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  • Apple Beijing Store Pelted With Eggs Associated Press People looked at egg stains on the Beijing Apple store's glass wall as they waited for the store to open to sell the iPhone 4S model Friday.

    Fracas Curtails China iPhone Sales Owen Fletcher 2012

  • Also, the infamous "Santa Pelted with Snowballs" incident occurred during a game with ... you guessed it...

    Mummers Continue a Grand Pagan Tradition! Anne Johnson 2008

  • Pelted and pounded by hail, some areas of Minnesota got hit with hail the size of tennis balls.

    CNN Transcript May 26, 2007 2007

  • Pelted by a perpetual hail of electrons fired through a cathode ray tube, the pixels on my PC monitor feed me a generous intellectual bounty of words and images emanating from virtually infinite points dotting the globe.

    Bread, Bread, Everywhere, Yet not a Morsel to Eat 2006

  • Pelted and marginalized, they blended into the background like random noise.

    The Spy Is Out, the Fools Rush In 2005

  • Pelted by sheets of water, the wagons creaked and swayed under the force of the turbulent wind that threatened to overturn them.

    The Frasers Clay Ana Leigh 2004

  • Pelted by increasingly large hailstones, the three scurried in the direction Crombie's magic pointed: the route to safe shelter.

    A Spell For Chameleon Anthony, Piers 1977

  • Pelted by increasingly large hailstones, the three scurried in the direction Crombie's magic pointed: the route to safe shelter.

    A Spell For Chameleon Anthony, Piers 1977

  • Pelted by the warm rain, terror-stricken, he cowered under the rocks through the night, and at daylight peered out on the surf-washed sands, heaving lagoon, and white line of breakers on the barrier reef.

    "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888

  • Pelted, and thrice of lightning scorched and seamed,

    Wyndham Towers Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

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