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• The remaining ladders were instantly overthrown, and a shower of arrows poured upon their assailants Will and Hans knocked down the foremost of their assailants; and the whole body, foiled in their attempted surprise, discomfited at the appearance of the strange white-faced men, and exposed to the arrows of the defenders, at once darted away--several of their number having already fallen, under the shafts from above.
• This Tarpeian Rock was then a savage and solitary thicket; in the time of the poet it was crowned with the golden roofs of a temple; the temple is overthrown, the gold has been pillaged, the wheel of fortune has accomplished her revolution, and the sacred ground is again disfigured with thorns and brambles. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
• [65] Bute had done all that he could do for him as prime minister; he had cleared the ground for the establishment of the king's system of government; the whig oligarchy was disorganised and overthrown, and the war was at an end.
• The horse and the rider are both overthrown, the horse and the rider are both overthrown Rise, Rachel, from thy wilderness, arise, and weep no more. —  Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
• If they should be overthrown, as probably would be their fate, where would be the "security" for which we are to pay so highly in blood and gold? —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860

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