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And Freddie Drummond found that he had divided all the will and force of him with Bill Totts, and between them the entity that constituted the pair of them was being wrenched in twain.
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Bill Totts, and between them the entity that constituted the pair of them was being wrenched in twain.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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Whilst bellowing curses, Conan slashed with the big broadsword and the razor sharp steel severed the thick trunk of the serpent in twain.
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Whilst bellowing curses, Conan slashed with the big broadsword and the razor sharp steel severed the thick trunk of the serpent in twain.
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Again, the size difference between a Na'vi and an acid-bleeding Xenomorph gives the edge to our blue-skinned pals, who would have no trouble ripping the ugly extraterrestrial in twain.
How Would The Na’vi Of ‘Avatar’ Stack Up Against James Cameron’s Other Creatures? » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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“They slew each other on my account;” whereupon Ajib bared his blade and smote her and cut her in twain.
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Whose gullet by the hook of Fate was caught and cut in twain.
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So I rushed after the Ghul, who was weary with running after me and felt for the blind men that he might kill them and, coming up to him smote him with the sword a single stroke across his waist and he fell in twain. then he screamed and cried out to me, ‘O man, an thou desire to slay me, strike me a second stroke.’
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Raphael soon noticed that his favorite pupil was downcast, and he drew a man's heart cleft in twain.
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Twenty-five years ago John Hay pointed out to all Americans that if the emissaries of the Kaiser's Government came across the sea and won the German people of the United States away from their allegiance to their adopted land and bound them back to the Fatherland, our great Republic would be split in twain.
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