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And Barney reared up on his hind legs, as he had long since learned from the many palm - spikings he had received on head and neck.
CHAPTER XXVI 2010
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When the Dodgers persuaded the Giants to follow them to California in 1958, feelings were hardly tempered brushback pitches, beanings, spikings and brawls have all been a part of their frequent meetings.
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And Barney reared up on his hind legs, as he had long since learned from the many palm - spikings he had received on head and neck.
Chapter 26 1917
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The first step towards better things -- the best practicable step for the present -- is to legalize flogging on shipboard; thereby doing away with the miscellaneous assaults and batteries, kickings, fisticuffings, ropes'-endings, marline-spikings, which the inferior officers continually perpetrate, as the only mode of keeping up anything like discipline.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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The first step towards better things -- the best practicable step for the present -- is to legalize flogging on shipboard; thereby doing away with the miscellaneous assaults and batteries, kickings, fisticuffings, ropes'-endings, marline-spikings, which the inferior officers continually perpetrate, as the only mode of keeping up anything like discipline.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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In her plea agreement last year, Mason admitted to 12 other acts of property destruction between 1999 and 2003, from homes under construction in the Detroit area to tree spikings to protest timber sales in Indiana.
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In her plea agreement last year, Mason admitted to 12 other acts of property destruction between 1999 and 2003, from homes under construction in the Detroit area to tree spikings to protest timber sales in Indiana.
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In her plea agreement last year, Mason admitted to 12 other acts of property destruction between 1999 and 2003, from homes under construction in the Detroit area to tree spikings to protest timber sales in Indiana.
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It was the most serious incident in a series of fires and tree spikings committed by Mason and ex-husband Frank Ambrose from 1999 to 2003.
lsj.com - News 2009
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In her plea agreement last year, Mason admitted to 12 other acts of property destruction between 1999 and 2003, from homes under construction in the Detroit area to tree spikings to protest timber sales in Indiana.
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