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It had destroyed what were the two former foremost military powers, the Sassanid Empire, which it absorbed completely, and the greater part of the Byzantine Empire, including Syria, Armenia and North Africa, although Leo the Isaurian stemmed the tide when he defeated the Umayyads at the Battle of Akroinon ( 739 ), their final campaign in Anatolia.
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The thoroughgoing idealization of the planter society did not come, however, until after the Civil War when Southern writers were eager to defend a way of life which had been destroyed.
Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.
of their first engagement at Falling Waters after Old Jack's First Brigade had destroyed all the rolling stock of the B & O Railroad.
Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.
The Egyptians eventually withdrew from the region after failing to gain the upper hand over the Hittites, and becoming wary of the power of Assyria, which had destroyed the Mitanni Empire.
The castle of Abensberg was destroyed during the Thirty Years ' War, although the city had bought a guarantee of protection from the Swesidh general, Carl Gustaf Wrangel.
Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.
Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.
With great strategic skill, Cyrus had destroyed Lydia in 546 B. C. E.
On returning, Fleming noticed that one culture was contaminated with a fungus, and that the colonies of staphylococci that had immediately surrounded it had been destroyed, whereas other colonies farther away were normal.
In his old age Salieri hinted that these works were either purposely destroyed, or had been lost with the exception of a few works for the church.
The earlier archbishopric seat in Hamburg had been attacked and destroyed several times, and thereafter the sees of Hamburg and Bremen were combined for protection.
Nazi rule destroyed Berlin's Jewish community, which had numbered 170, 000 before 1933.
Clinton was subsequently criticized when it turned out that a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan ( originally alleged to be a chemical warfare plant ) had been destroyed.
The White Stockings were close contenders all season, despite the fact that the Great Chicago Fire had destroyed the team's home field and most of their equipment.
Moreover, the myth of French invincibility had been destroyed and Louis's hopes of an early and victorious peace had been wrenched from his grasp.
However, earlier controversies over impact of the Boston extension of the Massachusetts Turnpike, particularly on the heavily populated neighborhood of Brighton, and the large number of additional homes that would have had to be destroyed, led to massive community opposition to both the Inner Belt and the Boston section of I-95.
" By then, the U. S. and U. K. had transparently destroyed all their bioweapons stockpiles.
Jerusalem had been conquered and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC and Nehemiah finds it still in ruins.
Jonah had already uttered his message of warning, and Nahum was followed by Zephaniah, who also predicted ( Zephaniah 2: 4-15 ) the destruction of the city, predictions which were remarkably fulfilled ( 625 BC ) when Nineveh was destroyed apparently by fire, and the Assyrian empire came to an end, an event which changed the face of Asia.
Nineveh is compared to Thebes, the Egyptian city that Assyria itself had destroyed in 663 BCE.
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She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;
He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.
He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
Surprisingly, he had told the others what he had done.
But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.
Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.
Not that her mother knew what had happened, but they could speculate upon it.
He had found Curt's weakness, or what to Jess was a weakness, and was smart enough to take advantage of it.
`` It's within a hundred of what Crip had '', he declared.
Hardly had Mrs. Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck, father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty's '' Ford sedan, came screeching to a dust-swirling stop, and a brown face appeared, its nose threatened by shards of what had once been the side window.
Anyway, it was evident what he had in mind ''.
As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
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His visitors had crawled through the south fence and were crossing the meadow, angling toward the house.
First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.
The explosion of the rifle had crashed against the walls of the stockade and the deep echoes were still rolling in the hills.
All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.
Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.
He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I had felt the draft they were making while mounting the stairs.
The forest had become an alien world where she strove, alone, unprotected, unguided, to deal with whatever hindrances were offered.
He could not grasp that Lord had withdrawn from the fight minutes ago, and that his leaden arms were flailing at nothing but the air.
Even in the very area where the shooting had been done, cattle were still disappearing.
Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.
Johnson's fat hand, another bottle were protruding from the truck cab, and that self-proclaimed Baptist teetotaler, had a bottle at his own lips.
The bars were marked as Walter had marked them in a small black book kept in a nearly secret drawer.
Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.
Within a decade or less, few men were left and a feminist society had sprung up.
The fear had not entirely gone from her face, but there were some other emotions now, crowding into her eyes and the lines of her mouth.
Wet also were the marine's fatigues and the face had an oily film.
His superiors had said that all marines were depraved.
The Reverend James Doran had scarcely completed Pat Conyers' last rites on Boot Hill in the township of Petrie, when shots were heard in the distance.
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