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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 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 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 out aluminum benches and started to replace them with 3, 200 dark green seats with cup holders.
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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 lapsed into silence, and the freight wallowed up a hill, scooted down the other side, shaking and clanking to itself.
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 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 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 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 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.
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They lived in small huts made of palm leaves over a rounded branch structure, with hammocks hung between the interior walls for sleeping.
However, in his Histories, ix. 120 – 122, the Greek writer Herodotus describes the execution of a Persian general at the hands of Athenians in about 479 BC: " They nailed him to a plank and hung him up ... this Artayctes who suffered death by crucifixion.
They were made of ivory or metal, occasionally jewelled, more than an inch in diameter, and hung upon the mouth.
They are hung in the north-east corner of the tower, and the ringing chamber is partitioned off from the rest of the tower.
For the refrain, Lennon was again inspired by his childhood memories: the words " nothing to get hung about " were inspired by Aunt Mimi's strict order not to play in the grounds of Strawberry Field, to which Lennon replied, " They can't hang you for it.
They hung a 563 m ( 1848 ft ) clothesline along the entire span of the bridge, and decked it out with 1, 000 pairs of underwear including knickers, panties, bloomers and thongs.
They would also have had a light wooden lance, known as a kontarion and a bow ( toxarion ) with forty arrows in a quiver, hung from a saddle or from the belt.
They narrowly escape the computer vault and are forced to cross the lights hung from the bottom of the bridge linking the two towers.
They pull off the mask of the corpse of Spider-Man hung in their mantel and find out that Kaine is in Spider-Man's costume.
They were stored in intricately carved boxes called waka huia, which were hung from the ceilings of chiefs ' houses.
They may have functioned as a reminder to himself, and the text may actually have been hung above his writing-desk.
They are the only surviving members of a set of ten cartoons commissioned by Pope Leo X for tapestries for the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Palace, which are still ( on special occasions ) hung below Michelangelo's famous ceiling.
They hung up a banner calling for the resignation of the Minister for Children Margaret Hodge, who they held responsible for perceived inequalities in family law.
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