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  • Richard watched the Samurai edge closer and thought, Maybe this isn't such a good idea.†   (source)
  • All she had to do was yelp and he would come charging like a Samurai warrior on steroids.†   (source)
  • The Japanese fighting man believed he was fighting in the proud tradition of ancient samurai.†   (source)
  • She also told him that the best samurai swords are tempered over and over again in the hottest flames and people too are made strong and excellent when they go through life's difficulties.†   (source)
  • All manner of weapons hung from the walls, just as they did in the training room in the Institute—kindjals and chakhrams, maces and swords and daggers, crossbows and brass knuckles, throwing stars and axes and samurai swords.†   (source)
  • Max wandered over to look at a beautiful samurai helmet brightly lit within a glass case.†   (source)
  • But both times she said his name, it felt like she'd walked into the room and samurai-style ripped my gut open.†   (source)
  • Instead of letting them start separate new lives like the Japanese, who could become samurais and geishas, the Chinese family, faces averted but eyes glowering sideways, hung on to the offenders and fed them leftovers.†   (source)
  • It was filled with mementos of his service, ceremonial and Samurai swords, nautical instruments, charts, maps, books on shelves and stacked in corners, bound files of the Proceedings, The Foreign Affairs Quarterly, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.†   (source)
  • Condensation is dripping from the blade of Bruce Lee's samurai sword.†   (source)
  • The story of his great-grandfather, the samurai madman, was his own story, too, he saw now.†   (source)
  • Shoto and daito were the Japanese names for the short and long swords worn by samurai.†   (source)
  • "My great-grandfather," said Kabuo, pulling off his coat, "was a samurai and a magnificent soldier.†   (source)
  • "He came to battle wielding a samurai's sword against the rifles of an imperial garrison.†   (source)
  • It was his bad fortune to live at a time when the samurai were no longer necessary.†   (source)
  • It was said that he had joined other samurai who had been displaced by the Meiji.†   (source)
  • This vulgarized version of the Warrior's Way would have surprised samurai of an earlier era.†   (source)
  • A ronin is a samurai—a wandering samurai without a master.†   (source)
  • He was the oldest son in a family that had for centuries been of the samurai class.†   (source)
  • The Samurai was now in the bike lane, just a foot or so away from the waist-high concrete wall.†   (source)
  • A traditional samurai might expect to die in combat and be honored for it.†   (source)
  • A true samurai would slice his belly open over an issue of honor.†   (source)
  • Peaceable American boys, citizen-soldiers about to engage with a myth-obsessed samurai foe.†   (source)
  • The samurai had always been a small elite within the larger society.†   (source)
  • Kuribayashi's ancestors were samurai and had served six emperors over five generations.†   (source)
  • One Japanese officer brandished his samurai sword as he made his break for it: a bad mistake.†   (source)
  • But the twentieth-century Japanese military wasn't being run by samurai.†   (source)
  • Until her life began to fray, she'd always used her cruelty for a purpose, just as a samurai draws his sword—not for slashing at random, but for slashing at enemies.†   (source)
  • "It was a half-blind, one-legged samurai with a katana versus a big strong healthy man with his arms tied behind his back," Hiro says.†   (source)
  • Akihide and 'Foshiro's mutual love of samurai movies served as the inspiration for their avatars' names and appearances.†   (source)
  • He didn't wear peasant clothing like the fishermen, but rather a man's kimono, with kimono trousers that made him look to me like the illustrations you may have seen of samurai.†   (source)
  • It was an ancient sword, the leutenant was from a proud family of samurai, and the only reason he was on this home-front detail was that he had nearly had one leg blown off earlier in the war.†   (source)
  • I didn't even bother checking Daito and Shoto's channel, the Daishow, because I knew they'd be showing some old samurai movie.†   (source)
  • His mind was good, but he only understood one or two things in the whole world-samurai movies and the Macintosh-and he understood them far, far too well.†   (source)
  • I felt bad about how our first encounter had ended, and I waited for an opportunity to extend some sort of olive branch to the two samurai.†   (source)
  • So the plan is to snap the blade to a full stop just after the impact, maybe crease his brain-pan an inch or two, then whip it out and look for another samurai, hence: "Next!"†   (source)
  • They wore matching suits of traditional samurai armor, and each had both a short wakizashi and a longer katana strapped to his belt.†   (source)
  • 'The sword that gives life, not the sword that takes life, is the goal of the samurai,' my grandfather said then.†   (source)
  • Emotional intensity" doesn't convey the half of it, of course. it is the kind of coarse and disappointing translation that makes the dismembered bodies of samurai warriors spin in their graves.†   (source)
  • Then I walked over and took down one of the samurai swords mounted on the wall and presented it to Shoto.†   (source)
  • The Sixers had obviously spotted the Kurosawa during its descent to the planet's surface, and they'd made killing the two samurai a priority.†   (source)
  • Oldest son of the Miyamotos, great-grandson of a samurai, and the first of his lineage to become an American in name, place, and heart, he had not given up on being who he was; he had never given up on his family's land or the claim they had to it by all that was right, the human claim that was bigger than hate or war or any smallness or enmity.†   (source)
  • Kendo is to real samurai sword fighting what fencing is to real swashbuckling: an attempt to take a highly disorganized, chaotic, violent, and brutal conflict and turn it into a cute game.†   (source)
  • The bokken, a curved piece of cherry wood three feet long, had been Kabuo's great-grandfather's, a man who had been a samurai before the Meiji Restoration and later—after the wearing of swords was outlawed—a farmer of government rice lands on Kyushu for ten days before he joined two hundred other rebellious samurai in Kumamoto.†   (source)
  • Since then the Deliverator has kept the gun in the glove compartment and relied, instead, on a matched set of samurai swords, which have always been his weapon of choice anyhow.†   (source)
  • Finally, the leader comes out, Bruce Lee himself, a fortyish guy in a Kevlar vest, an ammo vest stretched over that, a diagonal bandolier, samurai sword-Hiro would love to take him on— nunchuks, and his colors, the patchwork of human scalps.†   (source)
  • I like to rap about sweetened romance My fond ambition is of your pants So here is of special reinarkable way Of this fellow raps named Sushi IC The Nipponese talking phenomenon Like samurai sword his sharpened tongue Who raps the East Asia and the Pacific Prosperity Sphere, to be specific It's a typical loose slope of dirt and stones that looks like it would wash away in the first rainfall.†   (source)
  • He had been found in Golden Gate Park, lovesick, wearing nothing but a thong, taking long pulls from a jumbo bottle of Courvoisier and practicing kendo attacks with a genuine samurai sword, floating across the grass on powerfully muscled thighs to slice other picnickers' hurtling Frisbees and baseballs in twain.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the rakshasa appeared to be looking at Max as he rode, tall and proud as a samurai, to within a hundred yards of Trench Nineteen.†   (source)
  • Over the years, everything from samurai swords to inflatable dates had been dragged through the doors; despite Julie's rigorous denials, it was in this category that Singer also fell.†   (source)
  • In the traditional Japanese class system, samurai ranked just below nobility; then came farmers and those who worked the land.†   (source)
  • Adam explained that when he'd dived out of the Samurai, he had hoped to straighten out and land feet first.†   (source)
  • We had watched many scenes like this since his return, with Papa acting so crazy sometimes you could almost laugh at the samurai in him, trying to cow her with sheer noise and fierce display.†   (source)
  • Richard drove directly behind the Samurai, nervous but also confident that nothing would happen to Adam.†   (source)
  • Another friend volunteered his Suzuki Samurai, and they headed out into the night, a convoy of a half-dozen vehicles with Adam riding in the back of the open-topped Samurai.†   (source)
  • I see it now as a sad, homemade version of the samurai sword his great-greatgrandfather carried in the land around Hiroshima, at a time when such warriors weren't much needed anymore, when their swords were both their virtue and their burden.†   (source)
  • Papa roared back at her, louder than the engine, and with such a terrible samurai's scowl that we all went leaping and piling into the car, Mama last, slamming the back door and climbing into the front seat next to him.†   (source)
  • Bushido, the "Way of the Warrior," had for centuries been the honored code of Japan's proud samurai caste.†   (source)
  • But suicide as an expression of ultimate sacrifice for one's country was not a traditional samurai value.†   (source)
  • They were, in effect, brainwashed to believe that by laying down their lives they were walking in the footsteps of heroic samurai.†   (source)
  • A Japanese officer towered over him with a raised samurai sword, about to chop the Australian's head off.†   (source)
  • A Marine, seething with four days' worth of grief and terror, grabbed the blade out of the samurai's hands and sliced its owner to death with it.†   (source)
  • Pregnant women were marched to one killing field where Japanese placed bets on the sex of the fetus about to tumble from its mother's womb, cut by a samurai sword.†   (source)
  • To them, the Romantic Hero was no longer the knight, the wandering poet, the cowpuncher, the aviator, nor the brave young district attorney, but the great sales-manager, who had an Analysis of Merchandizing Problems on his glass-topped desk, whose title of nobility was "Go-getter," and who devoted himself and all his young samurai to the cosmic purpose of Selling—not of selling anything in particular, for or to anybody in particular, but pure Selling.†   (source)
  • You are to put them on over your clothes, and please forget that you are Minnesotans, and turn into mandarins and coolies and—and samurai (isn't it?†   (source)
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