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  • verb Present participle of hale.

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Examples

  • The army has historically been the seat of power in Egypt, with all Egyptian leaders for the past 60 years haling from its ranks.

    Egypt's Regime on the Brink Charles Levinson 2011

  • Strange it may be, but for Jordi Savall the haling comes quite naturally.

    In praise of … Jordi Savall | Editorial 2011

  • Dave Harney proposed whiskey, and was for haling them away at once; but one delayed long enough to shake stiff hands with Jacob Welse.

    CHAPTER 6 2010

  • Carquinez was ever a demon for haling one's soul out and making rags and tatters of it.

    WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010

  • Though she claims language itself calls things into being: “all these burn/ in language so directly,” she shuts the sophist up that rhyming boy so we hear the reddened earth speak... by “ex/ haling so beautifully mimesis.”

    Erin Moure reads Lisa Robertson Lemon Hound 2009

  • For this thy mockery be sure Dionysus will exact a recompense of thee-even the god whose existence thou deniest; for thou art injuring him by haling me to prison.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • Thou, Menelaus! what quarrel hast thou with this man, why art thou haling him hence?

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • He came up to them and, haling away the merchant from among them, cried to him, “Arise that I may slay thee, as thou slewest my son, the life stuff of my liver.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Thou, Menelaus! what quarrel hast thou with this man, why art thou haling him hence?

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • For this thy mockery be sure Dionysus will exact a recompense of thee-even the god whose existence thou deniest; for thou art injuring him by haling me to prison.

    The Bacchantes 2008

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