How To Use Barbed In A Sentence

A tall, impenetrable wall with barbed wire and sharp metal spikes on top surrounded the entire complex.
Presently I saw a man leaning on a two-strand barbed-wire fence, the wires fixed not to posts but to crooked tree limbs stuck in the ground.
Here and there a soldado pulled up, screaming, as a barbed shaft found a crack or pierced a foot or leg. Fire The Sky
He fondled the impression of her as of silverspun wire, of fine leather, of twisted hair-sennit from the heads of maidens such as the Marquesans make, of carven pearl-shell for the lure of the bonita, and of barbed ivory at the heads of sea-spears such as the Eskimos throw. CHAPTER X
Looking out of the bus window, I saw tank traps, sandbagged trenches, tank emplacements, barbed wire, low flying copters.

Now, in this land the path of the transgressor is strewn with barbed wire, and so my mistress got entangled in some loose strands that had uncoiled from the fence. Janey Canuck in the West
And, given the club's pressing financial problems, barbed comments continue to be fired in the Trust's direction from some fans who believe the money could have been better spent.
Tremolite's long fibers are barbed like fishhooks.
The arch tastemaker meant it as a compliment, but barbed remarks and outright insults have dogged her throughout her career.
I followed him inside the rambling barbed wire, shaking my head and muttering “Cayuse?” Silver Zombie
The balls would soar out over the sand bags and barbed wire protecting our position, and into the perimeter, which happened to be mined heavily.
With the brightly coloured banderillas (barbed darts) he approaches the bull excellently and positions them carefully on the neck, bringing the crowd to its feet with applause.
There were also artillery batteries and thousands of yards of interlocking systems of barbed wire defences.
Barbed and Unbarbed, and feet into Manycleft, and Twocleft, like those of animals with bifid hoofs, and Uncleft or Undivided, like those of animals with solid hoofs. On the Parts of Animals
You may not, however, top your wall with broken glass or barbed wire without the consent of your local authority.
Also watch for cuts and abrasions from things like barbed wire fence, old machinery left hidden under tall grass, stickweeds and burrs.
I once witnessed a 7 pt being sawed from a barbed wire fence when I was about 8. Video Report: Montana Ranchers Untangle Locked Bucks
Patients wander naked behind barbed-wire fences.
Be careful not to snag your coat on the barbed wire.
The task was difficult, as the sprigs were barbed with large thorns, and the fragrant resin stuck to their fingers as they broke the sprigs from the angular branch.
They jumped over countless hedges and a myriad of small streams and barbed wire, all set up to prevent what was happening now.
His property is fenced with barbed wire.
Cold and nondescript from the street, it sits about 2 miles from campus, adjacent to a Bed Bath & Beyond and engulfed on three sides by the tall, barbed-wire fence of a local auto body shop. Catlin has made a career out of busting juicers
I closed my mouth and felt as though I had gargled with barbed wire.
My parents put braces on me to straighten my teeth, and in those days that was like wearing barbed wire in your mouth.
Major Bethell, OC of the guard, ordered his men to clear away the barbed wire in front of the lifeboats. THE LONELY SEA
The jacket was torn to shreds by the barbed wire.
A convex polygon with a triangle attached to one of its edges in this way is called a barbed polygon.
Nobody knows worst-dressed lists better than the famed Mr Blackwell, who since 1960 has issued barbed critiques of stars' outfits at the start of each new year.
Danny had just caught his shirt and a bit of the skin underneath on some barbed wire.
a barbed compliment
Her hair got all tangled up in the barbed wire fence.
US soldiers guarding the gate usually stand about 20 yards from the road behind coils of barbed wire and concrete barriers.
Long-hafted, slender, bone-barbed throwing-spears lay along the gunwale of the canoe, while a quiverful of arrows hung on each man's back. Chapter 22
How often is this the prelude to a review of barbed gentility? Times, Sunday Times
The New Forest had become virtually a fortress of barbed wire and road blocks.
Forget the friendly bear-hugs and the shaking of hands on the podiums, forget the barbed criticisms mollified by kind words.
In modern French, the term has come to be used for portable barbed wire entanglements.
He had seen the end of gold and the end of the buffalo, the beginning of cattle, the beginning of wheat, and the spreading of the barbed-wire fence, that, in the end, will take from him his occupation and his revolver, his chaparejos and his usefulness, his lariat and his reason for being. The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock
Casually touching many cnidarians will make it clear how they got their name when their nematocysts eject barbed threads tipped with poison.
Instead of barbed wire and endless gray mud, it was surrounded by apple orchards, gardens, rivers and lakes.
I walked over a barbed-wire covered hill, through a deserted trench, and saw the hellish landscape.
He used barbed wire to attach crossbeams to posts and bailing wire to lash ocotillo canes to the crossbeams.
Some of Payne's photos have shades of creepiness: the barbed wire surrounding a turreted building or the cold grandeur of a crumbling marble staircase. Where Patients Once Sought Asylum - Culture - The Atlantic
In addition, parching scorches off the long barbed ends of the chaff and destroys any detritus left after cleaning.
She hid her face for a second with the fan, licking the barbed edges of the pins that gave it its shape then bent down close to his face, giving him full leeway to her mouth.
Below the trench is a lace negligee of barbed wire, all the barbed wire the kibbutz had in 1948, and beyond that are Egyptian tanks, just where they stopped when they could go no farther. Zion's Vital Signs
A dress is like a barbed fence. It protects the premises without restricting the view.
rows of barbed wire protected the trenches
You dance with the devil, he’s going to slip you a roofy, take you home and date-rape you with his barbed boner. soullite says: Matthew Yglesias » Is The Left in Crisis?
Because their feet are not large or strong enough to hold prey, shrikes find a crotch in a tree, a thorn, or barbed wire to hang their prey on while they eat.
Sometimes they'll throw barbed wire and any other refuse into these ponds, and the diver can be entrapped in that substance.
With the new barbed sutures, surgeons say, they can make a small incision, then use a long needle to thread the suture under the skin to the place where it needs to be anchored and tie it at the top.
Lancashire County Council has moved to ease concerns over a barbed wire fence adjoining a public footway in Mount Lane.
Patrick flinches in the dock, waiting for the next barbed question, the next prosecutorial thrust. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
He had first caught sight of her riding in a ploughed field beyond the barbed wire perimeter of the air base.
The factory was surrounded by barbed wire.
His coat was torn to ribbons by the barbed wire fence.
The barbed wire encirclement of about 40 metres by 10 metres encloses a hutment of the usual type, a large shed, a small building which is the guard room, and a small place which serves as a laundry and has a bathroom and the latrines. Work Camp 11017 GW
In addition to twigs, the crows manufacture tools from long and barbed leaves of the pandanus tree.
They advanced yard by yard, imposing a strict blockade with barbed wire and blockhouses.
I can just envision the future debate when that ineffectuality becomes more glaringly apparent: "We'll have to authorize an additional $23 Billion to add barbed wire to the top of the fence [or any other favorite fence enhancement], because folks are climbing over [or tunneling under, or going around, da, da, da] it! See One-Man, One-Vote Questioned on National TV, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
After passing through a series of lines, we were gathered into a chain-link holding pen, crowned with barbed wire, adjacent to the men.
When he reached the wire, however, he saw at once that its strength was an illusion, for the whole concertina was held in place by an unbarbed loop hung loosely over the twisted end of a broken railing: surmounting the cunning defences of Standingham Castle wasn't going to be such a problem after all, thank heavens! War Game
She had driven slowly forward to the yellow demarcation line and the frightening folds of barbed wire.
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In this instance, the next best thing to saying ‘Mind your own business’ would be to say something light - with just the tiniest barbed edge.
The Duke provided himself with bows from Prussia and from Caffa in Georgia, [1981] and with arrows barbed and unbarbed. The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
In an attempt to rescue the truck's occupants, several people waded out to a high point of land and improvised a lifeline from barbed wire cut from a nearby fence and a spare tire as a buoy.
The familiar sadness of the ceremony was multiplied by its setting: a tawdry tar-paper barrack surrounded by strips of barbed wire which denied the parents of the honored soldiers the very freedom for which their sons had died.
She walked down a gravel drive towards a gate in the chain-link and barbed wire fence.
This is, stripped bare, a classic romantic comedy, given a barbed edge by the precociously talented Anderson, whose presence lends the film its refreshingly unique style.
These weird tools include funnel glasses designed to guide eyedrops into the eye (see photo), a toilet tissue holder hat, and a barbed alarm clock intended to wake up its user quickly.
The place was littered with barbed wire and rotting lumber and a dozen old boats in various stages of decay.
Because their feet are not large or strong enough to hold prey, shrikes find a crotch in a tree, a thorn, or barbed wire to hang their prey on while they eat.
A troika of small boys, cocky and nervous proto-new Russians, lean over the rusting barbed wire and drool gobbets of spit onto his head.
Approaches were obstructed by anti-tank and anti-personnel mines and barbed wire, and covered by anti-tank guns and machine-guns.
The spines grow from an areole covered with glochids, which are tiny, barbed spines characteristic of all Opuntia.
The kind of barbed comment delivered with a smile to take the sting out of it.
The side was covered with a wooden palisade fence, with barbed wire on the top.
Arrows and barbed harpoons were placed near the right leg; milling stones, awls, chisels, knives, and other offerings were set to the left of the body.
As someone who spent jail time, 20 lashes is worth about one week of time, if the lashes are non-barbed leather, and the strokes are limited to a force of 20 pounds. Overcoming Squemishness, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
I am a sucker for rusty stuff - ramshackle windmills, a rotting singletree hanging on that hook where grandpa put it the last time he unhitched the team, plows, skillets, barbed wire.
The winds were favorable, and the only obstacle on approach or departure was a 10-foot-high barbed-wire fence surrounding the site.
Youths were clambering over barbed wire fences, climbing through skylight windows and running amok in the dark.
Arrows and barbed harpoons were placed near the right leg; milling stones, awls, chisels, knives, and other offerings were set to the left of the body.
Weeds can be dangerous, especially foxtail grasses with barbed seed heads, which dogs can accidentally inhale with serious consequences.
His jacket had been torn to shreds by the barbed wire.
Branches, taken off nearby trees, were interwoven into the barbed wire to screen it off from the camp's other section.
Probably no historical image would be harder to dislodge from the collective memory than that of the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached general, his tactics derived from long-ago cavalry maneuvers, sitting in a château headquarters well behind the lines as he orders waves of infantry across minefields and through barbed wire, forcing them like the Light Brigade itself “into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell,” and into the waiting German machine guns. The Pity of War
There were whispered rumors that went even farther than these -- rumors which I dare not even set down here, for the busy tongues that dealt so mercilessly with the name and fame of Eliza Floyd were not unbarbed by malice. Aurora Floyd. A Novel
Champlain's journal as the place where the friendly Indians showed him their fish-hooks made of barbed bone lashed to wood, but which has become better known as Plymouth Bay where the Pilgrims landed fifteen years later -- there instead of Port Royal, where even Lescarbot's "Ordre de Bon - The French in the Heart of America
They knew this as well, so they taunted me with their sharp swords and barbed words.
They were not kept behind barbed or electric wire fences.
Instead, the birds strike with their beaks and hook their fresh meat on thorns or barbed wire.
And in the next second, or fraction of second, as Jerry lifted and soared through the air, over the barbed wire of the rail and overboard, while Sniders were being passed up overside from the canoes, Tambi fired his next hasty shot. CHAPTER XI
It is tempting to think kindly of him and to believe that underneath the sarcasm, the dry wit, the barbed comment, there's a rather nice man struggling to get out.
God of Carnage," now with the barbed assault of Ayckbourn's triptych, the director pretty much shreds the notion of connubial bliss. Variety.com
One time my son came back from a playdate at a fancy lady's house, a woman who is really unpleasant to me and takes every opportunity to say slightly barbed things to me.
Barbed wire zigzagged in front of the small houses and large Alsatians snarled at strangers from behind steel fences.
As this is growing wearisome, I would now recommend for a change something else for a pleasure -- namely, the unconscious astuteness with which good, fat, honest mediocrity always behaves towards loftier spirits and the tasks they have to perform, the subtle, barbed, Jesuitical astuteness, which is a thousand times subtler than the taste and understanding of the middle-class in its best moments -- subtler even than the understanding of its victims: -- a repeated proof that "instinct" is the most intelligent of all kinds of intelligence which have hitherto been discovered. Beyond Good and Evil
The latter is different: barbed, energetic, smarmy, loud, dirty, assertive, insinuating.
His Highness hath also sent a couple of horses for his use, — one an ambling jennet for the road, and another a strong barbed horse of Flanders, in case he bath aught to do. Anne of Geierstein
There is also a yard where one could at one time sit and look at the adjacent buildings through the barbed wire.
Others are barbed like the spicula of a bee's sting.
Wrestling legend Paul Heyman has slammed Rihanna for allegedly ripping off his idea of being wrapped up in barbed wire for the single cover for her current comeback single “Russian Roulette.” Rihanna “Rated R” Cover Art Revealed
Given the ferocious imagination of his subconscious, it's hardly surprising that his celluloid output is laced with lethal barbed wire.
The barbed wire had left only the tiniest nick just below my right eye.
The chateau on the northern outskirts is a strongpoint of bunkers connected by tunnels, surrounded by dense minefields and barbed wire.
Because in the free and open parts of the globalised world, the only other option for us all will be to erect our barbed-wire fences and hire our personal security guards, and wait in fear for the bestial truth to come for us, too.
The dangers for Stephen, however, arc the barbed remarks of the scholars, presently engaged in a discussion of Goethe's novel, Wilhelm Meister.
Lee is essentially a satirist who redefines the term barbed wit; more traditional in his approach than say, Chris Morris, but no less appalled and disgusted at what has become of us. The Guardian World News
Usually about six feet wide and seven feet deep, the trenches were guarded by barbed wire and machine-gun posts.
He and his friends are very aware of the barbed fenced border, the border security personnel and the consequences of crossing it.
The roads are rutted, often marked by open sewers, and pass by homes surrounded by walls topped with barbed wire or embedded shards of glass to repel intruders. Richard North Patterson discusses Eclipse
One field skirted the edge of a primary school, which was fenced off with barbed wire and guard posts.
Today, O Krishna, unbarbed arrows, impelled by my arms and sped from the gandiva, mangling Karna, will take him to Yama. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
New pastures full of scarecrows and glistening barbed razor wire and crisscrossing pipelines pumping petrodollars into the pockets of imperium.
The barbed wire had left only the tiniest nick just below my right eye.
She wears three POW/MIA bracelets; sharing her right wrist with the bracelets is a symoblic loop of barbed wire, made from plastic. Bennett, Thomas W. Jr.
Hence the epiblast can only by continual growth accommodate what it must embrace, and the process of tucking-in is accompanied by one of growth of the epiblast, as shown by the unbarbed arrow, over the yolk. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
He also specialised in selling nails, iron, barbed wire, enamelware, Royal Dalton china and silverware from places like New York, Liverpool and London.
Others again DID reach the upper decks, found their way to the nearest fore or aft lifeboat blocked by rolls of athwartships barbed wire, and went below again to find some passage which would bring them up to a lifeboat no further away than twenty yards from where they stood. The Lonely Sea
A high chain-link fence crowned with barbed wire surrounds them.
Drascombe, and in the reign of Edward I, Walter de Bromehall held it 'by the sergeanty of finding our Lord the King, whensoever he should hunt in the forest of Dartmoor, one bow and three barbed arrows. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
Indeed, what makes him such an entertaining lyricist and interviewee is the way he manages to dress witheringly cynical comments and spitefully barbed put-downs in such verbal finery and succinct epigrammatic wit.
Inside, set back from the perimeter wall about fifteen feet, was another fence, a chainlink job with barbed wire on top. BLOOD IS DIRT
Their arms consisted in short barbed swords of iron, heavy black bows, arrows tipped with flint, iron and copper, and stone-headed mallets. People of the Dark
You may not, however, top your wall with broken glass or barbed wire without the consent of your local authority.
Despite the cactus, this is clearly rangeland, and we carefully evade the barbed wire as we cross into the field.
All he knew was that everyone wanted it, wanted it badly, and that he was having a hard time keeping it…The sense of personal safety it gave him, the awareness that here at last was one object which he could actually depend on, the almost positive knowledge that it would one day actually save him, all of these comforted him as he lay rolled up in his two blankets and one shelterhalf with the rocky ground jabbing him in the flanks or as he toiled backbreakingly all day long at the never-ending job of putting up barbed wire. Ecstatic Days » 2009 » June
Several civilian employees at Cu Chi were later found dead in the barbed wire set out around the perimeter.
Sometimes walks over farmland can be bothersome with beasts, barbed wire and all.
Phenotypic traits include barbed lemmas, small sterile lateral spikelets, short glume awns, narrow leaves, semismooth awns, and long rachilla hairs.
On the rim of the roof, there was an iron fence rimmed with barbed wire.
They advanced yard by yard, imposing a strict blockade with barbed wire and blockhouses.
A barbed wire fence marks the boundary between the two communities.
At dawn we broke through the barbed wire entanglements under the city wall.
A huge stockyard for which they have a vested financial interest in corraling with space based barbed wire and harvesting on behalf of their own greedy appetites.
She was angry and spoke to me in barbed wire German which left my ear ragged and bleeding. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
Due to shortages of iron and steel barbed wire entanglements were erected using wood posts hammered into the ground.
Other discoveries include a wooden beaker, barbed arrowheads and armour.
III. iii.276 (443,9) forked plague] In allusion to a _barbed_ or _forked_ arrow, which, once infixed, cannot be extracted. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
They were delivered to tar paper barracks in barbed wire compounds patrolled by soldiers. November 2004
The logic behind this was so that the artillery guns would destroy the German trenches and barbed wire placed in front of the trenches.
They were clad in brilliantly-painted cloths, and the soldiers were armed with the saw-toothed war-club, the bow and arrows barbed and poisoned with the juice of the euphorbium, the cutlass, the “sima,” a long sabre (also with saw-like teeth), and some small battle-axes. Five Weeks in a Balloon
Their half-hearted shower of arrows thickened and turned the air black with sharp, barbed, and vile arrows.
Then electrified hurricane barbed wire was looped across the top of the fence, its barbs laced with deadly blowfish toxin.
The fresh air felt like barbed thread passing through his nostrils.
In what seems to be an effort to prove the "impermanent" nature of our presence at Palmerola, the Pentagon has given the American side of the base an oddly ramshackle appearance — in contrast to the elegance of the Honduran establishment on the other side of the barbed fence. The Country of Nada
In the allotments, paths overgrown with nettles and docks are littered with squashed cans and chocolate wrappers between walls of rusting corrugated iron topped with barbed wire.
When shooting in Taser mode, 2 extra absorbent cotton tampons with barbed probes and 14 ft. of wire are expelled and propelled by compressed nitrogen. The Tampon Taser Gun | Impact Lab
Mr Davis fired a series of barbed missives at what he described as ‘the only real growth sector in the British economy - bureaucracy’, throughout the public sector.
she replied, a barbed question guaranteed to snag my dander. A DARKENING STAIN
Conditions in Farc prison camps were highlighted last year when television showed the captives in barbed-wire compounds in the jungle.
Before we started next morning, a huge herd of blesbok suddenly appeared on the scene, wildly galloping about in every direction, being continually brought up by the barbed wire fences of the farms. The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland
There is also a yard where one could at one time sit and look at the adjacent buildings through the barbed wire.
His land is fenced with barbed wire.
Lorries are scattered around and a barbed wire fence encircles a large area around the building.
Concentration camps and small forts or blockhouses, which were strung together by 3,700 square miles of barbed wire fencing, became the chief means of achieving this end.
It was surrounded by a high chain-link fence topped with barbed wire. FLOATING CITY
One twelve-year-old was buried with a range of grave goods including a stone biface, bone awls, a shark's tooth, and barbed bone points.
This boundary is also marked for much of the way by the ancient equivalent of a barbed wire fence - a ditch and bank thrown up to restrict cattle, with a quickthorn hedge planted on top, which quite rapidly reinforces the barrier.
The barbed compliment, the sarcastic compliment, the compliment that turns on someone else present, the compliment that's supposed to erase months or years of ill-treatment ... and then the complimenter can turn to others and say, "I was just trying to be nice. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
Whether the stick was barbed I don't know, but you can't help but wonder if the beast is responding to the memory of a hooked pole.
She gave him a woodpecker's tongue, arrowheaded and barbed; an ox tongue, muscular, broad, and hung with drool; and, finally, the shy, happy tongue that the porpoise employs to push the waves to shore. Skinny Legs and All
Looking out of the bus window, I saw tank traps, sandbagged trenches, tank emplacements, barbed wire, low flying copters.
Not only did Mann throw down the gauntlet to the fascists, with his sharp insight and his barbed pen, in some of his works he came very close to a socialist perspective.
And going to the facility, he asked all the usual questions: Is the campus fenced in with barbed wire?
His land is fenced with barbed wire.
Whenever Declan woke, his anxiety was worse than the day before, as if acid seethed in his belly and barbed wire cinched around his heart. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Harry could not resist making a barbed remark at that.
Bone was used extensively to make wedges, adzes, hammers, spear heads with link shafts, barbed points and harpoons, eyed needles, and jewellery.
Odds-on the chain would get caught under a shed or in the barbed wire of a fence - and the dog would die of thirst, hunger or strangulation.
On the other side of the double row of barbed wire a guard was standing still holding his rifle at the ready.
Benenson died in 2005 and yesterday his daughter Manya, 35, lit the Amnesty candle, symbolically ringed by barbed wire, in his memory, along with Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, a Burmese refugee whose father is serving a 65-year jail sentence for organising peaceful protests against the military junta in 2007. Amnesty International marks 50 years of fighting for free speech
Barbed wire, a web of railroads throughout the Great Plains, and enforcement of federal land laws all put an end to the open-range cattle industry and the great trails.
Other types of arrow head found include barbed fishing arrows and crescent shaped small game arrows 5.
The medical center was encaged in a barbed-wire fence that I felt sure was also electric.
A tiled bathroom in an old safari lodge contains a frightening arsenal of confiscated weaponry - machetes, knives, bows and arrows tipped with hammered barbed wire; buffalo-size snares; gin traps powered by car springs.
Those hoping to visit it are stopped by a granite wall topped with barbed wire.
The car stopped when it hit a telephone pole - wrapped in barbed wire and chain-link fence.
Groups of protesters tried to storm the embassy by charging the barbed-wire barricade that had been set up outside.
He said he saw a little girl crying outside the barbed wire fence by the front gate of the former palace where he works.
The prisoners cut their way through the barbed wire and escaped.
The clouds were coiled in stars like barbed wire. Times, Sunday Times
This results in a smashing encounter with a stranded SUV, its tires blown out by a barbed wire trap.
Major Bethell, OC of the guard, ordered his men to clear away the barbed wire in front of the lifeboats. THE LONELY SEA
He is, Shorty exclaims, the "hi-yu skookum top chief of the whole caboodle," and the caboodle is 20,000 square miles of wilderness, home to a hundred thousand caribou hunted by a people using bone-barbed arrows and bone knives. “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
He tapped the button on the arrow and the barbed head started spinning.
Negore was armed with a miserable bone-barbed spear, and he kept his rabbit-skin robe wrapped closely about him, and though the day was warm he shivered as with an ague. NEGORE, THE COWARD
At dawn we broke through the barbed wire entanglements under the city wall.
Yes, the bolster is drawn across the bed, with barbed wire entanglements and snipe holes arranged.
At night sentries were doubled, and most men found themselves on carrying parties, going back along communication trenches to bring up barbed wire, sandbags, ammunition, or trench-mortar bombs.
At dawn we broke through the barbed wire entanglements under the city wall.
They vary up the torture tactics via new school hardcore, the furious primal bombast of thrash metal and every barbed edge in-between.
In the allotments, paths overgrown with nettles and docks are littered with squashed cans and chocolate wrappers between walls of rusting corrugated iron topped with barbed wire.
One picked it up at random to chuckle over its wicked insights, its barbed phrases, and its corrosive view of society in which elements of ridiculousness, cruelty, and barbarousness nestled in close juxtaposition with things taken for granted and worn smooth with custom and careless handling. The Worldly Philosophers
British gunfire should have destroyed the barbed wire defences in front of the German trenches, but it had not, as the men found out when they crawled and ran towards the German lines.
Many precautions by the white-gods had Jerry been aware of, and so, sensing it almost in intangible ways, as a matter of course he accepted this barbed-wire fence on the floating world as a mark of the persistence of danger. CHAPTER III

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