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  • And at other locations in the district: the railroad, the granary, the power station, and the armory.†   (source)
  • Maybe you should come down to the Armory.†   (source)
  • Dr. Charles A. Leale, a twenty-three-year-old U.S. Army surgeon, was on duty at the Armory Square Hospital in Washington when he heard that President Lincoln and General Grant would be at the performance that night.†   (source)
  • Here was an inventory of the barrio arsenal, most of it stolen from military armories.†   (source)
  • There's this huge armory in Alicante and they took me to some of the places where they make the weapons.†   (source)
  • Our veterinarian told us about a local dog-training club that offered basic obedience classes on Tuesday nights in the parking lot behind the armory.†   (source)
  • OnceDomia abr Wyrda was safely ensconced in his tent, Eragon went to the Varden's armory, a large open pavilion filled with racks of spears, swords, pikes, bows, and crossbows.†   (source)
  • Patrick wondered where Peter Houghton had gotten his armory.†   (source)
  • Now, most of our people can't tell a school from an armory.†   (source)
  • Armory†   (source)
  • They filled so many holding cells in so many station houses they had to open an armory.†   (source)
  • Her son was three months old and she was depressed when a concerned friend dragged her to the Baltimore Armory to hear some middleweight preachers.†   (source)
  • Behind the college was a massive brownstone armory, and a block away, across the street, was a Catholic church with a huge cross on its lawn upon which was the crucified figure of Jesus.†   (source)
  • From this vantage point, the remains of the Horde army looked like a dumping ground for armory, scattered by strong winds and faded by the sun.†   (source)
  • Come jine with us to burst in the armory and get guns and ammunition!†   (source)
  • In a makeshift morgue in the National Guard Armory in Piedmont, volunteers wiped the faces of the dead children before zipping up the body bags.†   (source)
  • The Kubinka Armory.†   (source)
  • By afternoon, we had assembled the weapons for our armory.†   (source)
  • The armory was even better.†   (source)
  • Putting her out of his mind, Max was enduring another Tweedy harangue about those running the armories and storerooms ("Base thieves and charlatans!†   (source)
  • The Secret Service headquarters in the White House is a small windowless office at the north entrance to the West Wing, where an armory of riot guns and Thompson submachine guns provides additional firepower.†   (source)
  • JAN. 24 (UPI) —The body of former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, who died Tuesday in a plane crash, will lie in state today in the 107th Regiment Armory at 66th Street and Park Avenue in New York.†   (source)
  • That evening I walked through the front door of the Armory to play the last game I would ever play for Carolina Military Institute.†   (source)
  • This wasn't digging equipment, this was an armory loaded with weapons!†   (source)
  • On a wide section of quarry floor a corps of bevelers and polishers worked in an orderly crowd not unlike that in armories where military clerks milled about their desks.†   (source)
  • "Welcome to The Shade's armory," Derek said as he walked toward the wall closest to us and pulled off a particularly sharp looking stake.†   (source)
  • The swan-feather sword he wrested from this monster can be seen in the Wentung County Armory in Shantung today.†   (source)
  • See that armory over there?†   (source)
  • He belonged to Troop C because the armory had a basketball court.†   (source)
  • he dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer
  • I spotted Charles Beckendorf from the Hephaestus cabin stoking the forge outside the camp armory.†   (source)
  • I found Meg at the armory, browsing for battle supplies.†   (source)
  • She stopped by the armory and looked out across the valley, toward the top of Half-Blood Hill.†   (source)
  • It started one day when I was playing with some other kids on the tank parked next to the armory.†   (source)
  • Tyson had made the metal parts in the armory's forges.†   (source)
  • From pole to pole, IOI-1 was covered with armories, bunkers, warehouses, and vehicle hangars.†   (source)
  • Barely enough time to get to the armory doors.†   (source)
  • He visited with Ser Aron Santagar in the armory, and they talked of a certain dagger.†   (source)
  • Rachel Dare stumbled from the armory carrying half a dozen, and she ran to resupply him.†   (source)
  • I didn't have a chance to get to the armory, so these are the weapons we have.†   (source)
  • Jon followed the rest back to the armory, walking alone.†   (source)
  • I am scooting backward toward the main duct, away from the armory, when I stop.†   (source)
  • When I reached the armory, I scanned the rack of bows.†   (source)
  • "I'm not sure, but I think he's found the armory."†   (source)
  • As none of it was black, however, Ser Alliser insisted that he reequip himself from the armory.†   (source)
  • "You stay here," he told him at the base of the sentinel tree near the armory wall.†   (source)
  • Dareon dashed inside the armory and returned with a skin of sour red.†   (source)
  • Jon was rolling away from the blows when a booming voice cut through the gloom of the armory.†   (source)
  • One-armed Donal Noye stood in the door of the armory.†   (source)
  • By the time Jon left the armory, it was almost midday.†   (source)
  • "Keep your quarrels out of my armory, or I'll make them my quarrels.†   (source)
  • They trotted through the park and past the National Guard Armory.†   (source)
  • If you have need of a dagger, take one from the armory.†   (source)
  • The Sisters will have surrounded the interior armory with their bodies.†   (source)
  • The shield was the one Ser Jaime had taken from the armory at Harrenhal.†   (source)
  • They worked their way past the supply rooms and the armory.†   (source)
  • The hotel armories take red gold, or they work on a barter system.†   (source)
  • Outside the armory, Ser Endrew Tarth was working with some raw recruits.†   (source)
  • Shimmering purple warriors stood outside the armory, polishing ethereal swords.†   (source)
  • "Your door reminded me of an old shield I once saw in my father's armory?'†   (source)
  • The layout was so familiar—cohort barracks, baths, armory.†   (source)
  • At your door, at the gates, on the armory.†   (source)
  • Jon wrenched free of his friends and retreated to the armory, alone.†   (source)
  • Apparently there is a walk-around gallery above the armory's arena.†   (source)
  • The bike is linked to a World War II generator that Ismael got cheap at an armory liquidation.†   (source)
  • Outside the armory, Mully and the Flea stood shivering at guard.†   (source)
  • The marvelous noise of the Corps had turned the Armory into a vessel of unimaginable tumult.†   (source)
  • He sobbed and swam away toward the armory, where his cousins were fixing spears and swords.†   (source)
  • I head to the armory, unsurprised when I hear her footsteps trailing.†   (source)
  • Carlos has a contact inside that armory-the man in the sling.†   (source)
  • I was one of the last to dress and the Armory was massive and lonely.†   (source)
  • As I watched, the outer wall of the armory exploded.†   (source)
  • We used to have a few in the armory before …†   (source)
  • As he walked toward the armory, Jon chanced to look up and saw Val standing in her tower window.†   (source)
  • As I enter the armory, I run straight into Marcus, who shoves me into the doorframe.†   (source)
  • Sam left his friends and made his way toward the armory, clutching his books to his chest.†   (source)
  • He probably left some guards on the gates and the armory.†   (source)
  • The yard outside the armory was empty, but inside Jon found the king's squire awaiting him.†   (source)
  • Frank glanced at his bow in the corner of the armory.†   (source)
  • He donned them both and made his way to the armory.†   (source)
  • There was naught that Sam could do but watch him stride off toward the armory and the practice yard.†   (source)
  • A small courtyard opened off the armory.†   (source)
  • Get to the armory and tell Lucan that Ser Lyonel notched his sword in practice and needs a new one.†   (source)
  • He glanced over at the armory's entrance.†   (source)
  • "I can get what we need from the school's armory.†   (source)
  • The Jackal had stolen missiles from the Kubinka Armory!†   (source)
  • As she passed the armory, Arya heard the ring of a hammer.†   (source)
  • "JON," Deaf Dick yelled in his thick voice, "the armory."†   (source)
  • Jon's rooms behind the armory were quiet enough, if not especially warm.†   (source)
  • The Commandant turns her gaze to the rest of the armory.†   (source)
  • Krupkin had said there were "several dozen men and women" working at the armory.†   (source)
  • Jon heard her footsteps as she rushed through the armory.†   (source)
  • We duck into the amphitheater's armory, which is packed with men in red leather practice armor.†   (source)
  • If you're right, I can surround the armory with a thousand troops!†   (source)
  • As they walked through the armory, Ghost sniffed at them, his tail upraised and bristling.†   (source)
  • With the exception of Carlos and five unknown people, was the entire armory operating in a vacuum?†   (source)
  • Outside the armory, Iron Emmett was still urging on his charges in the yard.†   (source)
  • He paced from one end of the armory to the other, past the cold forge and back again.†   (source)
  • The last order was to pass the armory, blowing his horn repeatedly.†   (source)
  • It was still dark when Jon returned to his chambers behind the armory.†   (source)
  • He means to plunder our armory, Jon realized.†   (source)
  • By then they had reached the armory, such as it was.†   (source)
  • Horse and Rory had replaced Fulk and Mully at the armory door with the change of watch.†   (source)
  • Malo, do the same with the maester's tower and the armory.†   (source)
  • I want the flame-thrower, a bazooka, a few grenades, and the heaviest gun in that armory.†   (source)
  • Tell him that if he has any problems to look you up in the armory.†   (source)
  • William C. Burt died right on the armory floor in the middle of a push-up.†   (source)
  • The blacksmith god had always worked with Cyclopes in his forges, so Beckendorf took Tyson down to the armory to teach him metalworking.†   (source)
  • I wanted to ask what kind of summer camp had an armory, but there was too much else to think about, so the tour continued.†   (source)
  • Like the Antiques Show at the Armory?†   (source)
  • Most of the girls my age spent their afternoons sitting on the brick wall surrounding the armory, combing their hair and touching up their lip gloss and pretending to get all indignant but secretly loving it if a crewcut reservist wolf-whistled at them.†   (source)
  • Then it rolled forward on its tank treads, across the bunker floor, to the armory cage at its opposite end.†   (source)
  • I ran toward the armory.†   (source)
  • I rode down four levels to my armory, a massive vault filled with storage shelves, display cases, and weapon racks.†   (source)
  • As it exited the armory, one antimatter friction-induction bomb was subtracted from the Sixers' computerized inventory.†   (source)
  • It also occurs to me that being in an armory full of green bombs—one of which can level a square mile—while a dozen or so of their closest friends are being set off upstairs might not be such a good idea.†   (source)
  • Cassie, it's the armory.†   (source)
  • He walked heavily toward the armory.†   (source)
  • Through the eye slit of his helm, he beheld the fattest boy he had ever seen standing in the door of the armory.†   (source)
  • As he stood outside the armory looking up, Jon felt almost as overwhelmed as he had that day on the kings-road, when he'd seen it for the first time.†   (source)
  • Jon left them there arguing as he returned to the armory, hung up his sword, and stripped off his battered armor.†   (source)
  • There, across the yard, at the door of the armory, do you see the boy squatting by the steps honing a sword with an oilstone?†   (source)
  • The howling chased him all the way up the tree, until finally he jumped off onto the armory roof and out of sight.†   (source)
  • The armory doors were open, and Bran glimpsed Mikken at his forge, his hammer ringing as sweat dripped off his bare chest.†   (source)
  • It was a short walk to the armory.†   (source)
  • The best way was to start from the godswood, shinny up the tall sentinel, and cross over the armory and the guards hall, leaping roof to roof, barefoot so the guards wouldn't hear you overhead.†   (source)
  • He liked the birds: the crows in the broken tower, the tiny little sparrows that nested in cracks between the stones, the ancient owl that slept in the dusty loft above the old armory.†   (source)
  • Jon cherished the rare afternoons when he was sent out with Ghost ranging at his side to bring back game for the Lord Commander's table, but for every day spent hunting, he gave a dozen to Donal Noye in the armory, spinning the whetstone while the one-armed smith sharpened axes grown dull from use, or pumping the bellows as Noye hammered out a new sword.†   (source)
  • The glow was coming from the reflection of several lamps on the scalloped curves, points, and edges of an armory the likes of which Max had never seen.†   (source)
  • I wouldguess that when we breached the city walls, Lord Bradburn's courage failed him and he ordered Niemen brought from his armory in an attempt to stop you and Saphira.†   (source)
  • He wears an army uniform, as befitting a doctor who currently works in the Wounded Commissioned Officers' Ward at the U.S. Army's General Hospital in nearby Armory Square.†   (source)
  • They need you in the armory?†   (source)
  • With Stannis in the King's Tower and the Lord Commander's Tower burned to a shell, Jon had established himself in Donal Noye's modest rooms behind the armory.†   (source)
  • The big dude looked pretty odd in his bedsheet toga, with his gray pullover hoodie and jeans, and a bow and quiver from the ship's armory slung over his shoulder.†   (source)
  • He did not reach the armory there—†   (source)
  • "The Armory, the Gasworks, 'Conley's Patch,' and Wells Street as far north as Monroe were all on fire.†   (source)
  • He passed the armory, where a thousand well oiled rifles and sparkling bayonets waited in symmetrical rows.†   (source)
  • Two weeks ago, after one of the calls, Lavar told Barbara about his father's invitation to the concertsomething called the Budweiser Concert Series at the D.C. Armory in late July, featuring three of Cedric's favorite acts: Patti LaBelle, TLC, and Mary J. Blige.†   (source)
  • We started with breakfast before Derek brought the girls and me to the armory to train to defend ourselves against vampires.†   (source)
  • He let her go just as the Portal gave one last whirl and slammed closed, disappearing into the blank wall of the armory.†   (source)
  • Put them in an armory on Park Avenue.†   (source)
  • The Armory smelled of loss and passage and absent crowds; it shimmered with memories of old forgotten games and the death of athletes.†   (source)
  • He hates being stuck in the armory.†   (source)
  • Isabelle could see Jia standing in the distance, near the entrance to the armory, waiting for the last of them to come inside.†   (source)
  • "Go to the armory," Reyna told him.†   (source)
  • Two guards in black cloaks and iron halfhelms stood by the doors of the armory, leaning on their spears.†   (source)
  • Farther south were the strawberry fields, the armory, and the four-story Big House with its sky blue paint job and its bronze eagle weathervane.†   (source)
  • "You didn't get into the armory.†   (source)
  • Strangers could garner some glimpse of the plebe system's violent nature by sitting in the Armory and listening to the Corps's voice.†   (source)
  • There were dark shapes slipping around the armory, backs against the stone, but he could not see them well enough to waste an arrow.†   (source)
  • It was more a picture than a proper coat of arms, and the sight of it took her back through the long years, to the cool dark of her father's armory.†   (source)
  • I zoomed in on the armory, where my brother and some other Cyclopes were on lunch break, eating from huge jars of Skippy extra-chunky peanut butter (and don't ask me how it tasted underwater, because I don't want to know).†   (source)
  • Arya peeked at them all, but they were never anything good, just stupid stuff sending this cart to the granary and that one to the armory.†   (source)
  • Then he flung the door open and we burst into the Armory, princes of the sudden light, flawed but game champions of the Corps of Cadets.†   (source)
  • Shields, spears, and quivers of arrows hung along one wall—almost as many as in the Camp Jupiter armory.†   (source)
  • Nephilim in the service of the Gard were darting back and forth to the open door of the armory, adding weapons to a pile of swords, seraph blades, axes, and maces heaped by the side of the Portal.†   (source)
  • Sam did not recall leaving the armory.†   (source)
  • Donal Noye stood in the door of his armory, bare-chested under a leather apron, the stump of his left arm uncovered for once.†   (source)
  • Jia was letting through only those who were completely outfitted in gear, but quite a few were very young or very old, and many had come unarmed and were simply seizing up weapons from the pile provided by the armory, before passing through.†   (source)
  • After the incident at the river, Reyna had sent Frank to the armory, which had given him way too much time to think.†   (source)
  • I was surprised to see it stop, turn around, and come back in the opposite direction, pass us by, then drive past the military science building and disappear behind the Armory.†   (source)
  • Minutes later, Helene and I join the Senior Skulls lining up outside the amphitheater's entrance, and the armory brawl is forgotten.†   (source)
  • We'll empty the armory and move what stores we can to the top of the Wall, and make our stand around the gate."†   (source)
  • Mikken had given him a rusty old visorless helm from the armory, but Bran seldom troubled to wear it.†   (source)
  • Figures in Roman armor emerged from the barracks, the principia, the armory, and the canteen, but they weren't human.†   (source)
  • The Lord Commander's Tower had been gutted by fire, and Stannis Baratheon had claimed the King's Tower for his own residence, so Jon Snow had established himself in Donal Noye's modest quarters behind the armory.†   (source)
  • He hung his mail and plate inside the armory, returned to his own cell, discarded his sweat-stained clothes, and donned a fresh set of blacks.†   (source)
  • Helene strolls up behind us, flashing a smile at Dex and Faris and throwing a careless arm around my shoulders as we enter the armory.†   (source)
  • His eyes were dark and troubled as they moved past me toward the huge, illuminated silhouettes of the barracks, toward the baseball field, toward the Armory.†   (source)
  • He had emptied the armory to put good steel in their hands; big double-bladed axes, razor-sharp daggers, longswords, maces, spiked morningstars.†   (source)
  • Nothing has ever affected me in that same profoundly visceral way as the salutation of the Corps when I broke free from the steamy enclave of the locker room into the blue-hazed, cavernous, light-filtered center of the Armory.†   (source)
  • He's in the armory doing inventory.†   (source)
  • But with Mikken slain and the ironmen guarding the armory, good steel had been hard to resist, even if it meant grave-robbing.†   (source)
  • When we arrive at the armory, students spill out the front doors, and Faris and Dex disappear into the crush.†   (source)
  • He swiveled, cursing, and loosed a shaft at the men on the armory roof instead, but he missed them as well.†   (source)
  • "In a few moments," Cain says, "you will exit this armory and find yourself on the amphitheater field.†   (source)
  • If a team played us in the Armory, we were ten points better than we were on the road and not because we automatically played better at home but because our skills merged with the fury of the Corps in full cry.†   (source)
  • The doors of the armory flew open.†   (source)
  • The armory adjoined the castle smithy, a long high-roofed tunnel of a building with twenty forges built into its walls and long stone water troughs for tempering the steel.†   (source)
  • She had come from the armory's inner staging area, where the decibel level of the music was overpowering.†   (source)
  • When we are halfway to the armory, Hel finally notices my silence, taking in the rumpled clothing, the bloodshot eyes.†   (source)
  • The armory and the forge still stood, however, though cobwebs, rats, and dust had taken the places of blades, bellows, and anvil.†   (source)
  • We lapped the parade ground twice, circled the armory, passed the yacht basin, crossed the baseball field, and halted finally at the farthest perimeter of the campus by the edge of the salt marsh, which separated the grounds of the Institute from the Ashley River.†   (source)
  • Weese used Arya to run messages, draw water, and fetch food, and sometimes to serve at table in the Barracks Hall above the armory, where the men-at-arms took their meals.†   (source)
  • "The crowd's coming out of the armory-"†   (source)
  • There was smoke rising from the chimney of the armory, though; only a wisp, almost invisible against the grey northern sky, but it was enough.†   (source)
  • …with every comfort: feather mattress and sleeping furs, a wood-and-copper tub large enough for two, braziers to keep off the night's chill, slung leather camp chairs, a writing table with quills and inkpot, bowls of peaches, plums, and pears, a flagon of wine with a set of matched silver cups, cedar chests packed full of Renly's clothing, books, maps, game boards, a high harp, a tall bow and a quiver of arrows, a pair of red-tailed hunting hawks, a vertible armory of fine weapons.†   (source)
  • I barely hear her over the ceaseless beating of the drums, which are ordering all graduates to the armory to pick up our ceremonials—the armor of a full Mask.†   (source)
  • Give me all the firepower I need from this trunk of yours and let me off in the grass just before the armory.†   (source)
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