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Usage examples of magnum.

It must have been a magnum because the hydrostatic shock had knocked the sergeant out and, as Sam rolled him over to look at the exit wound, also small and bleeding only slightly, the sergeant opened his eyes and tried to sit up.

Pacino cut him off, wondering how Rapier could argue, with the pinging of the Magnum coming in louder every second.

A trifle more impressible, he might have imagined the smoky figure and magnum of pursiness barring the City against him.

Ostendit cives Romanos, qui eius praesidi fiducia una erant: magnum numerum frumenti commeatusque diripit, ipsos crudeliter excruciatos interficit.

It was a fifty-three-foot Magnum Maltese Flybridge cruiser, built in North Miami Beach.

Hi paucos dies morati ex finibus Cadurcorum, qui partim re frumentaria sublevare eos cupiebant, partim prohibere quo minus sumerent non poterant, magnum numerum frumenti comparant, nonnumquam autem expeditionibus nocturnis castella nostrorum adoriuntur.

The Kaliningrad had had no accurate range at the time of launch so the Magnum swam out the bearing line toward the aim-point--the point that the target, hull number 666, was expected to be at expected detonation time, ten minutes after launch.

As Vlasenko sat in the cold of the pod, his breath still clouding the air, his mind on terrible events he had no power to change, a Magnum nuclear-tipped torpedo only seven kilometers away, launched by the Kaliningrad, began to explode.

He was pleased because the powerful magnum version of the rimfire 22-caliber bullet was rare ammunition and therefore would be easier to trace.

The Crom Magnum veetar was placed carefully in its armored case, and the antitheft system was put on-line.

On the table, with candlesticks around it, was a big white cake and a box of chocolates, and beside these a basket with a magnum of champagne peeking out of crushed ice.

As one generation of satellites replaced another and more variations were added, codenames multiplied: Canon, Chalet, Vortex, Magnum, Orion, Mercury.

That is why most Wood aficionados consider his magnum opus to be an intergalactic graverobber movie called Plan 9 from Outer Space.

She no doubt longed to see me perform the magnum opus, but the gentle Armelline would not allow me to go so far.

At the same instant the image of a great banquet hall filled her mind: steaming roasts, stuffed fish, smoking steaks, magnums of champagne, frigates filled with gravy, rivers of red wine.