just like us.†   (source)
  • Later, when she had a moment to look, she saw Tom had taken Grace right to the front line and had her wielding the branding iron.†   (source)
  • His company inspired more imitators, wielded more power over the American economy — and spawned a mascot even more famous than Mickey Mouse.†   (source)
  • He had called her the icebound heiress of all the ages, and she had worked very hard to prove him wrong and to dissociate herself, in his mind, from those who wielded the knout of power.†   (source)
  • At night I lie awake thinking of dangerous people wielding hooks and prongs, but during the day there is another danger, another darkness, soft and mysterious.†   (source)
  • When I glance back at Enano, I notice he's now wielding a switchblade in his hand.†   (source)
  • HEMA WIELDED HER SCALPEL like a woman on fire.†   (source)
  • An SS came toward us wielding a club.†   (source)
  • Whereupon Dick was supposed to seize the steering wheel, while Perry, wielding his hand-kerchief-wrapped rock, belabored the salesman's head—"opened it up.†   (source)
  • They wore broad-striped black-and-white uniforms and looked like they might launch into a rendition of "Jailhouse Rock" until a club-wielding guard joined them and announced, "These men you see here will never be released from prison.†   (source)
  • Every shop is jammed, with smiling, ruddy parents wielding plastic.†   (source)
  • He called them rats-with-wings, and he'd already patrolled the railing twice wielding a wooden plunger, trying to scare them off.†   (source)
  • Practice has steadied and strengthened her until now she wields a sure power that extends in all directions on hairlike wires too small for anybody's eye but mine; I see her sit in the center of this web of wires like a watchful robot, tend her network with mechanical insect skill, know every second which wire runs where and just what current to send up to get the results she wants.†   (source)
  • August as a bull-hook-wielding madman.†   (source)
  • Some fought back, wielding their muskets and rifles like clubs, before being run through with bayonets.†   (source)
  • When I came down into the kitchen, she was poised in front of the open freezer, wielding the ice pick, Barry Manilow crooning out at her from the tape player she kept on the kitchen table.†   (source)
  • And soldiers, back in those days of military rule, had wielded a special coercive power over every peasant.†   (source)
  • Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent—all depending on who wields it and how.†   (source)
  • To leave them what tools they would need, the weapons they would wield, he risked all he had, all he was.†   (source)
  • Just think of it: We'd make our own plans, wield our own influence, have a bit of fun while we can.†   (source)
  • Your blood will strengthen the crafting and ensure that only you can wield this weapon.†   (source)
  • Butorsky wielded housing assignments as a weapon, so if you got on his bad side, you would be stuck into rooms.†   (source)
  • And my sword is the only one you can wield.†   (source)
  • How had that chubby little girl weighed down with hair become a knife-wielding would-be killer out to get her son?†   (source)
  • When he was angry he would wield it like the flat of a sword, whacking out at his kids or his wife or his hallucinations.†   (source)
  • He caught sight of Iggy, wielding the crowbar like a sword, slashing and bashing Flyboys with his long reach.†   (source)
  • The proper summoning, read by the High King while wielding the Ring of Power, calls the dragons.†   (source)
  • But I think that in her heart Aphra had never ceased to pine for the kind of power a woman like Anys might wield.†   (source)
  • It was the way he wielded power, you see.†   (source)
  • This was how Svensson planned to wield unthinkable power without the help of a single soldier.†   (source)
  • Hipps dropped the sword-wielding officer and one soldier with his M1; the other two retreated.†   (source)
  • In the past few years, you've managed to outwit a psychotic vampire who chased you down with the help of thugs the size of dump trucks, as well as a stake-wielding slayer, bent on your demise, who actually stabbed you through the chest.†   (source)
  • It had a deep, fenced yard where children could play, far from the secondhand smoke of Polish handymen and gangs of fourteen-year-olds wielding guns.†   (source)
  • feel a presence behind me and turn to find Spiro Teluman wielding the most beautiful scim I've ever seen.†   (source)
  • One of you was electrified by the power you wielded for the ninety seconds it took to say the words, the power to make Vinny truly happy.†   (source)
  • Because of the universal respect the regent enjoyed—from both black and white—and the seemingly untempered power that he wielded, I saw chieftaincy as being the very center around which life revolved.†   (source)
  • As the rubber heads exploded the bursts gave rise to fierce arguments for and against the sagging, pinched remnants of political icons and their dart-wielding executioners.†   (source)
  • Loor had scooped up the wooden weapon that the Milago prisoner had used and was ready to wield it.†   (source)
  • Mr. Tafa ran over with his shotgun, followed by Mrs. Tafa in her nightie, wielding a fry pan.†   (source)
  • Now I see why he wields such a big stick when Mom isn't around.†   (source)
  • In bayonet training throughout the world, the soldier who wields the bayoneted rifle is ordered to scream as he drives the blade through.†   (source)
  • Nobody is permitted to have gold in Europe, except the whip-wielding friends of humanity, who claim that they spend it for the welfare of their victims.†   (source)
  • That's when he flipped onto an American broadcast of a bearded white guy wielding a circular saw.†   (source)
  • It was an instrument of destruction, a tool for scrying, a shelter and home for those who would wield it.†   (source)
  • Turtle, wielding a chopstick in each hand, had managed to pick up a chunk of pineapple.†   (source)
  • To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives — such as mine to make your lives miserable once a day.†   (source)
  • Chris I know from hammer-wielding shop fame.†   (source)
  • 1 just kept thinking of his wife, Martha, nearly-poignant-if-not-for-her-feeble-will Martha, forever pale and small-shouldered and smiling, pulling uncomfortably at the strap of her sequined body suit, her tightrope fifty feet up in the air; Hoagland was down on the ground, in a cage, wielding a chair in one hand, a bullwhip in the other.†   (source)
  • Others wield pistols.†   (source)
  • Louisa wielded the hoe blade with the energy of a young person and the skill of an old.†   (source)
  • Of course, it was still important that her hands be too delicate to wield the mop, or the rust-spotted butcher's cleaver.†   (source)
  • Congress Wielding Unauthorized Powers†   (source)
  • So part of the assumption was that people who were more economically advanced would do two things: wield more power and work to consolidate such power.†   (source)
  • I took my hands away, and there was Kunthi waiting by my side with the patience of one who knows what power she wields, patient, like a vulture.†   (source)
  • I tell you that a clever, thoughtful, ambitious hairdresser wields a power beyond the comprehension of most men.†   (source)
  • One minister, shortly after arriving at his hotel, answered a knock on his door and was beaten unconscious by two men wielding baseball bats.†   (source)
  • They saw me take on my Aspect and wield an Attribute.†   (source)
  • Unless—unless (and the second thought caught her up short and made her sit tremblingly on the stairs) this convicted forger, who wielded so much power in the house, should seize upon that moment of thwarted venery as a way to get back at Sophie, work out her frustration by turning love into vengeance, run to the Commandant with some tale of wrongdoing (specifically, that it was the other prisoner who had initiated the seduction), and in this way shatter to bits the framework of Sophie's all-too-unsubstantial future.†   (source)
  • They wielded enormous power—even the power of life and death.†   (source)
  • "She took her stick and went down the street proclaiming and wielding her power," said Cora.†   (source)
  • If it is for this that I have suffered martyrdom, it is sufficient that I stand at quits with those who have wielded the sacrificial knife.†   (source)
  • Thorin wielded his axe with mighty strokes, and nothing seemed to harm him.   (source)
    wielded = swung
  • In battle they wielded heavy two-handed mattocks; but each of them had also a short broad sword at his side and a round shield slung at his back.   (source)
    wielded = held and used
  • With cries of "Moria!" and "Dain, Dain!" the dwarves of the Iron Hills plunged in, wielding their mattocks, upon the other side; and beside them came the men of the Lake with long swords.   (source)
    wielding = holding and using
  • They swarm in among the children, wielding medical kits.†   (source)
  • He jumps up, kicking his chair ten feet behind him and wielding a knife.†   (source)
  • But this garbage-wielding twelve-year-old made me nervous.†   (source)
  • Life is not something you wield, you know?†   (source)
  • We wielded our sickles mechanically, thinking of nothing but finishing our assigned rows.†   (source)
  • Adults think they're wielding power, but really power is wielding them.†   (source)
  • She suddenly understood how to use them, how to shape and wield and move them.†   (source)
  • We had a hammer, but no one to wield it.†   (source)
  • His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.†   (source)
  • It is only right, then, that I should also wield the swordMisery .†   (source)
  • A sword to be wielded until he's too blunt for use, Feyd-Rautha thought.†   (source)
  • Across the lawn, she could see Sean running after Mason Byers, wielding a yellow croquet mallet.†   (source)
  • I assume all the men and women wielding forks are scholars, more masterly than poor Masterji.†   (source)
  • But Ido have power, and I will wield it as I see fit.†   (source)
  • After them came the Night Children with bared fangs, and warlocks wielding flame and iron.†   (source)
  • The Illuminati had always wielded tremendous power through financial means.†   (source)
  • "Meg," I said, "how do you feel about dual-wielding scimitars against this lady?"†   (source)
  • It was a photograph of Kabuo dressed like a bugeisha and wielding a kendo stick in both hands.†   (source)
  • We keep them a secret because of the terrible power that they wield.†   (source)
  • That's a man's sword you have there, and it will take a man to wield her.†   (source)
  • Like my SEAL teammate—his nickname was Casanova—I wielded .300 Win Mag sniper rifle.†   (source)
  • At this school, the only real weapons were words, so I'd become skilled at wielding them.†   (source)
  • I won't ignore the strength of our position; we now wield great authority within the Varden.†   (source)
  • She wrapped her right arm around Eragon's waist, wielding her bloodstained sword with the other.†   (source)
  • If it qualified us to wield evil swords, I was not going put that on my resume.†   (source)
  • Dual-wielding golden blades and summoning karpoi—that was top-shelf stuff.†   (source)
  • He came to battle wielding a samurai's sword against the rifles of an imperial garrison.†   (source)
  • I saw her wield a whip of pure auric energy.†   (source)
  • She steadied herself, wielding the staff like a sword as Cain began circling.†   (source)
  • If the day ever comes when Gendry would rather wield a sword than forge one, send him to me.†   (source)
  • Heartsbane must go to a man strong enough to wield her, and you are not worthy to touch her hilt.†   (source)
  • You have wielded a scythe and plow more often than a sword, though you are accustomed to a bow.†   (source)
  • I can't wield Skofnung, no, but the Chases are descended from the Norse kings of old!†   (source)
  • Did the duke know the power his Champion wielded?†   (source)
  • Sometimes he does this while I wield him.†   (source)
  • Yet the wolf sword actually seemed lighter than the blades he had wielded before.†   (source)
  • I wielded it in my day and passed it on to my son when I took the black.†   (source)
  • As great as I am at wielding magic, I cannot simply force my will upon my giants.†   (source)
  • And this"—he patted his sword—"is Skofnung, the most famous blade ever wielded by a Viking!"†   (source)
  • He remembered the red priest Thoros of Myr, and the flaming sword he had wielded in the melee.†   (source)
  • He gripped the flashlight, wielding it like a short sword, ready to fight.†   (source)
  • Off to the side, she saw Laird standing over the portable grill, wielding a pair of tongs.†   (source)
  • Surely it had flashed on her hand while she'd wielded that dagger against the Elapid demons.†   (source)
  • If you trust me to wield the knife, I can do it here and now.†   (source)
  • A pity that the sword that Stannis wields is cold.†   (source)
  • It was a dark gift, and he wielded it happily.†   (source)
  • Later on, the Romans called it Imperial gold, but I was the first to ever wield such a blade.†   (source)
  • The bravery of my people is greater than any man who wields a sword, Thomas said.†   (source)
  • No one else can wield the weapon of Cuchulain it will be waiting for you when you're ready.†   (source)
  • They wielded long, pale blades of an ancient design in their malformed hands.†   (source)
  • None wielded Lightbringer, the red sword of heroes.†   (source)
  • Julian was with her, of course, wielding his own favorite weapon, the crossbow.†   (source)
  • Now we had escorts, and one rifle-wielding wight had become three.†   (source)
  • No broken blade will harm me, not even one wielded by you.†   (source)
  • Althea stood on top of it clutching a net on a pole, ready to wield it.†   (source)
  • The wish to wield it would be too great, for my strength.†   (source)
  • Certain prison guards relish the power and control that they wield over other human beings.†   (source)
  • What we've done so far is only the beginning of the power we could wield together.†   (source)
  • That woman sure does wield those blue detention slips and threats of essays like weapons.†   (source)
  • Rocks, dead trees, the ground itself will come to my hand and wield its power for me.†   (source)
  • I can still wield a sword and I can still draw a bow.†   (source)
  • And the weapon Max wielded was no mere sword or spear.†   (source)
  • Persons who have been raised to wield power are generally good at it.†   (source)
  • Though the hammer was far too heavy for him to wield, he could clearly feel its incredible balance.†   (source)
  • Nor I. There was a time that I would have given my right hand to wield a sword like that.†   (source)
  • Better to let someone more skilled wield it.†   (source)
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