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  • That's because the U.S. took down their deadliest enemy,

    Hypocrites on the Hill 2009

  • The Athenians, when they captured the correspondence of their enemy,

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • The Athenians, when they captured the correspondence of their enemy,

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • Georgy, on his side, was in the constant habit of hearing coarse abuse and vulgar satire levelled at John Sedley by his pitiless old enemy,

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Secondly, it was read in this London paper by my mortal enemy,

    The Fatal Boots 2006

  • Thy friend, as thou usest him, and thy sworn enemy,

    Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 2004

  • Whatever a hater may do to a hater, or an enemy to an enemy,

    The Dhammapada 2003

  • Again, in Britain, when some of the foremost officers had accidentally got into a morass full of water, and there were assaulted by the enemy,

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • The gun rang out with a deafening metallic roar, and a whistling grenade flew above the heads of our troops below the hill and fell far short of the enemy,

    War and Peace 2003

  • As soon as Dotterine and her godmother were clear of the enemy,

    The Violet Fairy Book 2003

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