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But when a pro-Soviet group visited the president in Hradcany Castle, where he was being held under armed Soviet guard, and asked him to sign a document endorsing the Soviet presence, the seventy-two-year-old soldier shouted, "Get out!"
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In chains and under armed guard, the windows of his steamer boarded shut, Sadyk Pasha was taken to the military camp at Dongola in the Sudan.
frindley commented on the word under armed
There is a chorus in Handel's oratorio Samson.
The text is: "With thunder armed, great God, arise."
But since the opening words are repeated a few times, it can come out sounding like:
"With under armed, with under armed…"
April 19, 2008