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Poor Toad sprang to his feet and pelted away again, his heart in his mouth.

He stopped a few feet away from me, and I stared up at him in surprise, leaning my head back though the rain pelted my face.

The audience pelted the speaker with questions until the chairman had to stop them, for there was no more time.

Today, my old neighbor pelted me with apples when I walked out the door.

Residents of Andros Island, one of the least-developed in the Bahamas, hunkered down as Noel's winds howled and rain pelted window panes .

But since then, the United States has been pelted by several major disasters and FEMA is almost out of money.

A few were immediately taken into custody, and the rest after officers were pelted as well.

Witnesses said that there had been clashes between the protesters and opponents who pelted them with rocks, stones and bottles.

The drivers came too close, and passengers sometimes pelted him with bottles (in Nigeria), or with shovelfuls of gravel (in Brazil).

Supporters of Assad pelted Ford with eggs on Thursday as he visited Hassan Abdul-Azim, an opposition figure in Damascus.

The protesters pelted the police and the military with rocks, prompting the troops to fire tear gas and shoot into the air.

The migration of Jupiter and Saturn could have turned asteroids in the early Solar System into missiles that pelted the inner planets.

Heavy rain pelted Beijing from around 10 pm on Tuesday, ending what had earlier been a sunny day.

he pelted her with ink pellets and eventually emptied an entire inkwell over her head (OP18).

The United States accused the Syrian authorities of organising a protest, at which its embassy was pelted with eggs and tomatoes.

As soon as school was over, the children pelted out to play.

Staff arrived on the morning of August 8th to find the shop window had been smashed with a rock and the books on display pelted with eggs.

She put her fanny pack around her waist and snapped the catch as she pelted down the hill.

The LDP should be in the stocks, being pelted with Fukushima's radioactive vegetables, not relishing a return to government.

Later in the day hailstones as big as cricket balls pelted parts of New South Wales.

Shortly before that, protesters outside the luxury hotel he used as his home in Rome had humiliatingly pelted him with coins.

Not long ago, it was Airbus that was strapped to a seat in cattle class and being pelted with airline food.

They tore down part of the fence surrounding the airport, and pelted the soldiers surrounding it with stones.

He was accompanied by a small crowd of supporters that pelted the defendants and their lawyers with eggs and bottles outside the courthouse.

They pelted him with ridicule and vilification.

The victims' outraged family members gathered outside the courthouse and pelted police vehicles with rocks as they drove away.

On Saturday, his motorcade was pelted with eggs by protesters accusing him of waging an illegal war in Iraq in the Irish capital, Dublin.

In this case, the frightened divers pelted the animal with sticks and rocks until it slithered away into the island.

Even before April's violent spasms, Mr Abhisit was pelted by red-shirted opponents during his forays into rural areas.

Demonstrators erected barricades in the street and pelted troops with stones and bottles. Two police stations were set on fire.

When the Italian team returned home after losing a game to North Korea in 1966, they were pelted with tomatoes by disappointed fans.

One police officer was shot, stores were looted and firefighters were pelted with beer bottles.

At once, the black ball rose high in the air and then pelted straight at Harry's face.

'It is utter chaos, ' City Councilwoman and Vice Mayor Melodee Colbert-Kean said Monday as thunderstorms pelted the city with rain and hail.

Huge hail stones the size of golf balls pelted her car leaving it full of dents.

He urged the protesters to do the same as they pelted soldiers with petrol bombs and grenades.

Earth has long been pelted by countless objects from space -- most of them burning up harmlessly in our atmosphere as fiery meteors.

FAMOUS politicians are occasionally pelted with eggs or shoes.

Southern China meanwhile, is being pelted with heavy rains.

The youths pelted police with projectiles and set garbage bins on fire.

The rain pelted against the windows of my car.

It is the second time a boss has been held hostage in France recently over lay-offs. Others have merely been pelted with eggs.

The car pelted along, with two motorcycles running after.

We pelted our friends with snowballs.

The crowds pelted bad eggs at the speaker.

As soon as school was over, the pupils pelted out to play.

They fired tear gas at protestors who pelted them with stones.

They pelted each other with snowballs.

Rainstorms have pelted Jilin since late July and the rain-triggered floods have left 74 people dead and 71 others missing.

The rain pelted down for nearly four hours.

The rain pelted against the window.

They pelted down the hill because it began blowing hard.