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  • Each time it merely turned an engine around or coaled and watered it, such as when a yard engine came in for a crew change, the roundhouse was credited with a half-dispatch.
  • Both are limited to essentially one fighting move, a roundhouse punch, which makes for very repetitive and dull action sequences.
  • Chavasse turned sideways, riding most of the force, and at the same moment fell to one side and delivered a roundhouse kick to the groin. THE KEYS OF HELL
  • Discovering the Doors long after Jim Morrison's death and long before the internet, there was a deep mystery about them – you would find shards of information in music encyclopedias, come across the odd newspaper or magazine article, and once, amazingly, ITV reshowed a documentary from 1968 of the Doors live at London's Roundhouse, juxtaposed with scenes of student revolution. Pure poetry: why Jim Morrison's way with words still lights my fire
  • Then he throws a heavy, slow roundhouse punch at my face.
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  • All three died soon after of mysterious roundhouse-kick related injuries.
  • The weatherboarded top was originally supported by the timber trestle, which has since been enclosed within a brick roundhouse.
  • I was blocking high, to stop the roundhouse, and the sweep caught me totally off guard.
  • She was rough-handled by an arresting officer, held in two different jails for a total of 14 hours, being released onto the mean streets of Philly, locked out of the "roundhouse" police station, in the dark, at 5 AM without even the opportunity to first turn on her cell phone to call for a ride home. OpEdNews Reporter Arrested While Photographing Protest
  • A combination consisting of a king and a queen of each suit is sometimes known as a roundhouse.
  • Maps such as roundhouse offer plenty of routes and places to hide out, while smaller maps such as Dome I found even more fun, as compared to COD4's showdown map. PR News:
  • This is the cue for a front kick, not a roundhouse kick.
  • The other man took a roundhouse swing at Adam's head but Adam was able to block.
  • We walked outside near Walter Payton's Roundhouse and through the parking lot, but soon it was time for the seven of us to return to trackside to catch our inbound train to Chicago.
  • The combat itself flows extremely well - the characters often look like they're dancing as they weave in and out of one another's grapples, roundhouse kicks and uppercuts.
  • God, he's fast for an old guy, she mused, dodging a roundhouse kick from her sensei.
  • Or maybe its a little pugilistic prestidigitation to avoid showing an aging action queen huffing and puffing in between roundhouses.
  • The first, vastly enjoyable sign that Alicia is something other than mindlessly supportive comes after the requisite press conference, when she gives him the kind of roundhouse slap such husbands so richly deserve. Julianna Margulies marries strength, smarts in 'Good Wife'
  • The roundhouse was red sandstone brick with graceful arches over most of the ten stalls and a corrugated metal roof adorned with a ventilated clerestory.
  • Agriculture by this time was spreading from the drier uplands into the lower vales of York and Pickering, with settlements widespread - mainly ditched enclosures containing one or more roundhouses.
  • West Toronto roundhouse continued in use for yard steam engines and later diesel yard switchers.
  • Malcolm shook off his captors and landed a roundhouse on the King's mouth, knocking him flat on his back.
  • Across from the diesel shop, the Roundhouse Deli serves rail workers, taking the place of the old railroad beanery.
  • The weatherboarded top was originally supported by the timber trestle, which has since been enclosed within a brick roundhouse.
  • The fight began with a single word from Harcouth and her opponent opened with a roundhouse that would have broken her jaw had it connected.
  • Dean is a fighter, albeit one who needs to learn that in an ideological spat, a well-placed jab often can do more damage than a barrage of roundhouse punches.
  • Opened in 1925, the old Stateville is famous for having a Panopticon, a type of "roundhouse" prison designed by British philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Charles Shaw: Inside the Illinois Prison Known as "Hotel Hell"
  • 'farmstead', with a large roundhouse S9 set in an enclosure of about third of a hectare with several other buildings. British Blogs
  • His account still left the majority of the features unexplained, and besides, giving a group of them a label, such as 'roundhouse', is a long way short of understanding them. British Blogs
  • Captain Sinclair actually waddled out of his roundhouse to converse politely with the Governor while the convicts were lined up on deck under the eyes of the marines on duty, eyes bloodshot and breath reeking, but leather stocks and spatterdashes perfect. Morgan’s Run
  • He flipped backwards between the two men supposed to be holding him with lightening speed, and delivered a roundhouse kick to one and a scissor kick to the other before they had even realised what had happened.
  • Drawing back to strike him with a kind of roundhouse wallop, the old woman's body went akimbo in a manner that mimicked the way Matisse had liked to paint her. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
  • The new enginehouse sits beside the old V & T turntable pit and does not cover the footprint of the former wooden roundhouse, which varied between four and six stalls.
  • When Angel was finished his swing, Andrea rushed in and threw a roundhouse at his head as quickly as she could.
  • Outside in the wet grass, Max managed to get back to his feet before the jaguar could jump him and he took a roundhouse swipe at the cat.
  • For six years Mr Halkon and members of the East Riding Archeological Society have been excavating a site about a mile away, where they have uncovered the remains of Iron Age roundhouses and a Roman bathhouse.
  • Before he got a chance to counter, she launched a sharp roundhouse to his stomach, doubling him over.
  • His cheek was already swelling from the roundhouse and he had a rather nice black eye.
  • Each time it merely turned an engine around or coaled and watered it, such as when a yard engine came in for a crew change, the roundhouse was credited with a half-dispatch.
  • I think this happened because I overtrained one particular technique at home - the high roundhouse kick.
  • Chuck Norris doesn ' t churn butter. He roundhouse kicks the cows and the butter comes straight out.
  • The roundhouse at San Lázaro was vacated, and afterwards used for bulk grain storage.
  • Nonetheless, it seems that the millennia-old roundhouse, within the course of a single century, came to be seen as socially unfitting, and that everyone who could, rebuilt their houses in an altogether new way.
  • Takemoto, in the middle rounds, attacked him with straight rights, while Saohin responded with roundhouse blows.
  • The loch contains a crannog, a man-made island which once held a roundhouse and is believed to date from around the 1st century AD.
  • The first, vastly enjoyable sign that Alicia is something other than mindlessly supportive comes after the requisite press conference, when she gives him the kind of roundhouse slap such husbands so richly deserve. Julianna Margulies marries strength, smarts in 'Good Wife'
  • She nods with a roundhouse of snickers and giggles.
  • Were they in a-- in a kind of roundhouse -- summer-house, you might call it? Fair Harbor
  • I turned and ran straight into a roundhouse right that drove me into the stack of crates, toppling it.
  • Albert steps forward and swings the book in a roundhouse.
  • He pulled him off of her and, dodging a few punches, landed a few jabs and then a roundhouse punch.
  • With that retort, Will shoved Mark into a table, but Mark countered, ducking from a roundhouse swing and taking Will's legs out from underneath him.
  • She switched her stance and lashed out with a double roundhouse, powerful enough to snap bone.
  • These roundhouses were generally fashioned from double-walled, woven wicker or from posts and wattle.
  • He gave David a roundhouse and ducked when David tried the same move.
  • I turned, and saw for the first time that at the end of the quarter-deck stood what is called a roundhouse, a small cabin, from which the sounds in question proceeded. Charles O'Malley — Volume 1
  • He flipped backwards between the two men supposed to be holding him with lightening speed, and delivered a roundhouse kick to one and a scissor kick to the other before they had even realised what had happened.
  • The Island's Norse settlement was predated by the Celts, evidence for which comes in the form of archaeological remains of roundhouses and hill forts.
  • To be sure, I would tell him how kindly I had myself been used upon that dry land he was so much afraid of, and how well fed and carefully taught both by my friends and my parents: and if he had been recently hurt, he would weep bitterly and swear to run away; but if he was in his usual crackbrain humour, or (still more) if he had had a glass of spirits in the roundhouse, he would deride the notion. Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
  • Particularly impressive examples occur in North Wales and Cornwall, while the brochs and duns of Scotland are monumental examples of roundhouses.
  • A weatherboarded flour mill, it was originally supported on open timberwork, but this has been enclosed within a brick roundhouse.
  • He countered with a roundhouse that Ayane caught on her forehead.
  • This is the cue for a front kick, not a roundhouse kick.
  • A weatherboarded flour mill, it was originally supported on open timberwork, but this has been enclosed within a brick roundhouse.
  • Before anyone could move to stop her, she swung back her arm in a roundhouse swing and delivered a Smack that resounded through the room. DEATH IN FASHION
  • He tried a high roundhouse and was met with an inside crescent by Jordan.
  • The younger man spun back, swinging a roundhouse as he did so. AMAGANSETT

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