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So saying, he drew his falchion from his side and rushed at once to combat. Achilles, secured behind his shield, waited the approach of Hector. When he came within reach of his spear, Achilles, choosing with his eye a vulnerable part where the armor leaves the neck uncovered, aimed his spear at that part, and Hector fell, death-wounded, and feebly said, "Spare my body!
No Mekinese would have the advantage of watching the tactic practiced on a companion-ship, to guide his own actions. The Horus appeared at that utterly vulnerable and wholly advantageous position. She showed on the Mekinese screens. They launched missiles. The Horus launched missiles. The Horus disappeared. She reappeared, beyond and behind the half-globe formation.
In view of the new conditions it is held that we are more vulnerable through our trade now than formerly, and that, consequently, we must devote relatively more attention and force to its defence.
Every wooden ship was vulnerable to him and impotent against him at the ranges which his rifles permitted him to use.
"Just the same, the time will come," predicted James Stuart. "Some night he'll take his regular place at your fireside, as he does at your table. I know your father's soft heart. Yours may not be quite so vulnerable, but if the boarder should happen to look low in his mind after a telegram from anywhere, or should get his precious feet wet " "Jimps, go home and be sensible.
Long before Enron and World.com, the tech bubble and Wall Street's accounting frauds and pernicious conflicts of interest transition has exposed the raw and vulnerable nerves running through the foundations of Anglo-Saxon capitalism. Eastern Europe is a monument to the folly of unmitigated and unbridled freemarketry.
This was regarded as an impregnable post and vulnerable only through strategy in Indian parlance another name for duplicity. Fort Mackinaw, as Brock well knew, was the most important trading entrepôt west of Montreal. It served a territory extending from the Missouri in the west to the far Kissaskatchewan in the north. On Henry's arrival his friendship was sought by an Indian chief, Wawatam.
"New shoes!" said Curly contemptuously, selecting the first obviously vulnerable point open to a shaft of insult. "New shoes! Spit on 'em!" He suited the action to the word, and immediately word and act alike were imitated by two or three of his more ardent admirers. "Stop!" said Bob. He did not know what it meant. He backed away from his persecutors. "Aw, stop, eh?" mocked Curly. "Who are you?
"He has one weak point, I am sure," and Medenham smiled confidently into her eyes. "I do not know it," she murmured. "But I know it, though I have never seen him. He is vulnerable through his daughter." Her cheeks flamed into scarlet, and her lips trembled, but she strove valiantly to govern her voice.
While drawing it up, he had been debating with himself as to the best means of killing the brute. Remembering that his first shot had done no harm, he sensibly concluded that he had not yet learned the vulnerable part of the monster. His gun was loaded very carefully, and when everything was ready he made a noise, to attract the attention of the brute.
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