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Usage examples of beat.

Heart beating too fast, Abrim suited up and stepped into the personnel lock.

Beats on his struggling form, which sinks at length Prone, and the aereal ice clings over it.

It worked, up until he tried to beat some Afghani smugglers at their own game.

Our great Washington found that out, and the British officer that beat Bonaparte, the bread they gave him turned sour afore he got half through the loaf.

Marks and Charlie Akers hauled Nash into Module Three, the storage compartment across the corridor from the command center, and there they beat the shit out of him.

There was still a beaten way between the tree-boles, though not overwide, albeit, a highway, since it pierced the wood.

A series of loud crashes from behind it quickly followed as Alec and Wethis beat a hasty retreat.

And it said that the men had beaten its ayah, but that the havildar Ben Allar had sent it down the road to ask its way to the house of the Nawab.

As usual, when I used the loo I found that someone with pubic alopecia had beaten me to it.

And in those same dreams she would dance naked before Amir Bedawi, moving ever closer and closer to him, drawn like a moth beating its wings too close to the flame.

Laura could neither stop the beating, nor get it across to Masri that Amir was in danger.

I beat the bush to flush out whoever was behind my amnesia, I got you.

Emaa had tried to force her into living in Niniltna, the womb to which she had fled from the stifling, swarming confines of college, the place waiting for her on long weekends and vacations between time on the job in Anchorage, the one place in the world able to heal the wounds inflicted by five and a half years of casework featuring raped and beaten women and abused children, her home, her center, her sanctuary, her refuge.

Life, ordered irregularity, aperiodic crystal, signal in a field of noise, required that wonder and reverence, both coded for, beat out success if anything is to survive.

He saw that he was on the highest point of the island,a statue on this vast pedestal of granite, nothing human appearing in sight, while the blue ocean beat against the base of the island, and covered it with a fringe of foam.