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  • Mr. Harding, standing at the opposite end spewing a constant stream of lecture onto some upper-class Sigma Nu's, halted and called to Billy, who was standing right beside the problem, to retie it.

    Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 2 2009

  • Parliament voted unanimously to approve U Nu's assumption of the premiership.

    1957, Feb. 28 2001

  • Ne Win led an army coup that deposed U Nu's civilian government.

    1961, Oct. 13 2001

  • The black servants and the Waziri warriors, some of whom were always visiting their former chief, presented to Nu's nostrils an unfamiliar scent -- one which made the black shock upon his head stiffen as you have seen the hair upon the neck of a white man's hound stiffen when the for the first time his nose detects the odor of an Indian.

    The Eternal Savage 1914

  • Then we will return to the coast, fearless of enemies, find the boat and go back to Nu's country.

    The Eternal Savage 1914

  • It was Nu's quick ears that first detected the stealthy movement in the reeds behind him, down wind, where his scent must have been carrying tidings of his presence to whatever roamed abroad in that locality.

    The Eternal Savage 1914

  • It was evident that Nu's assault upon the sentry of the previous night taken with the capture of this stranger and the appearance of Nu and Gron upon the cliff the day before had filled the villagers with fear of an invasion from the south.

    The Eternal Savage 1914

  • Not an hour after Barney Custer discovered Nu's absence a native runner had come hurrying in from the north to beg Lord Greystoke's help in pursuing and punishing a band of Arab slave and ivory raiders who were laying waste the villages, murdering the old men and the children and carrying the young men and women into slavery.

    The Eternal Savage 1914

  • As he forged on the scent of Ta became stronger, until at last the huge, ungainly beast loomed large before Nu's eyes.

    The Eternal Savage 1914

  • Words of thanks were already upon Nu's lips; but Gron stood silent, ready to meet them -- with bared knife.

    The Eternal Savage 1914

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