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Examples
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The commission also on Friday heard Harksen's attorney Zirk
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One of the five injured in last week's shooting, Major Zirk
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There was some fire in reply; a Zirk corporal narrowly missed him with a pistol, he saw the captain's head fly apart when an explosive rifle-bullet hit him, and half a dozen Kragans went down.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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Another rioter-a Zirk nomad from the North, he guessed-was aiming one of the long-barreled native air-rifles, holding the ten-inch globe of the air-chamber in both lower hands.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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There had been light ground-action along the southern end of the perimeter-King Firkked's regulars, reen-forced by Zirk tribesmen and levies of townspeople, all of whom seemed to have firearms, were filtering in through the ruins of the labor-camp and the wreckage of the equipment-park-and there was renewed sniping from the mountainside.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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There was some attempt at escape from the ground floor as von Schlichten and his Kragans fought their way down from above, but the Northern Star and her escort of combat-cars and air-jeeps bombed and machine-gunned and rocketed the fugitives from above, and the loyal Zirk cavalry, bursting through the mob, came up shooting and lancing.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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By way of variety, it was the army of King Jonkvank that had mutinied; the Sixth North Uller Native Infantry and the two companies of Zirk cavalry at Krink were still loyal, along with the Kragans.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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Inside the city, he found that the Zirk cavalry from Krink had thrust up one of the broader streets to within a thousand yards of the Palace, and, supported by infantry, contragravity, and a couple of airtanks, were pounding and hacking at a mass of Skilkans whose uniform lack of costume prevented distinguishing between soldiery and townsfolk.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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At that, the Skilkan peasantry who made up the Tenth Infantry and the Zirk cavalrymen tried briefly to fight as individuals, shrieking "Znidd suddabit!" until the Kragans were upon them, stabbing and shooting.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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Von Schlichten shot him, and the Zirk literally blew to pieces.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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