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Premier Inn London Stratford Ideal for a pre-Christmas trip to Westfield shopping centre; a javelin's throw from the Olympic Stadium.

Meet Santa - in deepest Kent 2011

When this impetus is exhausted by contact with the air, the javelin's weight imparts a downwards impetus and the javelin falls.

Analytic Philosophy in Early Modern India Ganeri, Jonardon 2009

He used the javelin's barbs to jerk the creature sideways like a gigged frog, blocking with its thrashing body the third Archa's attack.

Lord of the Isles 1997

Nonnus was there already, using his grip on the javelin's butt to jerk the Archa away from the procurator.

Lord of the Isles 1997

Sandy and his bloody gang may be at a javelin's throw from us as we sit here.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

The gilded paddles of the slender rowers were so feeble -- they had but made a half-turn from that great javelin's road when down it came upon them, knocking the first few pretty oarsmen head over heels and crackling through their oars like a bull through dry maize stalks.

Gulliver of Mars 1905

His shield still cumbered with the javelin's weight,

The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902

The gilded paddles of the slender rowers were so feeble -- they had but made a half-turn from that great javelin's road when down it came upon them, knocking the first few pretty oarsmen head over heels and crackling through their oars like a bull through dry maize stalks.

Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Linden Arnold 1896

The humble citizens who produced the head of Flaccus are said to have been defrauded of their reward; but the action of the man who wrested the head of Gracchus from the first possessor of the prize and bore it on a javelin's point to Opimius, long furnished a text to the moralist who discoursed on the madness of greed and the thirst of gold.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

When she was a javelin's flight from them the Arabs shouted and paused in terror, for the light of her head was as the sun setting between clouds of thunder; but that Chief dashed forward like a flame beaten level by the wind, crying, 'Bhanavar;

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868