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  • Daylight's breaking of extra horses to pay for the materials, and the brother devoted a three weeks 'vacation to assisting, and together they installed a Pelting wheel.

    Chapter XXVI 2010

  • Came dark, overcast days, stiff, driving winds and Pelting rains, day on day, without end, and the city folk cowered in their dwelling-places like flood-beset rats; and like rats, half-drowned and gasping, when the weather cleared they crawled out and up the green Piedmont slopes to bask in the blessed sunshine.

    The Golden Poppy 2010

  • Pelting the BNP Leader Nick Griffin with eggs is not the way forward.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Mark Reckons 2009

  • Pelting the BNP Leader Nick Griffin with eggs is not the way forward.

    Eggs Mark Reckons 2009

  • Pelting each other with the flowers of the Kadamba tree, and many other sports which may either be known to the whole country, or may be peculiar to particular parts of it.

    The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana 2006

  • Pelting through the gates of the castle, in any weather, at any hour, no matter if Liir had just laid out a couple of coddled eggs for her.

    Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

  • Pelting rain is flooding parts of the city, and people are being rescued from rooftops.

    CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2004 2004

  • Pelting through the grass, Conan roared the war-cry to distract the enemy; but the cultists did not trouble to look back.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • Pelting through the grass, Conan roared the war-cry to distract the enemy; but the cultists did not trouble to look back.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • After the Pelting of the Pastor with Coin, the Pastor should preach a Waiver of Blame; all Members agree as loudly as possible that they are not “guilty” of anything, or, if they are, that they are proud of it.

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

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