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  • And when I say everybody, I mean everybody: one of my major memories is of the entire fourth grade it was a small school shooting down the third grade stormtroopers with loud battlecries.

    Oh, furr crying out loud: mariness 2003

  • Above us the storm yelled, shaking the trees; yet louder still as they rode it were the taut battlecries of the garuda, the warbirds of the gods, their black feathers iridescent in the hellish light as they circled lower and lower above die fray.

    The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

  • Then in that towering, thick-walled fortress, which had suddenly become a trap, sounded the screaming of women, the boom of yielding doors, the clang of steel on black staircases, the battlecries, wild songs, and laughter of Lapo Cercamorte's soldiers.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

  • Lightning scatters through the thick, dark clouds, just barely silencing the loud gunfire and battlecries of blood thirsty soldiers, all aiming towards you.

    Latest from PALGN 2009

  • Lightning scatters through the thick, dark clouds, just barely silencing the loud gunfire and battlecries of blood thirsty soldiers, all aiming towards you.

    Latest from PALGN 2009

  • Lightning scatters through the thick, dark clouds, just barely silencing the loud gunfire and battlecries of blood thirsty soldiers, all aiming towards you.

    Latest from PALGN 2009

  • Lightning scatters through the thick, dark clouds, just barely silencing the loud gunfire and battlecries of blood thirsty soldiers, all aiming towards you.

    Latest from PALGN 2009

  • Lightning scatters through the thick, dark clouds, just barely silencing the loud gunfire and battlecries of blood thirsty soldiers, all aiming towards you.

    Latest from PALGN 2009

  • Lightning scatters through the thick, dark clouds, just barely silencing the loud gunfire and battlecries of blood thirsty soldiers, all aiming towards you.

    Latest from PALGN 2009

  • Lightning scatters through the thick, dark clouds, just barely silencing the loud gunfire and battlecries of blood thirsty soldiers, all aiming towards you.

    Latest from PALGN 2009

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