Word: volleyers
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...completely out of touch with Madrid. A noisy, long-drawn battle was waged between police and Syndicalists in front of the latter's headquarters. They gave up when mountain guns were unlimbered across the street. Sailors rushed a hundred of them on board warships in the harbor. A volley of shots rang out from doorways facing the tree-lined Rambla Flores, sloping down to the harbor. A Civil Guard whirled on his heel and fell, seriously wounded, among the flower pots and twittering bird cages of the market...
...church to disperse the assembly as a menace to the white man's peace. Words passed between the sheriff and Picket Gray. A round of shots was fired in the dark. Sheriff Young and a deputy fell wounded. So did Picket Gray. From the church came a volley of fire. Deputies on the outside volleyed back. The Negroes inside the church went scampering away to cover through the night. Four of them were left behind wounded. The deputies burned the church to the ground. Later a posse sought Gray in his cabin. When they were met with a fusillade...
...expected, when the semi-finals were reached, Shields and Wood were the only Americans left in the tournament. Their opponents, respectively, were Jean Borotra, who had made Queen Mary laugh by returning a volley while sitting on his haunches, and England's Frederick J. Perry, who, playing an erratic but brilliant game, had eliminated John Van Ryn in the fifth round...
...paid $40,000 to be in Madison Square Garden Tilden put the first ball of the first match in play and Richards returned it. Much fatter than he was in the old days, but still fast, a strong server, and with the possible exception of Borotra the best volleyer in the world, Richards had warmed up for the match by beating John Doeg, national amateur champion, four straight sets on an indoor court. Now, against Tilden, he started coming up to the net, ran out the first set 7-5. This first set seemed at terrific speed...
...Arosemena's famed Moorish patio, disturbing the tortoise in his fountain pool, causing the tame white cranes and the egrets to wake up and squawk. Warned by these fowl, the guards of the Presidential Pal ace were alert. They raked the first group of advancing revolutionists with a volley, scattered them in headlong flight...