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Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!
I stopped the tractor and I shouted down to the boy, and I knew he could hear me, for the morning was clear and still, but he did not even hesitate in that brutal, murdering dance.
During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!
For example, he once missed first prize in a tournament in Berlin by losing to Sämisch, and when it became clear he was going to lose the game, Nimzowitsch stood up on the table and shouted, " Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!
Waddell was the 27th and last batter, and when he flied out, Young shouted, " How do you like that, you hayseed?
As she was led to the scaffold, Madame Roland shouted " O liberty!
With his soft voice, he was sometimes shouted down or excluded from discussions.
Until his death, " Stringbean " played the field's ' scarecrow ,' delivering one-liners before being shouted down by the ' crow ' on his shoulder ; after his 1973 murder, he was not replaced, and the ' scarecrow ' simply was seen in the field as a memorial.
A former aide recalled that Ribbentrop threw the German Embassy into chaos due to his erratic personality: He rose, muttering bad-temperedly ... Dressed in his pyjamas, he received the junior secretaries and press attachés in his bathroom ... He scolded, threatened, gesticulated with his razor and shouted at his valet ... As he took his bath, he ordered people to be summoned from Berlin, accepted and cancelled, appointed and dismissed, and dictated through the door to a nervous stenographer ... He cursed people in their absence, calling them saboteurs and communists ... It was my task to put his calls through ; his valet stood within splashing distance holding a white telephone ... Ribbentrop believed only ministers ranked above him: everyone else, including his ambassadorial colleagues, had to kept waiting on the line.
He turned to the audience and asked them what the next line was, and people shouted it at him, causing him to wonder, " What is the point of this?
When the Old Guard was surrounded and made its last stand at La Belle Alliance, he supposedly shouted in defiance to a call for their honorable surrender: " The Old Guard dies but does not surrender!
", expressing defiance and transgression of the working class characters ; it was newsworthy when the King and Queen " with the rest of the audience, cocked their thumbs and shouted Oi!
McVeigh wore a printed T-shirt with the motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Sic semper tyrannis (" Thus always to tyrants ", which was shouted by John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln ) and " The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants " ( from Thomas Jefferson ).
However, it was finished, the foil was put on ; I then shouted ' Mary had a little lamb ', etc.
Warren and Brandeis declared that information which was previously hidden and private could now be " shouted from the rooftops.
While he was speaking in Williamstown, Victoria, in 1954, a heckler shouted, " I wouldn ’ t vote for you if you were the Archangel Gabriel " to which Menzies coolly replied " If I were the Archangel Gabriel, I ’ m afraid you wouldn't be in my constituency.
A form of range voting was apparently used in some elections in Ancient Sparta by measuring how loudly the crowd shouted for different candidates ; rough modern-day equivalents include the use of clapometers in some television shows and the judging processes of some athletic competitions.
At the end of one particular performance, a U. S. Marine in the audience shouted, " That was righteous, brothers!
McVeigh was wearing a T-shirt at that time with a picture of Abraham Lincoln and the motto: sic semper tyrannis (' Thus always to tyrants '), the state motto of Virginia and also the words shouted by John Wilkes Booth after he shot Lincoln.
Another legend claims that following the Navigation Acts ( an ordinance by Oliver Cromwell requiring all foreign fleets in the North Sea or the Channel to dip their flag in salute ) the Wilhelmus was sung ( or rather, shouted ) by the sailors on the Dutch flagship Brederode in response to the first warning shot fired by an English fleet under Robert Blake, when their captain Maarten Tromp refused to lower his flag.
Named after Meriwether Lewis and after Victor Trevitt's hometown of Lewiston, Maine ; but people don't know that was the reason Vic Trevitt shouted the idea out.
When Hera discovered the trickery, she was so annoyed she punished the talkative Echo by taking away her voice, except in foolish repetition of another's shouted words.

shouted and at
I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.
Feebly he pointed an accusing finger at Madame Lalaurie and shouted: `` Evil woman!!
In the meadow below, militia officers shouted at their men and on King's Bridge two boys sat fishing.
An old gentlemen next to me held a Boy Scout bugle to his lips and blasted away at every fourth step and during the interim shouted out, `` V for Victory ''!!
Listenin' with wonder at the strange words of the bullwhackers as they shouted `` Whoa '', `` Haw '', and `` Gee '', they thought them words the names of the animals, and began callin' cattle `` wohaws ''.
He shouted at her and told her he loved her and couldn't understand why she had upset herself.
Someone shouted at him, `` Well!!
The half-man received a dromozootic implant, turned red in the face, shouted senselessly at Mercer, `` Take it out, you fool!!
" has also been shouted during the anthem at Washington Redskins and Washington Capitals home games.
Xerxes is then said to have thrown fetters into the strait, given it three hundred lashes and branded it with red-hot irons as the soldiers shouted at the water.
Some public opinion has started to turn against Hezbollah for their support of Syrian President Assad's attacks on the opposition movement in Syria Crowds in Cairo shouted out against Iran and Hezbollah, at a public speech by Hamas President Ismail Haniya in February 2012, when Hamas changed its support to the Syrian opposition.
When the leadership gathered at Stalin's dacha at Kuntsevo Stalin shouted at Voroshilov who replied in kind, blaming the failure on Stalin for killing the Red Army's best generals in his purges.
When a young mechanic failed to repair the car in a way satisfactory to Stein, the garage owner shouted at the boy, " You are all a " génération perdue.
' bass-player Dee Dee Ramone shouted at the start of every song, as if the group could barely master the rudiments of rhythm.
Hostility to the Catholic Church became so great that at one point, FSLN militants shouted down Pope John Paul II as he tried to say Mass.
Bystanders recalled that the woman, whose identity remains unknown, sparked the crowd to fight when she looked at bystanders and shouted, " Why don't you guys do something?
The motion to seat him passed by a tally of 162 – 1 ; however, at the time a quorum consisted of 165 votes, and when voting closed Democrats shouted " No quorum ," triggering a formal House quorum count.
We could have stepped aside from that task and then shouted, and that would be the end of our contribution ... They would shout back at us and that would be the end of the story.

shouted and .
Calhoun shouted.
Montero shouted furiously.
This time he delayed so long that some of the engages shouted frantically, but they held their fire.
He shouted.
Popping upright, the marine waved both hands and shouted.
The marine shouted for it until it seemed that his voice had to crack.
Suddenly one of them shouted, ran a few feet, bent forward and put his mouth to the ground.
`` I'm mad '', shouted Payne, as he ran out into the hall.
`` Infectious hepatitis '', he shouted heartily.
He shouted.
Jennie had shouted each time.
His followers shouted the old battle cry after him and charged the hill, firing as they ran.
Vince shouted finally, `` Get her over to Rose's and I'll come by and see that she stays put ''.
`` Hey, come back '', he shouted.
Everything shouted gentleman farming, the kind of grandfather-father-to-son folding money the Point is known for.
When I told him someone had torn it out, he shouted.
He began to wish that he hadn't shouted that other evening when the truck bore down through the crossing.
The final group included folk songs from back home, stomped out, shouted and chanted with irresistible spirit and in cowboy costume.
He shouted.
He shouted like a hoarse old mastiff, his hair stiff and bristling.

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