as in to descend (on or upon)
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There was lace everywhere and leather too.
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From Ikebana studios in Kyoto to leather workshops in Florence and tartan looms in Stirling, a growing number of trips now build entire itineraries around a single craft.
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Visuals also showed some people receiving CPR. Uncontrollable crowd Police started caning people at one gate, leading to more chaos, said Mithun Singh, a software engineer among the crowd.
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Both failed to fire, and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, with a hair-trigger temper, began caning the would-be assassin.
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Outside Delhi, a 32-year-old garment maker identified as Lalita says her factory now requires everyone to strap a GoPro camera to their heads at the start of each shift.
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Invisible hands strap her legs onto the stirrups, an iron fist plunging her through a tunneling, gravity‑bending, black underground.
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An expensive dollar also scourges industries that compete with imports.
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Sylvia scourges herself with an intensity that would make hairshirted flagellants seem soft.
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Instead of scoring points, Richard was more focused on making the right defensive rotation, making passes and boxing out.
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On Tuesday morning, a dozen volunteers joined Montano on the street outside of her restaurant, packing and boxing an influx of supplies — from sanitary supplies to nonperishable foods — dropped off by passing vehicles.
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Pop, a Romanian, was rolling through another service game when Bobker whacked an easy backhand beyond the baseline.
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The experience was not entirely dissimilar to getting whacked in the skull.
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Moniak smacked a 424-foot homer to right-center with one down in the bottom of the inning to tie the game.
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Kara and Ruthye figure out the Brigands are trafficking young women for dastardly purposes, giving them yet another reason to smack some dudes around.
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Some go further, flagellating themselves or using a sword to strike their forehead to draw blood.
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In the mid-eighties, Habermas went after conservative historians who felt that Germans should no longer flagellate themselves over the Nazi past.
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