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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Blinded by the bomb-flash and numbed by the narcotic injection, he could not estimate the extent of his injuries, but he knew that he was dying. ("Time and Time Again")
Duncan MacLeod hung up the suit he had taken off, and sealed his shirt, socks and underwear in a laundry envelope bearing his name and identity-number, tossing this into one of the wire baskets provided for this purpose. ("The Mercenaries")
Colonel Ashley Hampton chewed his cigar and forced himself to relax, his glance slowly traveling the room, lingering on the mosaic of book-spines in the tall cases, the sunlight splashed on the faded pastel colors of the carpet, the soft-tinted autumn landscape outside the French windows, the trophies of Indian and Filipino and German weapons on the walls. ("Dearest")
At the crest of the ridge, Benson stopped for an instant, glancing first at his wristwatch and then back over his shoulder. ("Hunter Patrol")
But yesterday, a whole planet had shouted: Hail Hradzka! Hail the Leader! ("Flight from Tomorrow")
Vladmir N. Dzhoubinsky, Foreign Minister, Union of East European Soviet Republics, to Wu Fung Tung, Foreign Minister, United People's Republics of East Asia: 15 Jan., 1984
Honored Sir: Pursuant to our well-known policy of exchanging military and scientific information with the Governments of friendly Powers, my Government takes great pleasure in announcing the completely successful final tests of our new nuclear-rocket guided missile Marxist Victory. ("Operation R.S.V.P.")
Aboard the ship, there was neither day nor night; the hours slipped gently by, as vistas of star-gemmed blackness slid across the visiscreens. ("Genesis")
For a moment, after the screen door snapped and awakened him, Lee Richardson sat breathless and motionless, his eyes still closed, trying desperately to cling to the dream and print it upon his conscious memory before it faded. ("The Answer")
I still have the dollar bill. ("Crossroads of Destiny")
There were still, in 1968, a few people who were afraid of the nuclear power plant. ("Day of the Moron")
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
"All right, son; I'll do just what you tell me, and when you grow up, I'll be president...Let's go get supper, now." ("Time and Time again")
"In other words, it will be understood, from this time on, that the MacLeod Team is worthy of the status it enjoys and the responsibilities concomitant with it." ("The Mercenaries")
I folded the bill and put it away carefully among my identification cards, where it wouldn't a second time get mixed with the money I spent, and as I did, I wondered what sort of a President George Washington had made, and what part, in the history of that other United States, had been played by the man whose picture appears on our dollar bills - General and President Benedict Arnold. ("Crossroads of Destiny")