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  • The horde rolls forward, raising a dark dust cloud as it moves; this cloud flies over it like a flag.†   (source)
  • We are not the barbarian hordes descending upon Rome and destroying all that is fine out of ignorance and envy.†   (source)
  • All three Kindly Ones were after them, along with a horde of hellhounds.†   (source)
  • It would feed a horde.†   (source)
  • A horde of television cameras and journalists spilled out of the crowded courtroom.†   (source)
  • Open a regular store for the hordes of people who are going to settle at this end of the city any day now.†   (source)
  • Loud creaks and groans announced a whole horde of Gladers running to the first floor.†   (source)
  • The Rusties had been stuck down in these streets like a horde of rats trapped in a burning maze.†   (source)
  • They pulled the cart from the brush with which they'd covered it and he raised it up and piled the blankets in and the coats and they pushed on out to the road and stood looking where the last of that ragged horde seemed to hang like an afterimage in the disturbed air.†   (source)
  • And he was right — for the second time, Lynch hit the ground with tremendous force and was immediately stampeded by a horde of angry veela.†   (source)
  • Hordes of workmen still arrived every morning, but almost all of them worked indoors now.†   (source)
  • A demonic horde.†   (source)
  • Hordes of people were swarming around, putting the last touches on the set—which now held rows of tiered seating for the Selected.†   (source)
  • the anonymous hordes; no longer did they have to put up with buckshot marketing that guessed, at best, within a mile of their desires.†   (source)
  • Selena had been expecting it-and still wasn't entirely prepared for the hordes of reporters, the television vans, the spectators holding up their camera phones to capture a snapshot of the melee.†   (source)
  • The island has its own septic system, which is a subject often discussed by the hordes of Keelings and Gibsons and Ormsbys who empty themselves into it—and who are fearful of the system's eventual rebellion.†   (source)
  • The citizens of Anielle were warriors from birth, and had been guardians against the hordes of the wild men from the White Fang Mountains for generations.†   (source)
  • Dany had never felt so alone as she did seated in the midst of that vast horde.†   (source)
  • My thoughts flash back to the riot, to the innocent people tortured and killed by a mindless horde.†   (source)
  • It was not the necessary priesthood, nor the most vital pursuit of an inquiring mind, nor the first and last defense against a barbarian horde, any more than the study of painting or music, history or science.†   (source)
  • Seconds later, a horde of news hovers buzzed over the buildings on their way to the market square.†   (source)
  • Okay, but what about an intergalactic Mongol horde, like he was talking about?†   (source)
  • The goblin/dwarf turf war had flared up again, and every morning hordes of angry parents showed up demanding the release of their innocent offspring.†   (source)
  • Though he was dressed for the occasion, in a blue chalk-stripe suit (it had often struck me, the hordes of rich Russians in the Ralph Lauren shop on Madison), there was somehow no cleaning him up: his smudged eyes made him look stormy and disreputable, and though his hair wasn't technically dirty it gave the impression of dirtiness.†   (source)
  • Things have gotten so bad in Holland that hordes of children stop passersby in the streets to beg for a piece of bread.†   (source)
  • The villagers had been killed and Yazuac ransacked by a large horde, yet where was it?†   (source)
  • The heavy double doors blew apart, a wall crumbled, and a horde of Redd's card soldiers charged through the blasted opening with swords raised.†   (source)
  • The Ousters had been the single external threat to the Hegemony for the four centuries since the forebears of the barbarian hordes had left Sol System in their crude fleet of leaking O'Neill cities, tumbling asteroids, and experimental comet farm clusters.†   (source)
  • The cafeteria at the Chase Manhattan Bank where she worked served dinner to the employees for free, so she would load up with bologna sandwiches, cheese, cakes, whatever she could pillage, and bring it home for the hordes to devour.†   (source)
  • I drive downtown, past hordes of people awaking from a night on the pavement.†   (source)
  • They tended a garden filled with corn, peanuts, and greens, then headed to the tobacco fields with their cousins Cliff, Fred, Sadie, Margaret, and a horde of others.†   (source)
  • I was let go, only to stagger on the cellar steps, the horde of them behind me and in front of me, pushing me with menacing hands.†   (source)
  • First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes.†   (source)
  • He was going back to Sam, back to fight the horde of bloodthirsty newborn vampires.†   (source)
  • More frightening to me were the hordes of rats, even though they never got close.†   (source)
  • Then the moon of planting comes over the elm trees and shines on the horde of last year's seeds—It is then that he gathers the seeds and plants.†   (source)
  • In the swampy streets there were the remains of furniture, animal skeletons covered with red lilies, the last memories of the hordes of newcomers who had fled Macondo as wildly as they had arrived.†   (source)
  • Somewhere ahead of him on this path, the fanatic hordes cut their gory path across the universe in his name.†   (source)
  • As we pushed through the hordes, GaoLing and I clung to each other's hands.†   (source)
  • One or two fellows might come skulking out eventually but there won't be an orgiastic horde, not tonight anyway.†   (source)
  • Shades slithered, doors boomed, keys rattled their bones in locks, people fled with hordes of torn newspaper mice nibbling their heels.†   (source)
  • Mr. McElroy in world history, who announced that we were going to start by studying the barbarian hordes of western Russia, and then looked at me.†   (source)
  • Then you should wait until the hordes of people run to wherever your friends are, and then sneak up on them from behind.†   (source)
  • Well, it was normal-looking except for the hordes of uniformed men who were swarming around it.†   (source)
  • Not far from River Valley Farm there is a mysterious stretch of countryside known as the Sand Hills; it is like a beach without an ocean, and at night coyotes slink among the dunes, assembling in hordes to howl.†   (source)
  • Barbara looks down Thayer Street-overrun by hordes from Westport, Grosse Point, and Palo Alto.†   (source)
  • A horde of customers crowds the desk, and everywhere I turn there are books, books, and more books.†   (source)
  • Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs, the country ravished daily by new hordes, all his neighbors taken out and shothe could accept it all more easily than he dared admit.†   (source)
  • The world was moving so fast, so much money was being made, so many people were dying in Guam, and Germany, that hordes of strangers became good friends overnight.†   (source)
  • While this may have been scary news in terms of Medicare and Social Security, the average American had little to fear from the growing horde of oldsters.†   (source)
  • He got a pure silver cigarette lighter, a gold-plated ink pen and a five-dollar camera, so that he could take all his experiences back to Alabama after they vanquished the communist horde and defended democracy, or whatever it was they were supposed to do.†   (source)
  • Everywhere we went we encountered hordes of people, scurrying about their business, grim-faced.†   (source)
  • He breaks our gaze and cranes his neck to see over the hordes.†   (source)
  • For the briefest second, Max saw hordes of gaunt, starving creatures closing in upon them.†   (source)
  • It was gaining momentum as the geezers finished trashing Dukakis, who'd just been thrashed by Bush, when the banker said, loudly, "Say, I heard that woman has rented the old Sappington place and is moving to town, with her horde, of course.†   (source)
  • So much so that hordes of tourists now invade the area each summer.†   (source)
  • Hordes of angels circle the air, viewing the carnage.†   (source)
  • Hordes of Frenchmen and Irishmen, "the refuse of Europe," would flood the country and threaten the life of "all who love order, peace, virtue, and religion."†   (source)
  • I pushed through the hordes of students, fighting against the current to make my way to the front desk.†   (source)
  • Elil appear in hordes.†   (source)
  • Here at the house, horse-drawn teams dragged plows and broke the earth while hordes of Chinamen shoveled furiously, filling wagons by the score.†   (source)
  • Tom turned again and saw that the white bat had circled and was streaking over the meadow, trumpeting as it blasted through the horde of black flies.†   (source)
  • Such attacks—hordes of issen gorin rushing insanely through the darkness toward the bivouacked Americans—had been routine tactics in other Pacific island battles.†   (source)
  • Casto murmured as the doors opened to a horde of reporters.†   (source)
  • I whispered, and just like that, we melted smoothly into the horde of schoolkids.†   (source)
  • Every thump is a murderous aux soldier, every scritch a horde of rats.†   (source)
  • Out in the country are alert and zealous guardians of the language, like the armed camps the Romans maintained on the outer marches of the empire to guard civilization from the barbarian hordes.†   (source)
  • Then I suppose you have a way to get past the horde of hollows who'll be guarding their entrances as well!†   (source)
  • -and his horde of lunatic abolitionists had descended upon the scene, conjuring up a defense team that would no doubt do all they could to prolong the judicial proceedings for as long as possible.†   (source)
  • After your lecture, I'll do everything I can to keep the thundering horde back.†   (source)
  • Jason pulled his young trainer to the side of the stampeding hordes, never for an instant taking his eyes off the darkened parking area.†   (source)
  • Not hordes but quite a few.†   (source)
  • "You look like one of the Golden Horde," Alessandro told him.†   (source)
  • The popcorn wrappers and the whiskey bottle testified to the kind of invading hordes that had rolled through the room, like waves washing the remnants of destruction away to unknown bottoms.†   (source)
  • No. You're not going to be disturbed by hordes of customers.†   (source)
  • Hordes of your wounded passed through those wards.†   (source)
  • But Kemp of Targos surely believes that his walled city is powerful enough to stand alone, whereas its rival, Teralaine, would be hardpressed to hold back the horde.†   (source)
  • He can draw hordes, you know.†   (source)
  • When there were complaints that hordes of children ran into Royden with muddy feet, Lalla bought ten pairs of stilts and taught them to walk across the paddy fields on these "borukakuls" or "lying legs."†   (source)
  • Shmirg was now working the door, the saurian towering over the horde of Glatun.†   (source)
  • the theiving hordes of Lincoln.†   (source)
  • When Space Invaders was still in its proper place near the main entrance of the arcade, I used to stand there and spend hours every weekend defeating the never-ending alien hordes as the electronic music got faster and faster.†   (source)
  • You forget that our enemy is the horde of illegal squatters, no matter what nation they come from, who have settled in the Red Reserve.†   (source)
  • Again—the glorious defense to the death of the Alamo against the hordes of Santa Anna is a fact.†   (source)
  • Three days later my predecessor retired to civilian life, and the Minister issued a press statement: 'The Department of Mines and Resources is determined to do everything in its power to curb the carnage being wreaked upon the deer population by hordes of wolves.†   (source)
  • The four Regents drew rein, their hordes at their backs, and Yama faced them.†   (source)
  • Sophie's cry, borne across the milling hordes on the beach below, could have been heard by ships far out at sea.†   (source)
  • Where could you find room for all these hordes of people accumulated over thousands of years?†   (source)
  • For some reason, Niagara Falls, the Virgin Islands, or any of the other meccas for the hordes of lusty young couples checking into motels did not arouse any enthusiasm in me.†   (source)
  • As if borne in on a mist of twilight or a breath, a horde of mosquitoes and gnats came singing and striking at them first.†   (source)
  • Between a livid Lucrece and a horde of Sabine Women was a flush door of polished bronze.†   (source)
  • they all come bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand.   (source)
  • They are, certainly, more like a nation of saints than a horde of savages.   (source)
  • Before the registration window was a horde of women, shoving and pushing against each other.†   (source)
    horde = a large number
  • She watched the cars crawling up Chicken Street, threading through the horde of hawkers and pedestrians, honking at children and donkeys who wouldn't move.†   (source)
  • In the river, they melted into the horde of shoppers milling about, the money changers and bored-looking NGO workers, the cigarette vendors, the covered women who thrust fake antibiotic prescriptions at people and begged for money to fill them.†   (source)
  • Their intoxicating aromas attracted hordes of bumblebees.†   (source)
  • Family descended upon the house in hordes.†   (source)
  • He pointed the knife at the horde of Grievers; a flash glinted off the blade.†   (source)
  • Let it bring a horde of Silencers down upon me, I don't care.†   (source)
  • The idea of a world overwhelmed by hordes of Cranks was terrifying.†   (source)
  • He swam to the crystal shore, his senses alive to any sign of Redd or her hordes.†   (source)
  • It was a slight miscalculation that I was still on Bressia when the Ouster hordes arrived.†   (source)
  • Carlisle gestured to the angry horde at the edge of the woods; some of them growled in response.†   (source)
  • He is a strong man, brave ...and rash enough to meet a Dothraki horde in the open field.†   (source)
  • Momentarily foiled by the pickets, the Urgal horde milled with confusion.†   (source)
  • He remembered his army of demigods scaling Mount Tam, fighting through hordes of snake monsters.†   (source)
  • You'd rather face a ravening horde of demons, wouldn't you?†   (source)
  • There, it was rumoured, the kids ran in packs, in hordes.†   (source)
  • This Khal Drogo is said to have a hundred thousand men in his horde.†   (source)
  • Jesus Wept," muttered Martin Silenus Cicero's looked as if it had been invaded by barbarian hordes.†   (source)
  • I'm just another recruit on her way to battle the alien horde.†   (source)
  • If the beggar king crosses with a Dothraki horde at his back, the traitors will join him.†   (source)
  • She disappeared into the silent horde, which closed around her as though she had been swallowed.†   (source)
  • How he sacrificed himself so 1 could escape to rescue Sam from the evil galactic horde.†   (source)
  • She let out a long breath, studying the media horde across the avenue.†   (source)
  • He passed hordes of scrawny, dirty people who seemed on the edge of death.†   (source)
  • He imagined hordes of monsters descending into this valley.†   (source)
  • Goats, sheep, and half-starved dogs wandered freely amongst hordes of women, children, and old men.†   (source)
  • Just as the carriers turned the corner, a horde of cats materialized all around them.†   (source)
  • I fear his lordship is eager to see the heels of my hungry horde.†   (source)
  • You've no need to cook for a horde again, Branna.†   (source)
  • I turned to face Heath and Erik and the ghostly horde.†   (source)
  • The Horde's attack had come from the canyon lands, through the Natalga Gap.†   (source)
  • By the Hordes who pursue us, what is all this nonsense?†   (source)
  • The horde of faces blurred together into a bewildering mass.†   (source)
  • Hordes of people mill about the platform.†   (source)
  • She looked down the long table, smiled at the horde of lawyers, and said, "Good morning."†   (source)
  • The Forest Dweller suddenly plunged down the hill toward the encroaching Horde.†   (source)
  • Percy gazed at the endless horde of monsters.†   (source)
  • Don't you know how futile it is, the mind, against those mindless hordes?†   (source)
  • It's all the blood that is owed to you tonight:' The smoky horde paused in their seething.†   (source)
  • I blasted through a horde of flies like they were the air itself.†   (source)
  • The barbarian horde drove through their ranks, singing and killing with wild abandonment.†   (source)
  • As if we'd have sex in a cave surrounded by hordes of demons.†   (source)
  • Despite this strategy, the hordes gossiped about us.†   (source)
  • The Horde library lay in shadows, deserted at this late hour.†   (source)
  • A few hundred heroes, drunk most like, amidst a great horde of women, children, and thralls.†   (source)
  • Then, like a horde of dogs with the same scent in their nostrils, reporters scrambled forward.†   (source)
  • Hordes of well-to-do young Iranians traveled abroad in those years.†   (source)
  • A great cry rose up among the assembled horde.†   (source)
  • One fight in Mr. McElroy's class with barbarian hordes.†   (source)
  • X and Halfborn guarded our backs, slowing down the pursuing horde.†   (source)
  • He gazed around him at the horde of monsters.†   (source)
  • Mr. McDaniels looked past Augur at the assembled horde.†   (source)
  • She had not been surprised to realize that her anger was directed at the disease, not the Horde.†   (source)
  • The horde of white lawyers sat as stunned as Jake, but Wade Lanier quickly saw the opportunity.†   (source)
  • You can't believe how many filmstrips there are about the barbarian hordes of Russia.†   (source)
  • A ground-shaking roar erupted from the horde of beasts.†   (source)
  • For all you know the Horde cut you and you just don't remember.†   (source)
  • Tell them that the horde will reach Bremen's Run when the sun peaks tomorrow.†   (source)
  • We can't see them, but our battle is really against them, not the Horde.†   (source)
  • The horde of arai wailed, flapping their leathery wings and stirring up clouds of blackness.†   (source)
  • Bloody Fields The horde entered the mouth of Bremen's Run just before midday.†   (source)
  • The Horde is overtaking the Southern Forest as we speak.†   (source)
  • Hordes of monsters stirred and jostled one another, but none of them came forward.†   (source)
  • Thomas saw the true squalor of the Horde on every side.†   (source)
  • It was well known that the Horde's druids bewitched their own with slippery tongues and black magic.†   (source)
  • You lived with the Horde long enough to understand them better than most.†   (source)
  • The Horde's druids might practice their magic, but when have we ever?†   (source)
  • The Horde referred to them as albinos because their flesh wasn't scaly and gray like a Scab's skin.†   (source)
  • Beside the tower, a ring of Horde encircled two Scabs.†   (source)
  • Thomas s first thought was that the Horde had staged a massive attack.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, I'm in a battle with the Horde at this very moment that may end it all.†   (source)
  • Rachelle was killed thirteen months ago by the Horde, he said.†   (source)
  • The front ranks of the Horde shifted but held steady.†   (source)
  • The only cure fit for the Horde is the one Elyon has given us.†   (source)
  • As he d hoped, the albinos had assumed that the Horde had taken what they'd come for.†   (source)
  • You can't take on the whole Horde army single-handedly!†   (source)
  • Chelise and Johan showed them how to dance, Horde-style, and then Suzan led them in a Circle dance.†   (source)
  • You do realize that to conspire with the Horde has always been treasonous to us?†   (source)
  • They were used to running from the Horde, but their wide eyes betrayed a new fear.†   (source)
  • Not all of the Horde would have followed Johan.†   (source)
  • That means he s with the Horde right now.†   (source)
  • The Horde came again, this time with a larger force.†   (source)
  • The Horde took twenty-four trapped in one of the canyons.†   (source)
  • This, along with the smooth texture of the morst, was new for the Horde.†   (source)
  • To see the Horde's front lines, an observer might think that the Forest Guard was routing the enemy.†   (source)
  • Is it or is it not true that the Horde is truly the enemy of Elyon?†   (source)
  • It looked far too large for any library, much less one built to hold the Horde's Books.†   (source)
  • To find the pool of Elyon's water and dig through the barrier between it and the Horde's lake.†   (source)
  • He approached halfway between their position and the Horde army.†   (source)
  • Rachelle was killed by the Horde thirteen months ago.†   (source)
  • I mean I struck an agreement with Johan that would make Johan the king of the Horde.†   (source)
  • When the Horde moved to intercept, they would break off in a dozen directions to scatter them.†   (source)
  • With any luck the Horde would expect them to take one of the two more obvious escape routes.†   (source)
  • Just so you remember that no law is above Elyon s law, as all the Horde knows.†   (source)
  • Horde dyes came from brightly colored desert rocks ground into a powder.†   (source)
  • Ironic, because they were all darker than the Horde.†   (source)
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