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Volleys in sentence

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The amygdala, which is central to violence, central to fear, initiates volleys of cascades that produce pulling of a trigger.
I'm talking about volleys and bicycles, how often does that happen in the champions?
(Oh, did I forget to mention that those Mescaleros have a nasty habit of tying their prisoners to ant hills?) "Escape" boasts a very tough-talking script, with glints of humor coming from the bickerings between (those great character actors) Williams Demarest and Campbell, and its final third is remarkably suspenseful, as Roper, Carla and the escaped rebs are laid siege in a ditch, while the Mescaleros pick them off with rifle shot and lob volleys of arrows into their midst.
When India and Pakistan exchanged volleys of nuclear tests in May of 1998, Western observers suggested that nuclear standoff between the two countries would have a sobering influence, as it allegedly did upon the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War.
One evening it had rained so much that they had gone back again without being able to say anything, and the king's soldiers came up and it finished with volleys of musketry.
The jets came out with the violence of volleys; the five boilers were emptied with the sound of a tempest, whistling in such a roar of thunder that one's ears seemed to bleed.
And he went on talking, playing to the gallery with volleys of abuse, which served to excite him.
Then the others joined her, and there were volleys of insults.
They had left their dead and their money on the field; but Paris would not forget the volleys fired at the Voreux, and the blood of the empire, too, would flow from that incurable wound.
There were a Te Deum, clouds of incense, endless volleys of musketry and artillery; the peasants were frantic with joy and piety.
At first a few scattering shots were fired, which were succeeded by a long and animated roll of musketry, and then quick and heavy volleys followed each other.
The volleys are the rig'lars, who, you know, fire by word - as long as they can."
But the volleys have ceased!"
Both now listened intently for a little while, during which the irregular reports became less brisk, and suddenly heavy and repeated volleys followed.
The firing now became desultory, occasionally intermingled with heavy volleys.
The reply of the stranger was interrupted by sudden and heavy explosions of artillery, which were immediately followed by continued volleys of small arms, and in a few minutes the air was filled with the tumult of a warm and well-contested battle.
Indeed, on the 2nd, peals of thunder were heard, the wind blew from the east, and hail rattled against the facade of Granite House like volleys of grape-shot.
I scarce knew in what manner to receive them, but found to draw ourselves in a close line was the only way; so we formed in a moment; but that we might not have too much interval, I ordered that only every other man should fire, and that the others, who had not fired, should stand ready to give them a second volley immediately, if they continued to advance upon us; and then that those that had fired at first should not pretend to load their fusees again, but stand ready, every one with a pistol, for we were all armed with a fusee and a pair of pistols each man; so we were, by this method, able to fire six volleys, half of us at a time; however, at present we had no necessity; for upon firing the first volley, the enemy made a full stop, being terrified as well with the noise as with the fire.
When we had fired a second volley of our fusees, we thought they stopped a little, and I hoped they would have gone off, but it was but a moment, for others came forward again; so we fired two volleys of our pistols; and I believe in these four firings we had killed seventeen or eighteen of them, and lamed twice as many, yet they came on again.