Those in contention left to block attacks

Usage examples of battlers.

A thought sent the appropriate commands flashing out to the battlers' command pilots.

All three battlers were within range, now, but it was imperative that they achieve both high coordination and high precision in their attack.

One of the battlers had been destroyed, a second so badly damaged that it might well be useful only as salvage.

Information retained during my period of semir-dormant captivity indicates that these are ground battlers, high-speed tanks massing perhaps 4,000 tons apiece, with particle cannons in quad or quint hull-mounted arrays.

The two-kiloton low-yield nuclear warheads detonate just above the battlers' positions.

She was well dressed, in a casual way, and Malone wondered if she looked as elegant as this, Monday to Friday, when handing out comfort and advice to the battlers.

Life was getting tough for the battlers, even the middle-class yuppies.

But the atmosphere was the same, a hundred years or more of battlers' hopes that had gone mouldy, never able to escape through the front door to realization.

In the main this was battlers' territory, where no one dreamed of jade or diamonds but every week bought lottery tickets, where to survive without debt was some sort of riches.

An instant later, Old Battlers angry roar told him the hound was running loose and had prowled into something it disapproved of down there.

Of all the battlers here, only Cerise had a personal reason for hating the Shinyar.

He loosened his hand-axe again in its loop and at the next pause in the fight, both battlers having outguessed each other by retreating simultaneously, whipped it up and hurled it at his adversary's face.

As the kid and I headed out, O'Hanrahan returned from de positing the battlers on the sidewalk.

Sometimes the old battlers are actually fooled by public approval into believing they really care for one another, but this mood is speedily dissipated when presently they retire to bed to lie in the darkness, wondering why they had not given each other pulverized glass somewhere between the paper and the wooden, when they still had a chance to carry on with a mate who would have understood them.

This routine went on for many months, during which she saw many of her new friends and fellow cancer battlers in the program weaken and die.