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  • The additional electronic security in this chamber always wrought havoc with the guards' communications.†   (source)
  • The long-suffering Merrills appeared not to possess the imaginative capacity to know what Owen meant; it was a question that raised havoc with Mr. Merrill's usually slight stutter.†   (source)
  • It would have caused financial havoc.†   (source)
  • Wonderlanders eager for havoc ran through the streets, breaking windows and anything that could even remotely serve as a reflective surface.†   (source)
  • For me, the prank was just a response to a previous prank, just a golden opportunity to, as the Colonel said, wreak a little havoc.†   (source)
  • "My Queen," said the dark-haired woman, "refers to your so-called blue fever that has wreaked such havoc on your citizens.†   (source)
  • Crazy Tom brought his two surviving fighters in through the gap and caused havoc with the enemy, and though his ships and Shen's as well were finally destroyed, Fly Molo was able to mop up and complete the victory.†   (source)
  • My eyes reverted, fast, and strayed over the havoc until I saw it again, about fifteen feet away, half buried in a pile of trash: just a hint of a label, familiar shade of cold-case blue.†   (source)
  • " Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much havoc.†   (source)
  • Sneak around shielded, reclaim some fairy weaponry, then cause havoc until Fowl was forced to release her.†   (source)
  • It wrecked havoc on my insides.†   (source)
  • You'd hear the rounds coming past you in the air—errrrrrrrrr—then you'd hear the echo—erhrhrrhrh, followed closely by secondary explosions and whatever other havoc the bullets caused.†   (source)
  • He hangs around the Time Tombs waiting to come out and wreak havoc when it's mankind's time to join the dodo and the gorilla and the sperm whale on the extinction Hit Parade list.†   (source)
  • His eyes burned with sincerity for a protracted moment — playing havoc with the rhythm of my heart — and then turned playful.†   (source)
  • Taylor ate him alive, and seemed to take special pleasure in the havoc he created inside the mind of Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski.†   (source)
  • And he and his men had been wreaking havoc on U.S. troops, blowing stuff up all over the place.†   (source)
  • The storms always raged across Florida, wreaking havoc, and then died somewhere overland or in the Gulf.†   (source)
  • The school informed my parents I had been wreaking havoc with a number of other young boys.†   (source)
  • Earth's only satellite, the moon, will explode on a humid night in July , playing havoc with tides and raining dirt and debris over much of our plan et.†   (source)
  • Mack shrugged, donned his gloves, and began raking into piles the havoc she was wreaking.†   (source)
  • As a boy he had seen the havoc they had wreaked in the house of Lazara Conde, a schoolteacher who dared to rebuff the animes, and he had seen the watery trail of glass in the street and the mountain of stones they had thrown at her windows for three days and three nights.†   (source)
  • The old channels cannot contain it and in its search for new ones there seems to be growing havoc and destruction along its banks.†   (source)
  • He had no idea what Vanger wanted, but after the past twelve months of havoc with Wennerström he needed a precise record of all strange occurrences anywhere near him, and an unlooked-for invitation to Hedestad came into that category.†   (source)
  • She had been looking forward to tipping a long one while she read a paper novel and waited for Tommy-in spite of the havoc the root beers raised with her complexion, she was hooked.†   (source)
  • If they do, they will sweep over these ramparts like a storm-driven wave and wreak untold havoc in our midst, among the tents, where we cannot maneuver effectively.†   (source)
  • Both the altitude of Tehran and the metric units on the oven controls played havoc with my baking abilities.†   (source)
  • "You have committed the following crimes," he continued: "having a dog with an unauthorized alarm, sowing confusion, upsetting the applecart, wreaking havoc, and mincing words."†   (source)
  • Then we'll have enough strength to break free of our tomb and wreak havoc upon Cape Cod.†   (source)
  • Blackcliff is pure havoc, worse than I could have imagined.†   (source)
  • Cry Havoc!†   (source)
  • But now she had emerged into a bleak winter world where Uncle Pros was not, where Johnnie was powerless, and where she had been allowed by an unkind Providence to work havoc with her own life and the lives of her little ones; and her illness was as the tears of the girl with a shattered toy.†   (source)
  • Kicking at the sand at Bower's Point, Marcus knew he should be enjoying the havoc he'd wreaked the previous evening.†   (source)
  • A twenty-knot surface wind can play havoc with sonar, even that deep.†   (source)
  • Wreaks havoc on my complexion.†   (source)
  • Heavier mines would wreak havoc with tanks making their way inland.†   (source)
  • We stopped eventually (even though it really infuriated Slim and Hawkeye) because it was terribly hot and you couldn't see where you were going and it played havoc with your hair.†   (source)
  • She had all her teeth and was just beginning to open the big wardrobes and wreak havoc on their contents when the family decided to spend the summer at Tres Marias, a place Clara had only heard about.†   (source)
  • This was his home, and his dreams of Bangkok were wreaking havoc here.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he was trying too hard, or perhaps his foot had been reinjured, or maybe sun or shadows played havoc upon his batting eye.†   (source)
  • For as long as it held, Lord Howe's ships had no chance to "get up" where they could wreak havoc.†   (source)
  • Believe me, this whole thing's gonna blow up in our faces—these kids are gonna grow up, go on a rampage, wreak havoc on everything and everyone, contaminate themselves with every substance known to man, whack their kids as they were; then at the end of the day, when they face the judge, these people will either blame their deeds on society or plead that they were abused as kids, which of course made them the way they were.†   (source)
  • She slipped her legs quietly from the sleeping bag and felt again the havoc done to her muscles by the riding.†   (source)
  • The folk he'd made were evil, they'd gone all wrong, they were wreaking havoc in the world.†   (source)
  • It was capable of wreaking unimaginable havoc unless it could be controlled.†   (source)
  • A small garrison in Moat Cailin can play havoc with any army coming up the causeway, but the ruins are vulnerable from the north and east.†   (source)
  • He found it hard to suppress a howl of delight as he surveyed the havoc—/ made this happen—and saw Brother Eugene's trembling chin and horror-stricken expression.†   (source)
  • We'll go out and see what havoc we've wreaked.†   (source)
  • No, no, but the sudden disappearance of a major supply wrought havoc in the entire oil market.†   (source)
  • He hadn't had an easy moment since the day they'd started out of L.A. Every day that went by only tightened his nerves and played havoc with his libido.†   (source)
  • I saw, I touched, I wooed, rarely was the answer No. The honour of my place, the veneration I Received in the eye of man or woman Prospered my suit and Played havoc with my sleeping hours.†   (source)
  • He and his foul folk are making havoc now.†   (source)
  • They came in one violent full-throated roar of havoc.†   (source)
  • Saint Dane promised to wreak havoc with all the territories in his quest to rule Halla.†   (source)
  • I fear that Ann's nerves will play havoc with her illusion and her singing.†   (source)
  • They coaxed the sleeper to the bar and my father managed to remember all the Cambridge names, recalling even the exploits of the notorious Sharron K——, who caused havoc with the population of three colleges.†   (source)
  • The sap of his outermost capillaries plays havoc with the earth, for the way the sap exits in lines and curves is the scythe of fate.†   (source)
  • When Jordan was two years old, with Connie toddling around after him at ten months, both of them spreading havoc in that tiny northside apartment.†   (source)
  • "Ah little fishes, what trouble you bring," Regis muttered softly, pondering the irony of the havoc the silvery fish wreaked on the lives of the greedy people of Ten-Towns.†   (source)
  • The lump of shrapnel had been discriminating in the havoc it had wreaked, damaging bone and tissue but sparing major blood vessels.†   (source)
  • Trappers cannot bear them, for wolves not only compete for caribou but can wreak havoc with a trapline, springing the light traps used for foxes without getting caught themselves.†   (source)
  • For the physicists could only have ruined the Earth: the paraphysicists could have spread havoc to the stars.†   (source)
  • Had a typhoon swept through the Pink Palace, there could not have been a more horrendous effect of havoc and shambles.†   (source)
  • I asked you, if you saw my letter, should we put in all new meters, all the same kind, would that be justified, or would it be cheaper in the long run to reevaluate the whole parking system, what with urban renewal making havoc of what we got?†   (source)
  • This one did dance upon the tables, causing much havoc, and his musical accompaniment was insufficient.†   (source)
  • All this was counter to the intentions of the partisan command, working havoc with the plan made by Liberius.†   (source)
  • Dinner was carried in, but he would not dine with me until I would undo that day's havoc in the pigsty.†   (source)
  • It would have been easy, for example, to have gone over Morningside Park on the west side or to have crossed the Grand Central railroad tracks at 125th Street on the east side, to wreak havoc in white neighborhoods.†   (source)
  • As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.   (source)
  • The infection spread into the town of Boston, and made much havoc there.   (source)
  • Cry, "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war.   (source)
  • See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc;   (source)
  • He has now and then been a sad flirt, and cared very little for the havoc he might be making in young ladies' affections.   (source)
  • Isn't he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem...   (source)
  • Peter sprang a couple of yards in the air, and then delivered a war-whoop and set off round and round the room, banging against furniture, upsetting flower-pots, and making general havoc.   (source)
  • You don't need too many committed to martyrdom to wreak havoc.   (source)
  • The havoc in international trade will ripple through the economy.
  • Since they have moved into the open, they have been wreaking havoc.†   (source)
  • Kaheleha took his spirit army and wreaked havoc on the intruders.†   (source)
  • It was the drought, started in 1998, in its second year now, that was wreaking havoc everywhere.†   (source)
  • I looked out at the havoc around me and felt the most terrible sadness.†   (source)
  • You are playing havoc with our lives and our culture.†   (source)
  • A HAVOC OF SCRAP AND RUBBLE littered the alley.†   (source)
  • We're just, you know, wreaking a little havoc."†   (source)
  • He'd created total havoc; and this year he was back, bigger and better.†   (source)
  • My eyes kept returning to a blue kite that had been wreaking havoc for the last hour.†   (source)
  • But he was too busy causing traffic havoc.†   (source)
  • "A sneeze can wreak havoc on the fringe," said Tweedy knowingly.†   (source)
  • We lay there in absolute silence listening to the havoc outside on the galleries.†   (source)
  • In 1988, Hurricane Gilberto wreaked havoc upon this city.†   (source)
  • It's playing havoc with our entire economy.†   (source)
  • Havoc, blood, and fury are her children, and she would see them prosper.†   (source)
  • Rudra is there, and his arrows work much havoc.†   (source)
  • Wreaked havoc and mayhem.†   (source)
  • 'You stationed lookouts around my office and you sent this buffoon,' she nodded at Ron — Malfoy laughed even louder — 'to tell me the poltergeist was wreaking havoc in the Transfiguration department when I knew perfectly well that he was busy smearing ink on the eyepieces of all the school telescopes —Mr Filch having just informed me so.†   (source)
  • She looked through the ill-fitting drawers, at the mismatched spoons and knives, the colander and chipped, wooden spatulas, these would-be instruments of her new daily life, all of it reminding her of the havoc that had struck her life, making her feel uprooted, displaced, like an intruder on someone else's life.†   (source)
  • In any case, this plot would put her in no danger at all from us, if she sits safely behind and lets the newborns wreak their havoc here.†   (source)
  • We are havoc.†   (source)
  • Girls got into it too, ripping the blouses of the prim and proper "society" girls and wreaking havoc in the gym area.†   (source)
  • I remember Boris grousing as a child, one afternoon at his house when we had got off on the vaguely metaphysical subject of our mothers: why they — angels, goddesses—had to die? while our awful fathers thrived, and boozed, and sprawled, and muddled on, and continued to stumble about and wreak havoc, in seemingly indefatigable health?†   (source)
  • But that same day they encountered another boat, with a cargo of cattle for Jamaica, and were informed that the vessel with the plague flag was carrying two people sick with cholera, and that the epidemic was wreaking havoc along the portion of the river they still had to travel.†   (source)
  • My father does not respond well to being pushed and remained firm even though it was clear that by now he was creating havoc.†   (source)
  • In 1985 and 1986, they were beaten badly by the New York Giants, and in both games Lawrence Taylor wreaked havoc.†   (source)
  • Trucks rumbled by and an occasional lowrider, sweet salsa sounds radiating from outside speakers; I jumped to the beat inside the trench coat as a breeze played havoc with my insides.†   (source)
  • When Lemming hit the road in 2004, he knew he would find big linebackers, and small defensive ends, whose chief future use would be to wreak havoc with the minds and bodies of quarterbacks.†   (source)
  • While his doubles played havoc with the terrified engineers, Max slipped silently behind a machine from which he might ambush the largest group.†   (source)
  • Stay here with the rest of the soldiers and use the ballistae to wreak what havoc you can, keep theDragon Wing from being boarded, and guard our families with your lives.†   (source)
  • The scientists were all talking as though the virus wouldn't wreak havoc for another eighteen days, but really it could be less.†   (source)
  • The story Jeb had told me about one of their captives–the man who had simply collapsed, leaving no external evidence on the outside of the havoc wreaked inside his skull–haunted my thoughts.†   (source)
  • These doubts could play havoc with the mind, and Max chafed at the very idea he might fall victim to the same misgivings.†   (source)
  • He could not see the rest of the elves, but he could sense their presence on the other side of Nasuada's red pavilion, which stood in the center of the havoc.†   (source)
  • It would play havoc with Joffrey's claim to the crown, to be sure, but in the end it had been swords that had won the Iron Throne for Robert, and swords could keep Joffrey there as well, regardless of whose seed he was.†   (source)
  • But the servant who stood by and saw the havoc, declared solemnly that he could not retain the title, as the laws decreed it to chance, and not to force.†   (source)
  • She felt sometimes that their memories wreaked havoc with their grieving, for despite the heroism that marked their ordeal, their reminiscences were not always rosy.†   (source)
  • It is a color reproduction of a painting crowded with medieval figures who are dying or dead—a landscape of visionary havoc and ruin.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes and thought of Rosa: her perfect face, her milky skin, her mermaid hair, her honeyed eyes that caused such havoc, her hands clasping the mother-of-pearl rosary, her nuptial flower crown.†   (source)
  • I f all went as planned, the maneuver would look like little more than a classic turning of the enemy's flank, but it took no great stretch of imagination to picture the unforeseen circumstances, the vagaries of chance that could play havoc.†   (source)
  • Their mission was simple; since Nasuada and King Orrin had withdrawn the bulk of their forces from Surda, Galbatorix had apparently decided to take advantage of their absence and wreak havoc throughout the defenseless country, sacking towns and villages and burning the crops needed to sustain the invasion of the Empire.†   (source)
  • In the short time the beast had been active, it had earned quite a respectable reputation for havoc and terror.†   (source)
  • You'd think I'd get used to the ongoing nightmare that was my life, but I was actually pathetically surprised that those demonoids from the School could continue to wreak havoc on me from so far away, so long ago.†   (source)
  • If a magician full of ambition but lacking scruples got hold of it, he or she could wreak an incredible amount of havoc.†   (source)
  • And I—I, Mr. McLean, should have been an English king with all the wenches of England at my beck and call, with an army of bandy-legged knights imploring me to raise a fleet to cross the Channel and wreak havoc along the French coast.†   (source)
  • Look at the havoc Galbatorix wrought.†   (source)
  • Untold havoc?†   (source)
  • If you insist upon pursuing it, you will end up destroying everything we have won today, and you will have none to blame but yourself for the havoc that will follow.†   (source)
  • Havoc has left its traces everywhere.†   (source)
  • Havoc was there with her mouth wide open.†   (source)
  • Terrific rams of darkness collided; out of their shock space toppled into havoc.†   (source)
  • The havoc wrought by him is described in mythology and fairy tale as being universal throughout his domain.†   (source)
  • The sight of the shipshape launch against the background of the havoc across the river; the unruffled young man in his neat uniform; above all, the promise of medical help — the first word of possible succour anyone had heard in nearly twelve awful hours — cheered the people in the park tremendously.†   (source)
  • Brand and Cooke stood stock-still, their eyes fastened upon each other, their pointed weapons raised; but they were dimly aware of the havoc that churned about them.†   (source)
  • In the west clearing toward sunset, clouds were a silver havoc, their light in the rugged stone frame of the street, sombre and silver.†   (source)
  • Yet after a moment of apparent havoc, the creative value of the new factor comes to view, and the world takes shape again in unsuspected glory.†   (source)
  • You can't imagine how your air up here plays havoc with me.†   (source)
  • "It is terrible, this havoc among the flowers," he remarked.†   (source)
  • The musketry sounded in long irregular surges that played havoc with his ears.†   (source)
  • But my heart smote me when we climbed aboard and looked at the havoc he had done.†   (source)
  • The havoc was wrought in that household.†   (source)
  • Beyond all else she had hoped to see the sad fixed hopelessness, the havoc, gone from his face.†   (source)
  • He played havoc among the nine-pins, and won half a crown, which restored him to solvency.†   (source)
  • Miserable food, ill-timed and greedily eaten, had played havoc with bone and muscle.†   (source)
  • Strange how the old vanity held her back until something of the havoc in her face should be gone!†   (source)
  • He saw nothing of the havoc wrought in her.†   (source)
  • That wonderful love had wrought transformation in her—and now havoc.†   (source)
  • The havoc that months had previously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours.†   (source)
  • The havoc continued an hour and a half, and unimaginable was the destruction of substantials.†   (source)
  • …as well as by the desperate position in which he found himself; but what was most remarkable of all was this, that while he planned treacherous alliances, had already settled in his own mind the fate of the white man, and intrigued in an overbearing, offhand manner with Kassim, one could perceive that what he had really desired, almost in spite of himself, was to play havoc with that jungle town which had defied him, to see it strewn over with corpses and enveloped in flames.†   (source)
  • Peter sprang a couple of yards in the air, and then delivered a war-whoop and set off round and round the room, banging against furniture, upsetting flower-pots, and making general havoc.†   (source)
  • She plunged into camp, drove Shefford flying for his life, knocked down two of the burros, and played havoc with the unstrapped packs.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, her strange coming into his life had played havoc, the extent of which he had only begun to realize.†   (source)
  • "Nonsense," said Diana, whose black eyes and glossy tresses had played such havoc with the hearts of Avonlea schoolboys that her name figured on the porch walls in half a dozen take-notices.†   (source)
  • "For shame, Sir Andrew," she said, shaking her head with a playful sigh, "making havoc in the heart of some impressionable duchess, whilst conquering the affections of my sweet little Suzanne.†   (source)
  • Especially did they enjoy the havoc worked amongst the newcomers' dogs by White Fang and his disreputable gang.†   (source)
  • Fifty years ago a series of great fires took place, which made terrible havoc on five separate occasions.†   (source)
  • When White Fang was nearly five years old, Grey Beaver took him on another great journey, and long remembered was the havoc he worked amongst the dogs of the many villages along the Mackenzie, across the Rockies, and down the Porcupine to the Yukon.†   (source)
  • Yet such was her intensity and stress at times, especially in the darkness of waking hours, that jealousy overcame her and insidiously worked its havoc.†   (source)
  • It seemed that the Jeroboam had not long left home, when upon speaking a whale-ship, her people were reliably apprised of the existence of Moby Dick, and the havoc he had made.†   (source)
  • This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of salvation, and at times has even seemed about to make them ashamed of themselves.†   (source)
  • Observe the countenance of that woodchopper, while he exults in presenting a larger fish than common to my cousin sheriff; and see, Louisa, how hand some and considerate my dear father looks, by the light of that fire, where he stands viewing the havoc of the game.†   (source)
  • He knew the havoc one galley could play in a broad sea like the Mediterranean, and the difficulty of finding and overhauling her; he knew, also, how those very circumstances would enhance the service and glory if, at one blow, he could put a finish to the whole piratical array.†   (source)
  • 'They became so unbearable, that at last we fired a few shots right and left among them; several bit the dust, the rest fled, and we continued our way in peace to Prospect Hill, but only to discover the havoc the wretches had made there.†   (source)
  • He has now and then been a sad flirt, and cared very little for the havoc he might be making in young ladies' affections.†   (source)
  • The inhabitants of that fair portion of the Western Hemisphere seem obstinately bent on pursuing the work of inward havoc.†   (source)
  • To say the truth to you, Major Duncan, this girl is making as much havoc in the garrison as the French did before Ty: I never witnessed so general a rout in so short a time!†   (source)
  • She began to 'help' my mother next morning, and was in and out of the store-closet all day, putting things to rights, and making havoc in the old arrangements.†   (source)
  • But as perhaps fifty of these whale-bone whales are harpooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has already very seriously diminished their battalions.†   (source)
  • Their divers municipal laws appeared to me to be a means of restraining the ambition of the citizens within a narrow sphere, and of turning those same passions which might have worked havoc in the State, to the good of the township or the parish.†   (source)
  • New Zealand Tom and Don Miguel, after at various times creating great havoc among the boats of different vessels, were finally gone in quest of, systematically hunted out, chased and killed by valiant whaling captains, who heaved up their anchors with that express object as much in view, as in setting out through the Narragansett Woods, Captain Butler of old had it in his mind to capture that notorious murderous savage Annawon, the headmost warrior of the Indian King Philip.†   (source)
  • …at the mast-heads of the whaleships, now penetrating even through Behring's straits, and into the remotest secret drawers and lockers of the world; and the thousand harpoons and lances darted along all continental coasts; the moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he must not at last be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale, like the last man, smoke his last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the final puff.†   (source)
  • Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.†   (source)
  • But Akhilleus all that time wrought havoc with the Trojans and their horses.†   (source)
  • Aineias, observing all the havoc this man made amid the Trojan ranks, moved up the line of battle and along the clash of spears, in search of Pandaros.†   (source)
  • Rouse yourself, if even at this hour you'll pitch in for the Akhaians and deliver them from Trojan havoc.†   (source)
  • I'll take on this one, and learn what man he is that has the power to do such havoc as he has done among us, cutting down so many, and such good men.†   (source)
  • These Hektor faced in battle; he performed prodigies in spearmanship and chariot-handling, making havoc in the young men's ranks.†   (source)
  • If Zeus in thunder will make havoc of Akhaians, if he is hot in the Trojans' cause, by heaven, I wish this fight were over soon— the Akhaians wiped out, distant far from Argos, winning no glory!†   (source)
  • The beast reared in agony, for the point entered his brain, and round and round he floundered, fixed by the bronze point, making havoc among the horses.†   (source)
  • In my lifetime I have not seen or heard of one man doing in a day's action what Hektor did to the Akhaian army— one man, son of neither god nor goddess, in one day's action—but for years to come that havoc will be felt among the Argives.†   (source)
  • When the great master of pursuit, Akhilleus, had the body stripped, he stood among them, saying swiftly: "Friends, my lords and captains of Argives, now that the gods at last have let me bring to earth this man who wrought havoc among us—more than all the rest— come, we'll offer battle around the city, to learn the intentions of the Trojans now.†   (source)
  • Arming Patroklos in his own war-gear, he sent him with his people into battle. i All day long, around the Skaian Gates, they fought, and would have won the city, too, had not Apollo, seeing the brave son of Menoitios wreaking havoc on the Trojans, killed him in action, and then given Hektor the honor of that deed.†   (source)
  • All the world saying, for aught they knew, the big wind of last February a year that did havoc the land so pitifully a small thing beside this barrenness.†   (source)
  • Go, and speed; Havoc, and spoil, and ruin, are my gain.†   (source)
  • He awoke, roused himself up, shook himself and stretched his lazy limbs, and seeing the havoc the pigs had made with his stores he cursed the drove, and more besides.†   (source)
  • And, indeed, I was glad not to have been a spectator of the havoc they made, because I am confident it would have sensibly touched me, by bringing former passages into my mind, which I would rather have forgot.†   (source)
  • Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends, But they shall find, awak'd in such a kind, Both strength of limb and policy of mind, Ability in means and choice of friends, To quit me of them throughly.†   (source)
  • These things, indeed, you have articulate, Proclaim'd at market-crosses, read in churches, To face the garment of rebellion With some fine colour that may please the eye Of fickle changelings and poor discontents, Which gape and rub the elbow at the news Of hurlyburly innovation: And never yet did insurrection want Such water-colours to impaint his cause; Nor moody beggars, starving for a time Of pellmell havoc and confusion.†   (source)
  • Who hath made this havoc with them?†   (source)
  • This quarry cries on havoc.†   (source)
  • However they ventured; when one of the men taking the end of a tow-line in one hand, and keeping our boat between him and our adversaries, swam to us, and slipping our cables, they towed us, out of reach of their arrows, and quickly after a broadside was given them from the ship, which made a most dreadful havoc among them.†   (source)
  • At the first house above mentioned, after the boatswain had slain two with his pole-ax, he threw a hand-granade into the house, which bursting, made a terrible havoc, killing and wounding most of them; and their king and most of his train, who were then in that house, fell victims to their fury, every creature of them being either smothered or burnt.†   (source)
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