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They tore down statues and side-altars and destroyed artwork and reliquaries.
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They captured and destroyed Arkona, the Wendish temple fortress, and tore down the statue of the Wendish god, Svantevit.
They tore the curtains, dashed in pieces the carved work of brass and stone, brake the altars, spoilt the clothes and corporesses, wrested the irons, conveyed away or brake the chalices and vestiments, pulled up the brass of the gravestones, not sparing the glass and seats which were made about the pillars of the church for men to sit in.
They pulled Pentheus down and tore him from limb from limb ( as part of a ritual known as the sparagmos ).
They tore off the bottom third of the flag, and separated the red and white colors from the blue color.
They tore him to pieces.
They soon outgrew this facility, tore it down, and built a new brick building on the same site.
They hurled the rib-boomerang and tore a huge hole in the clouds which startled Bobbi-Bobbi so much that he failed to catch the boomerang which fell back to Earth and killed the foolish men.
They also burned Union supplies and tore up the railroad tracks before retreating.
They tore it down and hung a Union flag in its place.
: They struck others in the shoulders and tore their arms from their bodies.
They crossed the Uji River, just outside the Byōdō-in, and tore up the planks of the bridge behind them to prevent the Taira following them.
They immediately demanded their money back and, when the manager refused, they tipped over trashcans, threw popcorn at the screen and " almost tore the theatre apart.
They tore down the British works, and began construction of the fort they called Fort Duquesne.
They tore out aluminum benches and started to replace them with 3, 200 dark green seats with cup holders.
They stopped at the elm tree, tore off the bands, and cut it down, in spite of all resistance.
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They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
They escorted him down from the porch and through the rain to his office.
They lapsed into silence, and the freight wallowed up a hill, scooted down the other side, shaking and clanking to itself.
They went down in a heap and for a long minute there was nothing to see but flailing arms and legs.
They lay, with the birds hopping from branch to branch above them and the bright sky peeping down at them.
On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.
They insist they are ashamed of such violence and intimidation as occurred in Alabama when the Freedom Riders sought to break down racial discrimination in local bus depots.
They don't expect to stop him, just slow him down some with the bat.
They crept down the muddy slope toward the waiting boats.
They cantered down the peninsula, not slackening until the coach reached Woodside where the Santa Cruz uplands begin.
They are laid a minimum of 24'' '' deep and in some areas four feet down, particularly under roads, to stay clear of all other piping such as water and sewers and to minimize shocks from heavy trucking.
They love to dust, scrub, polish, wax floors, move the furniture around from place to place, take down the curtains, put up new ones and have themselves a real ball.
They hurled a cement barge against a freighter in Honolulu Harbor, knocked down telephone lines, marooned automobiles, flooded lawns, killed six cows.
They threatened constantly to give the British a hold on this region, from whence they could move easily down the rivers to the French settlements near the Gulf.
They bore down on him.
They would be coming for him next, bearing down on him from both directions.
They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.
They had all turned down his son.
They breakfasted together, but Martin did not refer to his triumph, and Dolores found a great deal to do in the kitchen, bobbing up and down from the table so that talk was impossible.
They took nearly a month to investigate, marshal statistics, and put their arguments down in black and white.
They ignored the ladder down to the planet surface and, with only a glance at the seismological gauge to judge surface resistance, dropped to the ground.
They have more slender muzzles, sharper ears that they use in the hunt for termites, black vertical stripes on a coat of yellowish fur, and a long, distinct manes down the midlines of their necks and backs.
They settled down near Kurile Lake, which was inhabited by the Kamchatka Ainu and North Kuril Ainu.
They would have traveled overland down through the Appalachian Mountains to the Scots-Irish community in the Waxhaws region, straddling the border between North and South Carolina.
They also had a flag carrier at the front who guided the forces behind him ; when the flag was upright the combatants behind would stand and when turned down, they would sit.
They and statues
They dug up a speech he had made two years earlier as a Congressman, decrying the more than two hundred statues, monuments, and memorials which `` dot the Washington landscape as patriotic societies and zealous friends are constantly hatching new plans ''.
They had initially set up wooden statues of Artemis, a bretas, ( Pausanias, ( fl. c. 160 ): Description of Greece, Book I: Attica ).< ref >
They can be figureheads of religions and can be accessed in modern times by religious statues.
They drew further criticism when they destroyed the Buddhas of Bamyan, historical statues nearly 1500 years old, because the buddhas were considered idols.
They built enormous stone statues carved in the image of human beings on Pitcairn, the Marquesas, and Easter Island that resembled those in Peru.
Butterfly continues to show Pinkerton her other little treasures, including several little statues: " They are the spirits of my ancestors.
They commissioned statues, temples and buildings of gleaming marble.
They were originally a version of the shedu, protective deities sometimes found as pairs of colossal statues either side of objects to be protected, such as doorways.
The two monumental iron statues of reclining lions placed in an area in front of the Holsten Gate designed by Harry Maasz date from 1823 and are unsigned They are attributed to Christian Daniel Rauch and may possibly have been made with the collaboration of a member of Rauch ’ s workshop, Th.
They roost together in buildings or on walls or statues.
They appear frequently on statues and reliefs during the reign of their father and also are represented by smaller objects — with the exception of Nebetah .< ref > Kozloff, Arielle.
The spina eventually became very elaborate, with statues and obelisks and other forms of art, but the multiplication of the adornments of the spina had one unfortunate result: They became so numerous that they obstructed the view of spectators on lower seats.
They include the larger than life statues of gods ( including enthroned Jupiter ) at Petinesca, Engehalbinsel and Thun-Allmendingen and a number of inscriptions.
They contain Le Brun's residence and workshops that served as foundries for most of the bronze statues in the park of Versailles, as well as looms on which tapestries are woven following seventeenth century techniques.
They did put gardens around temples and they adorned walkways and roads with statues, but the ornate and pleasure gardens that demonstrated wealth in the other communities is seemingly absent.
They were replaced in 1708 by a large pair of wooden statues carved by Captain Richard Saunders.
They sometimes ended with statues, such as in Milan Cathedral.
They are of a traditional design and were originally beacons to guide the soul of the deceased, The road leads to 18 pairs of stone statues of mythical animals, which are all sculpted from whole stones and larger than life size, leading to a three-arched gate known as the Dragon and Phoenix Gate.
They frequently disagreed and Mrs Rylands selected decorative elements, window glass and statues against his wishes.
They can be used to reinforce the primacy of contemporary political power, such as the column of Trajan or the numerous statues of Lenin in the Soviet Union.
" They came out with a consensus that the statues were against Islam ," said Jamal.
They encountered two Indian Buddhist monks in Afghanistan, and persuaded them to join them and return to China, bringing their book of Buddhist scriptures, relics and statues of Buddha with them on two white horses.
They corrupt the souls of men by passions and lusts and rather successfully procuring “ for themselves a proper diet of fumes and blood offered to their statues images ”.
They sprinkled the statues of the gods with his blood ( see Blót ) and the good harvests returned.
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