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  • Jade.s shouts turned to screams, and Kris motioned Rhyn out of the room.
  • The jury quickly agreed on a verdict of not guilty, and the acquittal was greeted by the populace with shouts of triumph.
  • He liked to hear those wild, tipsy shouts behind him: Get on!
  • "To the fifth gun, wheel it up!" came shouts from one side.
  • Loud, coarse laughter and joyous shouts ensued.
  • Members of the elite federal government and military personnel darted between greencars and buildings, the buzz of radios and shouts adding to the compound's chaos.
  • The shouts of her pursuers prodded him, and he gave chase.
  • The execution was a military and not a national act, and at the last scene on the scaffold the triumphant shouts of the soldiery could not overwhelm the groans and sobs raised by the populace.
  • Vacancies were filled by the Apella, that candidate being declared elected whom the assembly acclaimed with the loudest shouts - a method which Aristotle censures as childish (Polit.
  • The Socialist deputy, Mr Mezbffy, who wished to move an interpellation on the question, was howled down by the Independents with shouts of " Away with him!
  • The presiding officers were at first the kings, but in historical times the ephors, and the voting was conducted by shouts; if the president was doubtful as to the majority of voices, a division was taken and the votes were counted.
  • He accepted,or appeared to accept, the cognomen of Nero conferred upon him by the shouts of the populace, whom his comparative youth and the effeminacy of his appearance reminded of their lost favourite.
  • In Italy a puppet representing Haman was set 'up on high amidst shouts of vengeance and blowing of trumpets.
  • Gotama's return became an ovation; musicians preceded and followed his chariot, while shouts of joy and triumph fell on his ear.
  • On this occasion a great crowd, especially of young people, thronged round the well with shouts of religious enthusiasm, while the servants of the well dashed buckets of water over their heads.
  • His devotion is expressed in shouts of "Labbeyka" (a word of obscure origin and meaning; he enters the great mosque, performs the tawaf and the sa'y 1 and then has his head shaved and resumes his common dress.
  • Their religion has been described as a kind of demonworship, consisting of rude dances and shouts raised to scare away the evil spirits, whom they confound with their ancestors.
  • Indeed, during the long audience to which we were admitted, it was almost impossible to converse, so loud were the shouts of the people in the Thuilleries Gardens, which were full, though it was then dark.
  • The window frame which prevented anyone from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of the gentlemen around.
  • Bagration rode up to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning the sound of voices and the shouts of command.
  • Despite his desperate shouts that used to seem so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the air, and disobeying orders.
  • He was met in the avenue by coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow.
  • At the moment he opened his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn shouts of thousands of voices.
  • Rostov, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line.
  • The nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but from behind still came the shouts: Onto the ice, why do you stop?
  • From that sleigh one could hear the shouts, laughter, and voices of the mummers.
  • All these things were repeatedly interrupted by the enthusiastic shouts of the audience.
  • On the Arbat Square the troyka caught against a carriage; something cracked, shouts were heard, and the troyka flew along the Arbat Street.
  • Prince Andrew, listening to this polyglot talk and to these surmises, plans, refutations, and shouts, felt nothing but amazement at what they were saying.
  • The success of a military action depends not on them, but on the man in the ranks who shouts, 'We are lost!' or who shouts, 'Hurrah!'
  • Rostov and Ilyin, on entering the room, were welcomed with merry shouts and laughter.
  • Even at ten o'clock, when the Rostovs got out of their carriage at the chapel, the sultry air, the shouts of hawkers, the light and gay summer clothes of the crowd, the dusty leaves of the trees on the boulevard, the sounds of the band and the white trousers of a battalion marching to parade, the rattling of wheels on the cobblestones, and the brilliant, hot sunshine were all full of that summer languor, that content and discontent with the present, which is most strongly felt on a bright, hot day in town.
  • In the midst of his explanation shouts were heard from the army, growing more incoherent and more diffused, mingling with music and songs and coming from the field where the review was held.
  • Sounds of hoofs and shouts were nearing the village.
  • After this from amid the ranks of infantry to the right of the battery came the sound of a drum and shouts of command, and from the battery one saw how those ranks of infantry moved forward.
  • Sometimes shouts were heard through the firing, but it was impossible to tell what was being done there.
  • Ah, they don't see it! came identical shouts from the ranks all along the regiment.
  • In the streets, around carts that were to take some of the wounded away, shouts, curses, and blows could be heard.
  • The gates and shops were all closed, only here and there round the taverns solitary shouts or drunken songs could be heard.
  • From an unfinished house on the Varvarka, the ground floor of which was a dramshop, came drunken shouts and songs.
  • When they reached the Myasnitski Street and could no longer hear the shouts of the mob, the count began to repent.
  • And strange to say, the Governor of Moscow, the proud Count Rostopchin, took up a Cossack whip and went to the bridge where he began with shouts to drive on the carts that blocked the way.
  • Shouts of approval were heard from the crowd around, and at the same moment a mounted patrol of French uhlans appeared from round the corner.
  • From all sides, like the roar of the sea, were heard the rattle of wheels, the tramp of feet, and incessant shouts of anger and abuse.
  • It was not till nearly evening that the officer commanding the escort collected his men and with shouts and quarrels forced his way in among the baggage trains, and the prisoners, hemmed in on all sides, emerged onto the Kaluga road.
  • For a long time, oaths, angry shouts, and fighting could be heard from all sides.
  • In an instant the tramp of horses galloping forward was heard, shouts came from various sides, and then more shots.
  • From all sides came shouts of command, and from the left came smartly dressed cavalrymen on good horses, passing the prisoners at a trot.
  • Before sunrise he was awakened by shouts and loud and rapid firing.
  • "You see, brothers..." said he when the shouts had ceased... and all at once his voice and the expression of his face changed.
  • Some fifteen men with merry shouts were shaking down the high wattle wall of a shed, the roof of which had already been removed.
  • He heard the shouts before they reached the helipad atop a cliff overlooking a valley.
  • It was calm, and at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard from the hill.
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