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- flings, projects, drives, stimulates, shoves, forces, strikes, bunts, motivates, jerks, inspires, pushes, entices, hurls, fires, jolts, bumps, casts, thrusts, prods, propels, throws, ferments, magnetizes, flicks, encourages, hurtles, pokes, induces, bowls, butts, jostles, moves, jogs, shunts, impels, chucks, compels, slings, lobs, knocks, precipitates, cants, shoots, prompts, nudges, hastens, rams, pitches, instigates, heaves, tosses, punches, triggers, foments, energizes, goads, pelts, provokes, launches, urges
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- - Their catapults were also not without effect. - "A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3)", Felix Dahn
- - But Archimedes had constructed catapults to suit every range; and as the ships sailing up were still at a considerable distance, he so wounded the enemy with stones and darts, from the tighter wound and longer engines as to harass and perplex them to the last degree; and when these began to carry over their heads, he used smaller engines graduated according to the range required from time to time, and by this means caused so much confusion among them as to altogether check their advance and attack; and finally Marcellus was reduced in despair to bringing up his ships under cover of night. - "The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece", Various
- - The camp having been plundered, the Apollonians removed into their city the catapults, ballistas, and other engines which had been got together for the purpose of assaulting their city, for the protection of their walls, in case at any time a similar conjuncture should arise; all the rest of the plunder which the camp afforded was given up to the Romans. - "The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six", Titus Livius
