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  • Pursuing Leoman of the Flails and the remnant of the rebellion, the 14th Army is in bad shape.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Neth 2006

  • Pursuing Leoman of the Flails and the remnant of the rebellion, the 14th Army is in bad shape.

    Neth Space Neth 2006

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'GOP Flails as Bush Fails'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'To shift the focus away from a failing, vacationing president, GOP operatives in the Jewish community are now laughably claiming that a protester outside Bush\'s ranch -- a mother of a son lost in Iraq -- somehow represents the Democratic Party position on Israel ...

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: GOP Flails as Bush Fails 2005

  • Flails had been made by tying pieces of wood to cricket stumps.

    Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

  • Flails, fanning machines for cleaning grain, water wheels for saw or grist mills, were all made within the state.

    From the Cotton Field to the Cotton Mill: A Study of the Industrial Transition in North Carolina 1906

  • I have seen a couple of these clumsy Combatants drub one another with as little Manners of Mercy as if they had two Flails in their Hands; Children at Play with Case-knives could not give you more Apprehension of their doing one another a Mischief.

    An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

  • Flails whirred in the branches, clouds of olives thudded to the ground on to canvases spread for their collection.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2012

  • Reason. com on BHL (read especially Michael Moynihan's "The God That Flails.")

    Reason Magazine Nick Gillespie 2010

  • Reason. com on BHL (read especially Michael Moynihan's "The God That Flails.")

    Libertarian Blog Place Various Libertarian Bloggers 2010

  • Reason. com on BHL (read especially Michael Moynihan's "The God That Flails.")

    Reason Magazine 2010

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