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  • Before our "archies" could get forward, the Hun aeroplanes had very much their own way, and, flying low, dropped bombs and machine-gunned us in a manner that was most uncomfortable.

    With the British Army in The Holy Land

  • The men never tired of looking at the air fighting and watching the work of the "archies" as the anti-aircraft guns were called.

    History of the 113th Field Artillery 30th Division 1920

  • The crash of air bombs and the thudding of the distant monitors were quite familiar sounds to the German garrison, whose "archies" (anti-aircraft guns) barked hoarsely back, while the bigger guns roared at where they thought the monitors might be.

    Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905

  • I can see it now: the clock ticking … the archies sweating … spades flying like mad … the narrator breathlessly warning that time is running out … and those deep-pocketed American production values kicking in as we cut to the shot of the huge earth mover revving its engine, ready to level everything for a new freeway bypass.

    What’s the Hurry, Time Team? 2009

  • I can see it now: the clock ticking … the archies sweating … spades flying like mad … the narrator breathlessly warning that time is running out … and those deep-pocketed American production values kicking in as we cut to the shot of the huge earth mover revving its engine, ready to level everything for a new freeway bypass.

    What’s the Hurry, Time Team? 2009

  • The Head Heeb blog has been posting interesting bits and pieces from the Old Bailey archies for several years now: link vasiQuote

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674–1834: 2007

  • So there must be some kind of administration, perhaps organized roughly in hier - archies, like the divisions and subdivisions of an in - dustry or of a human political society.

    True Names Vinge, Vernor 1984

  • In particular, as against the Marxist contention that the only basic source of power is the ownership of means of production, Weber argued that in the modern world commanding positions in a variety of administrative and bureaucratic hier - archies may confer social power on men whose purely economic power is minimal and who have but little social honor (Weber, 1946).

    CLASS LEWIS A. COSER 1968

  • As soon as one of them was picked out in the rays of a searchlight, others would concentrate at once on it, whereupon the archies immediately opened fire.

    Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery C. A. Rose

  • The archies shoot all day at the planes but it dont seem to bother them much.

    "Same old Bill, eh Mable!" Edward Streeter 1933

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