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  • I arbitrarily punch buttons on the control board and end up hopping from foot to foot as alternating jets of icy cold and steaming hot water assault me.†   (source)
  • Mom threw the light switch, and we kids all started the assault.†   (source)
  • The harsh light of day and the blistering heat assault him as he walks down a ramp to the ground.†   (source)
  • He knew the assault would resume as soon as the bus got rolling, and he braced grimly for Dana's next blow.†   (source)
  • One officer, upon learning that another guard had shown leniency to captives, assaulted the guard with a sword.†   (source)
  • He bought me my first rope and ice ax when I was eight years old and led me into the Cascade Range to make an assault on the South Sister, a gentle ten-thousand-foot volcano not far from our Oregon home.†   (source)
  • Under the pitiless double assaults of her mother and grandmother, the cottage where she lived was always squeaking clean, mopped and swept and scoured into limp submission.†   (source)
  • The Lizard Men don't have enough one-man flying machines to transport a sufficient assault force to take the city.†   (source)
  • At the power level available to current experimental prototypes, the most that a full assault on Judgment Day could do is to make the people inside feel dizzy and nauseous.†   (source)
  • "Anytime there's even a hint of the government limiting the ability to buy assault rifles, the public goes crazy, saying they're trying to take away our freedom.†   (source)
  • With blood on his lip and fruit on the floor, the assaulted man responded in kind.†   (source)
  • He watches the SS officers walk the length of the line, assaulting the naked prisoners with the ends of their weapons, offering insults and cruel laughter.†   (source)
  • A man in uniform …. assaulted me.†   (source)
  • As soon as we hit the Bronx bricks, our senses were assaulted.†   (source)
  • Our assault on the Sixer army will begin tomorrow at noon, OST.†   (source)
  • Something within their territory has frightened them—the intrusion of an enemy, the assault of a dominant animal, a startling noise—and set off a flight reaction.†   (source)
  • When Langdon reached the landing at the bottom of the stairs, the unmistakable smell of linseed oil and plaster dust assaulted his nostrils.†   (source)
  • She would probably be sent home; we weren't supposed to physically assault another Selected.†   (source)
  • If I said yes, she'd let me be; if I said no, she would assault me again.†   (source)
  • In an attempt to arm you against Voldemort's assaults on your mind, I arranged Occlumency lessons with Professor Snape.'†   (source)
  • Your assault charge was dropped—is that correct?†   (source)
  • She said she wanted to live somewhere removed, detached, where neighbors wouldn't stare at her belly, point at her, snicker, or, worse yet, assault her with insincere kindnesses.†   (source)
  • Not a day goes by that we don't think back to when you assaulted Peter.†   (source)
  • Then he said, "I am arresting you for assaulting a police officer."†   (source)
  • Ninety-four percent of assaults and 95 percent of robberies involved black offenders.†   (source)
  • And I knew that if I'd been with him, I never would have gotten assaulted.†   (source)
  • Aunt Beast stood quietly against the assault.†   (source)
  • We got fragments of information from time to time and pieced together that the Allies had landed at Normandy and were mounting an assault in the west.†   (source)
  • WANTED FOR ASSAULT, ARSON, THEFT, DESTRUCTION OF MILITARY PROPERTY, AND HINDERING THE WAR EFFORT 200,000 REPUBLIC NOTES FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO ARREST†   (source)
  • Major Rawls picked up a pencil and tapped it on the barrel of the assault rifle.†   (source)
  • The Kinnow players never recovered from that assault, although they did manage to move the ball into our end of the field.†   (source)
  • It assaults the cobblestones, the houses, the windows.†   (source)
  • Underneath it was an M16 semiautomatic assault rifle.†   (source)
  • In reality there would have been, as always, too few, except that the last act, a mass assault against suicidally-defended Japan, never took place.†   (source)
  • The man's voice, even louder than before, was like an assault.†   (source)
  • If divorce had presented itself as the dastardly antithesis of all this, it could easily have been cast onto the other pan of the scales, along with betrayal, illness, thieving, assault and mendacity.†   (source)
  • The sound of orb generators exploding on Alyss' conjured army still assaulted the Alyssians' ears, but it stopped almost as soon as they entered the fortress.†   (source)
  • The Hab canvas rippled under the brutal assault as the internal supports bent and shivered with each gust.†   (source)
  • In the single hour we spend greeting children and shopkeepers, I see the Silvers assault or aggravate dozens of Red servants, all trying to do their jobs.†   (source)
  • The crack addict, who was being wheeled into an ambulance by now, looked up and identified Rameck, Train, and the others as the ones who had assaulted him.†   (source)
  • This nightly assault had become such a regular part of their lives that they'd ceased to think of it as something terrifying—in fact, the photograph I'd seen of it in Miss Peregrine's album had been labeled Our beautiful display.†   (source)
  • Hard as Tita tried to stem the memories that assaulted her and caused her to make more mistakes, holding a large sausage in her hands she couldn't keep from remembering the summer night when they all slept outside on the patio.†   (source)
  • His group could be invaluable in an assault like this.†   (source)
  • He braced himself for the assault.†   (source)
  • Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.†   (source)
  • The fine silk of Kai's shirt was clinging to his back and a trickle of sweat had begun down his neck—in the evening the welcome pad would be sheltered by the palace's stone walls, but now it was under full assault by the late August sun.†   (source)
  • The assault on the summit must wait while the three boys accepted this challenge.†   (source)
  • Why was it up here? d'…. of all the insults, of all the assaults on the dignity of a woman," she said to Bellingham, "this, sir, is the lowest, the most base.†   (source)
  • The British press called the HeLa hybrids an "assault on life," and portrayed Harris as a mad scientist.†   (source)
  • Six immediately rolls over, managing to send an elbow straight into the same eye that she assaulted a few minutes ago.†   (source)
  • The one who led the assault on Mount Othrys.†   (source)
  • Out of nowhere, a really nasty smell assaulted my nostrils -- the stench of a gas station restroom sorely in need of attention.†   (source)
  • I'm doing my best not to seem utterly terrified, but it's difficult to stay calm when you have to strip down practically to your underwear in front of giants equipped with automatic assault weapons.†   (source)
  • He had estimated that it would take fifteen minutes for the assault boats to cross the river; twenty-five had passed now, and there was neither sign nor sound of them.†   (source)
  • But no one was paying attention to Butler — too busy watching their comrades, making sure they weren't alone in the assault.†   (source)
  • I had been alone one day before the rape at the very spot where Karen had been assaulted.†   (source)
  • We told the police that this weird guy was trying to assault us, and you should have seen it: About twenty undercover guys (even a guy I thought was an old homeless man asleep on a bench) jumped on Norman and dragged him, screaming, off to the mental ward!†   (source)
  • And suddenly he found that he didn't like the Overlook so well anymore, as if it wasn't wasps that had stung his son, wasps that had miraculously lived through the bug bomb assault, but the hotel itself.†   (source)
  • By early afternoon, we were getting ready to head back, but we were assaulted by heavy fire coming from a building up the street.†   (source)
  • THE ASSAULT OF THE EQUALLY EVIL LUNCHROOM ZOMBIE NERDS†   (source)
  • My neck twinged with the image of the hundreds of tiny spiders waiting to assault me.†   (source)
  • He was asked whether he offered any assault against the troops.†   (source)
  • As if in response to his brief selfconfidence, the Shade's smothering blackness assaulted him anew.†   (source)
  • Army Rangers are a big assault force—if you want a large target, say an airfield, taken down, that's their thing.†   (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)
  • But in the midst of all that thunder, all that news assaulting our ears, we heard not a word.†   (source)
  • John, you assaulted Kevin.†   (source)
  • On the third day of the revolution, Kassad landed the Denieve's single assault boat in the main courtyard of the Grand Mosque at Mashhad.†   (source)
  • The six of us, dressed in our light combat gear-flat desert khakis with Oakley assault boots-stepped outside into a light, warm breeze.†   (source)
  • Yes, Seward had been a target, but the viciousness of the assault shocked and revolted Booth.†   (source)
  • The island had come under repeated assault, prompting a resurfacing of Olmsted's old anger about the compulsion of clients to tinker with his landscapes.†   (source)
  • In his masterful novel APassage to India (1924), E. M. Forster has as his central incident a possible assault in a cave.†   (source)
  • This must have been Annie's doing, assaulting her with it again.†   (source)
  • Maybe they realize what they're doing and it's against the law: assault with a dangerous weapon.†   (source)
  • As expected, the gossip fence had instantly informed their parents about our assault on the tipple.†   (source)
  • As PFCs or Spec 4s, most of them were common grunts and carried the standard M-16 gas-operated assault rifle.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the Metaverse is wide open and undefended, like airports in the days before bombs and metal detectors, like elementary schools in the days before maniacs with assault rifles.†   (source)
  • Burger King's assault on the supremacy of the Mc-Donald's french fry, launched in 1997 with a $70 million advertising campaign, was driven in large part by the huge markups that are possible with fries.†   (source)
  • Shootings, assaults and skirmishes between the barrios are direct results of police activity.†   (source)
  • By the end of that day of our first edition, I really did consider locking myself in the school furnace room until Dale was about a month into his first three-to-five for first degree assault on some other kid.†   (source)
  • THIS MAY BE CONSTRUED AS A "TECHNICAL ASSAULT."†   (source)
  • The arrangement was not only practical but avoided confrontation, the sexual assault motif of front-to-back parking in teeming city streets.†   (source)
  • I understand that the Morrigan and my Elder sister Bastet are planning an assault on my Shadowrealm, the girl said grimly.†   (source)
  • This view was contradicted with such energy that Mr Charles, quite aside from worrying he would become the next focus of the gentlemen's attention, actually thought himself in danger of physical assault.†   (source)
  • No sexual assault, or at least none that they could confirm, because of her condition.†   (source)
  • I was no longer worried that hired killers were going to leap out and assault me.†   (source)
  • Assaulted.†   (source)
  • He can't tell me what to do or what might work best for Nathaniel, but he says it is not unheard of for psychiatrists to advise loved ones to call the police and claim they've been threatened or assaulted.†   (source)
  • You are Amazing Amy, and you've survived a brutal kidnapping involving repeated assaults.†   (source)
  • On Saturdays the poor mulattoes, along with all their domestic animals and kitchen utensils, tumultuously abandoned their hovels of cardboard and tin on the edges of the swamps and in jubilant assault took over the rocky beaches of the colonial district.†   (source)
  • And Paul realized she was speaking for his benefit, that she wanted him to make a quick acceptance of this assault on his nostrils.†   (source)
  • I think of it more as an assault.†   (source)
  • But now, with the most tumultuous decade of the century between him and ourselves, a decade in which reason has been assailed and assaulted beyond the wildest beliefs of the fifties, I think that in this Chautauqua based on his discoveries we can understand a little better what he was talking about — a solution for it all — if only that were true — so much of it's lost there's no way of knowing.†   (source)
  • Over and over a single image assaulted me: Colton being wheeled away, his arms stretched out, screaming for me to save him.†   (source)
  • But only one plunged forward to meet the assault head-on.†   (source)
  • If you determine that he is guilty of something else—of hatred, of assault, of manslaughter, of murder in self-defense, of coldness, of passion, of second-degree murder—none of that will be relevant.†   (source)
  • The second man lay on the floor and shaded his eyes from the light and gathered his strength, a knockoff Russian assault rifle by his side.†   (source)
  • All my senses were assaulted.†   (source)
  • There were two suicides and four attempted suicides, numerous accounts of assault, three reported rapes, and a hit-and-run.†   (source)
  • Some years before Bailey and I arrived in town, a man was hunted down for assaulting white womanhood.†   (source)
  • She stopped assaulting her food to look at him, her gaze unwavering.†   (source)
  • Therefore, any criticism of him amounted to an assault on the already downtrodden people he served.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he did not exclude the possibility that Harriet Vanger had run away, maybe heading for Stockholm, and that something had befallen her subsequently—drugs, prostitution, an assault, or an accident pure and simple.†   (source)
  • A Nisei man had been assaulted on the street in Seattle.†   (source)
  • I mean, this was a case of assault with bodily injury.†   (source)
  • Then the man in black launched his greatest assault.†   (source)
  • I had just accused him of assault, after all.†   (source)
  • Before the factions were introduced, and the serums with them, the experiments all used to be under near-constant assault from within.†   (source)
  • For example, three of the men, throughout their lives, had been frequently involved in fights which were not ordinary altercations, and which would have become homicidal assaults if not stopped by others.†   (source)
  • 'I can't believe they're charging me with assault,' Loomis told Alex through the bars of the holding cell.†   (source)
  • Khanum Shaheen and the other office workers took up the assault.†   (source)
  • They were being assaulted by the saxophonist who perhaps no longer wanted their love and merely hurled his outrage at them with the same contemptuous, pagan pride with which he humped the air.†   (source)
  • There were two Kleynhans brothers on the island, both reputed to have viciously assaulted prisoners.†   (source)
  • Mondo's dad was named Montez, and he was in prison for assaulting a police officer, and Eddie's dad was named Owens, and he died a long time ago, knifed by a man who said he cheated at cards.†   (source)
  • He fights recklessly, almost frenziedly, and I easily evade his assault.†   (source)
  • A young man in a beret and military fatigues knelt on one knee in the grass, holding a Russian assault rifle, watching us with mild interest.†   (source)
  • The Fugees seemed to gain confidence from the assaults.†   (source)
  • With a kind of wry envy, Hazel realized that Bigwig was actually looking forward to meeting the Efrafan assault.†   (source)
  • When the case came to trial, Goetz was easily acquitted on charges of assault and attempted murder.†   (source)
  • The smell of fake lemon cleaner and bleach assaulted my nostrils as the sheet settled around me.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't be the girl who had everything, but the girl who'd been attacked, assaulted, so helpless.†   (source)
  • Of course we had the usual list of guys in for car theft, pimping, mail theft, murder, manslaughter, assault, burglary, larceny, arson, explosives, drug possession, drug dealing.†   (source)
  • So had the rate of just about every other sort of crime, from assault to car theft.†   (source)
  • She hastened to add that the massages "are on the upand-up," and laughs when friends ask whether she was "attacked"—sexually assaulted—during her stay.†   (source)
  • The inside of the Kennedy was much like the interior of the USS Guam, the helicopter assault ship Ryan had been assigned to during his brief military career.†   (source)
  • "We ain't going on a cowhunt, we're launching an assault.†   (source)
  • Akku Yadav continued his assaults.†   (source)
  • This is an assaulter's worst nightmare.†   (source)
  • His right forearm shattered, he fires with the left, the butt of his assault rifle wedged into his armpit.†   (source)
  • It had been about ten minutes since the assault began.†   (source)
  • He must mount his assault with the skill and ruthlessness of a military operation.†   (source)
  • Macon was so shocked at being assaulted he could not speak.†   (source)
  • Must have dozed off because I wake to an assault of midmorning sun and, somewhere close (outside?†   (source)
  • America was at peace, but the Marines had been practicing amphibious assaults against Caribbean islands for over sixteen years by now.†   (source)
  • You have assaulted the police.†   (source)
  • I would have been ready for a full-on assault of charm and creative come-ons, but I'm completely unprepared for the utterly guileless apology I'm getting.†   (source)
  • That is the area where you were assaulted; is that right?†   (source)
  • The Twins narrowed their eyes at him and sucked air to begin a new assault, which, thankfully, my roommate interrupted.†   (source)
  • Three were carried away by the first assault of the flood; the others were now hurled into the water by their horses and overwhelmed.†   (source)
  • How I was pretty sure the sexual assault on the corpse, the bloody jacket, the missing rings, added up to a single, obsessed killer.†   (source)
  • Blanca and her new husband spent their wedding night in the honeymoon suite of the best hotel in the capital, which Trueba had filled with flowers in the hope of winning his daughter's forgiveness for the string of assaults to which he had subjected her during the preceding months.†   (source)
  • Yossarian slithered into his own clothes between assaults.†   (source)
  • If he assaults me, what can I do?†   (source)
  • I didn't assault anyone.†   (source)
  • Cedric's rear-guard assault-based on acing more advanced, higher-credit classes in the past two years-wasn't enough to overcome a few B's he got in ninth grade.†   (source)
  • He paused, knowing that there was likely nothing he could do to stop their assault.†   (source)
  • There was no telling what Tenorio would do at this insult; everyone knew he was crazy enough to assault the priest.†   (source)
  • The sight of instruments lying helter-skelter—on the patient, next to the patient, on the operating table—assaulted her senses.†   (source)
  • The force of her sudden assault caught him off guard.†   (source)
  • She had the look of someone who was seriously considering an assault.†   (source)
  • Drug trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon.†   (source)
  • I have spoken with people who have been assaulted and brutalized by their own comrades--and parents who've had to attend their own children's funerals.†   (source)
  • No, no. The niece is insulted or assaulted—allegedly.†   (source)
  • And there on the platform I too had stridden and debated, a student leader directing my voice at the highest beams and farthest rafters, ringing them, the accents staccato upon the ridgepole and echoing back with a tinkling, like words hurled to the trees of a wilderness, or into a well of slate-gray water; more sound than sense, a play upon the resonances of buildings, an assault upon the temples of the ear: Ha! to the gray-haired matron in the final row.†   (source)
  • When the men fell back, after the slaughter of the first assault, he led them up the hill twice again.†   (source)
  • I distinctly remember that I was not afraid, because no matter how much red hatred clouded his eyes, how much Jim Beam or beer or homemade whiskey assaulted his brain, he never touched me.†   (source)
  • The hyperactive dog raced back and forth, aroused perhaps by squirrels or rabbits in the brush, but not by human scent; it did not raise a throated growl, the signal of assault.†   (source)
  • Use this fire to cleanse our hearts as well as our homes, and deliver us at last from the wrath of the disease that assaults us.†   (source)
  • Her physical assaults no longer hurt me.†   (source)
  • Even the greens, her favorite shades of greens, flee the trees and assault her with luminosity.†   (source)
  • Regardless of his appearance, he might be a cop, in which case assaulting him ensured serious consequences.†   (source)
  • For while our noses and lungs feasted on nature's goodness, our eyes were assaulted by evidence of her savagery.†   (source)
  • "Khalid," the assaulter whispered.†   (source)
  • He was being held for involuntary manslaughter and assaulting a peace officer.†   (source)
  • She's not much worried about an assault, and she keeps only a minimal garrison of her private guard at Ephrata."†   (source)
  • After a brief moment of initial hesitation and retreat, Mr. McDaniels responded to phantasm with a frontal assault, exhibiting extraordinary determination and—oh dear, how should I put this—ferocity!†   (source)
  • Kennedy carefully left out any mention of U.S. financing, training, and planning of a rebelled assault.†   (source)
  • We were prepared to get you by open, armed assault on that Institute or on the Wayne-Falkland, if necessary.†   (source)
  • The cafeteria slipped out of focus, the dizzying roar of voices assaulting her from all sides.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, they'd put me away for a long time: assaulting an officer, resisting arrest."†   (source)
  • This assault brought instant rebuttal.†   (source)
  • Unlike other cities in the region, including Savannah and Columbia, Charleston never had to endure the full fury of an assault by the armies of William Tecumseh Sherman.†   (source)
  • I say "unfortunately" not because I didn't want to help him, but because I knew I wasn't exactly the best candidate to stage a Schwarzeneggerstyle commando assault on the Bedoowan palace and fight my way out with Uncle Press in tow.†   (source)
  • Parliament will commence, and hordes of families will begin their assault on our fair city for parties and teas, concerts, derbies, and entertainments of all sorts.†   (source)
  • "Assault, battery, and false imprisonment," the sheriff continued.†   (source)
  • Our numbers seem to hold them back from physical assaults, but more shouting matches are starting to break out along the border that is quickly forming.†   (source)
  • Under prolonged assault they come apart.†   (source)
  • A twenty-three-year-old printer from Philadelphia, a private in the 71st Pennsylvania wounded while helping to repel Pickett's assault at Gettysburg, wrote to his father that any sacrifice was worth the cost, "for what is home with all its endearments, if we have not a country freed from every vestige of the anarchy, and the tyrannical and blood thirsty despotism which threatens on every side to overwhelm us?"†   (source)
  • You just assaulted me for saying I should be the one to help out with Mom and Dad.†   (source)
  • When I was little, my dad took me aboard his ship when it came in. it was an assault carrier.†   (source)
  • After the initial assault on the clan, the surviving gnomes scattered down the many corridors of their mazework mines.†   (source)
  • Even though Kay paid off the bar owners, I didn't know whether there were still arrest warrants out for me—assault and all that stuff.†   (source)
  • The guard assaulted her, tasted her blood.†   (source)
  • 56x45mm rounds fired by two AR-15 assault rifles.†   (source)
  • Captain Chris DiNote, commander of the assault boat wing.†   (source)
  • Once they have entered timber they are exposed to a concentrated, highly skilled, and furious assault from men.†   (source)
  • So it was that I found myself in the mid-nineteen seventies in another small house, this time in Co. Wicklow south of Dublin, with a young family of my own and a slightly less imposing radio set, listening to the rain in the trees and to the news of bombings closer to home-not only those by the Provisional IRA in Belfast but equally atrocious assaults in Dublin by loyalist paramilitaries from the north.†   (source)
  • On 18 April Thomas "Casey" Killinger, also of Las Vegas, and the fourth member of the band which murdered Mr. and Mrs. James Hickey and robbed and assaulted Dr. Daniel Gunn, was hung on this spot.†   (source)
  • Pinguid could not have chosen a worse time for an assault on San Francisco.†   (source)
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