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Usage examples of tackle.

Saint Kevin if he cud, but mind ye, the blessed saint was so well beknownst to all the counthry, that the divil was afeared to tackle him.

She had the broad features common to the Akka people and the broad shoulders of a woman who has tackled a lot of reindeer, and it was hard to tell whether she contemplated those dogs with such an avid gaze because they looked fit to serve her, or to be eaten for supper.

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The arsonist propped the detached pane against the wall carefully, well out of his way, and reached into the first tackle bag.

It was he, I freely admit, who had given me a degree of comfort in tackling the question of who had killed poor Justin Ascham Raleigh.

French Hospital, with its up-to-date modern operating theatre for tackling the wounds in a strictly aseptic and scientific way within a few hours of the men being hit, are a tremendous help.

Into this hole, the end of the second alternating great tackle is then hooked so as to retain a hold upon the blubber, in order to prepare for what follows.

Meanwhile the gun crews knocked out the wedges and, heaving at the tackles, ran out the culver ins On either side of the lower deck there were eight, each loaded with a bucketful of powder and a ball.

We found a good anchor point for our block and tackle and while Chubby rigged it, I left him and floated back to the nearest cabin.

When Cowan tried a flying tackle, Yosha met it with a smashing knee that knocked him rolling to the floor.

Theo crawled across the ground and tackled the dead thing, which pulled Cumber down as well.

Avelyn meant to get to the dactyl, to tackle the damned thing and beat it with his bare hands if he had to!

That was the second time today someone had tackled him like a damned linebacker.

She pointed out that there are any number of words for penis that can be used pretty much with ease on the Beeb knob, willy, percy, portion, member, todger, tackle, dangler, sausage, John Thomas, Dick Dastardly, meat and two veg and Uncle Tom Cobblers and all.

He was not large enough to tackle a huge animal like diplodocus if she was in her own element, but he had found that usually when the large reptiles came into the stream, there was something wrong with them, and twice he had been able to hack one down.