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He staggered into the back seat and lay back, fighting for breath.
Moments later, Mosley unleashed another flurry as Vargas could only protect his face, and the referee stopped the fight at 2: 38 as a beaten and disoriented Vargas staggered back to his corner.
Dalton stood up after a few moments and staggered before slowly walking off stage, his back to the audience.
Both men traded punches before Douglas connected on a multi-punch combination that staggered Tyson back to the ropes.
As of 2008, the American Standard Stratocasters ( which are updates to the American Series line ) come with hand-rolled fingerboard edges, alnico V pickups, staggered tuners, improved bridge with bent steel saddles and copper-infused high-mass block for increased resonance and sustain, tinted neck, high-gloss maple or rosewood fretboard, satin neck back for smooth playability, thin-finish undercoat that lets the body breathe and improves resonance, and Fender exclusive SKB molded case.
Hurt, Cummings decided to open the letter on his way back home to see what had been inside, and was staggered to learn that his doctor had diagnosed him as suffering from the disease now known as multiple sclerosis, and that he almost certainly had less than five years to live.
When he was shot in the back by the clone of Baron Bedlam, the bullets staggered him, but they did not puncture his skin.
We stood aside, watching for any countenance we knew, and presently great bundles of paper began to be carried out -- bundles in bags, bundles too large to be got into any bags, immense masses of papers of all shapes and no shapes, which the bearers staggered under, and threw down for the time being, anyhow, on the Hall pavement, while they went back to bring out more.
The disrespectful peasant screamed and staggered back with his arms held up as though he was warding off something threatening.
Pellar and Jacobs, both wounded, staggered back the way they had come.
Once inside the gatehouse, any attacker would have to get past a portcullis, five murder holes set in the ceiling of the large entrance passage, an internal gunport in the back wall opposite the doorway and a staggered approach to the ward.
This engine configuration can also be described as a " staggered six ", in keeping with the narrow angle geometry of the Lancia Fulvia staggered-four, developed in the late-1950s ( a continuation of Lancia's V4 design practice dating back to the 1920s ).
Downs staggered back to the basement door, opened it, slid in, then slammed the door behind him, depriving Torresola of entry into the Blair-Lee House.
He staggered outside towards the waiting taxi, while one of his companions fled out the back door of the house.
He staggered to his feet after being knocked down, only for Haye to immediately pounce right back on him, hitting him with another flurry of punches.
Out on the plain Troilus finds Achilles and, staggered that the Greek army is back again, engages Achilles and slays him, though he is wounded in the process.
Mawson staggered back into the Cape Denison hut a month later, missing the Aurora by a matter of hours ; she had waited for Mertz, Mawson and Ninnis for three weeks until — concerned by the encroaching winter ice — Davis had sailed her out of Commonwealth Bay and back to Australia.
: Following the torches as they dipped and swayed in the darkness, they climbed mountain paths with head thrown back and eyes glazed, dancing to the beat of the drum which stirred their blood ' ' staggered drunkenly with what was known as the Dionysus gait '.
Clark, stricken with sudden pain, staggered back looking ghastly ; he was experiencing his first bout of Kryptonite poisoning.
It also features a four-wheel independent unequal length double wishbone suspension with four oil filled coilover shocks and progressive rate springs in staggered lengths (" long " up front ; " XXlong " in back ).
Levitow, though stunned by the concussion of the blast and suffering from over 40 fragment wounds in the back and legs, staggered to his feet and turned to assist the man nearest to him who had been knocked down and was bleeding heavily.
The Extreme H < sub > 2 </ sub > O Zone first opened at the back of the park for during 2006 with three rides with staggered openings.

staggered and group
The other group of three Trustees are also elected for four-year terms, but this election is staggered and takes place two years after the first group.
It is arranged in an L-shape, and at one end there is a tokonoma, and to its right there is a chigaidana ( a staggered group of ornamental shelves ).
The board consists of a rotating group of journalists, writers, educators and community leaders with staggered terms to assure continuity and renewal.

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She got to her feet, staggered, and almost fell.
McBride staggered into the street, flopped sprawling in the stinging dust.
but jumping right up, he staggered in no particular direction.
In the very front rank, two men were wounded and staggered along, trailing blood behind them.
Fists pummeled him as he staggered forward.
He staggered over and dropped it on the table.
He said his plan is designed to `` meet the needs of those millions who have no wish to receive care at the taxpayers' expense, but who are nevertheless staggered by the drain on their savings -- or those of their children -- caused by an extended hospital stay ''.
Mitchell was for using it, Jones against, and Sen. Wayne Dumont Jr. R-Warren did not mention it when the three Republican gubernatorial candidates spoke at staggered intervals before 100 persons at the Park Hotel.
Kowalski, a roofer who seldom worked last winter, already was in arrears on their recently purchased split-level home when the tragedy staggered him with medical and funeral bills.
Council members are elected to four-year terms, staggered every two years.
They have four free saccate sepals and four clawed free petals, staggered.
The basic step is danced in a face-to-face (" closed ") but staggered position ( i. e., the lead and follow are chest to chest, but their orientation to one another is offset in such a way that the feet are not toe-to-toe but alternate, like the teeth of a zipper ).
Can also be built with staggered wooden blocks.
Can also be built with staggered wooden blocks.
Governors are appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate for staggered 14-year terms.
The design of the first Stars and Stripes by Hopkinson had the thirteen stars arranged in a " staggered " pattern technically known as quincuncial because it is based on the repetition of a motif of five units.
Here they are shown in a staggered conformation.
Ball-and-stick model of a metallocene molecule where the cyclopentadienyl anions are in a staggered conformation.
Vertically staggered bonds tend to be somewhat stronger and less prone to major cracking than a non-staggered bond.
* LCD screens typically use a staggered grid, where the red, green, and blue components are sampled at slightly different locations.
The drum can be a resource that acts as a constraint across projects, which are staggered based on the availability of that single resource.
'" Even his friend, the novelist Charles Kingsley, wrote that he had read " no other book which so staggered and puzzled " him, that he could not believe that God had " written on the rocks one enormous and superfluous lie for all mankind.
As Finland looked to have lost the team medal, the disoriented Liimatainen staggered into the stadium, but was barely moving forward.

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