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The sick swarmed so around him that he had to have a body-guard to keep them at bay; so he chose twenty of the least sick from among those who had talked with him after sunrise.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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In the meanwhile Major Young had come to New Orleans, and organized there a band of men to act as a body-guard for Caravajal, the old wretch having induced him to accept the proposition by representing that it had my concurrence.
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If I read the picture above the page right, it seems the director also cameo'd as body-guard; clever, too. so, just as fyit; yes, wife and kids liked it; good all-around; yes, be careful with sequel and don't go to cheap or stupid humour. keep it smart.
Jon Favreau Starts Talking the Future of Iron Man « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The other six blind men came struggling to be next, and while King rubbed ointment on their eyes and saw that there was nothing there he could cure the whole camp began to surge toward him to see the miracle, and his chosen body-guard rushed up to drive them back.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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Pheap, a body-guard of Major Lak Ki, in his late twenties.
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Such soldiers by profession were easily distinguished from the peaceful citizens; and it was with some evident show of fear as well as dislike, that the passengers observed to each other, that the stranger was a Varangian, an expression which intimated a barbarian of the imperial body-guard.
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Donnerhugel, so much younger than his brethren in the same important commission, took the command of this mountain body-guard, whom he usually accompanied in their sportive excursions.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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The portion of the body-guard had beaten back the Arabs, and their gallant leader had slain their chief Jezdegerd, in which service he was mortally wounded, as this history hath already mentioned.
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Dok Rany, 27, an officer and body-guard of Gen. Chao Sambath who worked at the Research and Intelligence Bureau.
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Photographs of the body made it possible to identify him as Pheap, a body-guard of Major Lak Ki (see photograph 2).
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