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A lone wolf howled miserably, followed closely by a volley of agitated barks.
Matt Oakley's first goal of the season, a thunderbolt 28 th-minute volley, set up Gordon Strachan's men for their first victory in six games.
Brewster, addressing the loose ball at an awkward height, cut his low volley into a vacant corner of the net.
The Blue Toons scored their opener in 24 minutes when defender Mark Simpson's miss-hit volley was headed into the net by Iain Stewart.
Saying this, James loosed a volley from all of his guns while performing a slow barrel roll.
Really, this whole to-do might well have been just another volley in the site's regular stream of tattle, only it spun way out of control.
In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.
She sent her opponent running back with a lunging lob and then dived to put in a backhand angled drop volley.
He struck a winning backhand volley to break again for the set, and a break for 4-2 in the second set virtually assured him of victory.
On the second, he charged to the net and put away a backhand volley to keep his hopes alive.
He cut inside and his left-foot volley from just inside the box screamed past Niemi.
He did it first take, hit a volley which flew into the roof of the net, a real stunner, one in a million.
The first was a scorching right-foot volley that Given did well to tip over the bar.
I persuaded the children to join me in a walk threading between heather, sea pinks and campion along a volley of headlands.
She retrieves the break only to go match point down in the tiebreaker when she makes a complete hash of a simple volley.
The volley sailed over the front rank of soldiers and fell among the battle leaders beyond.
Then Connolly connected with Lockwood's well flighted free-kick to send in a volley which Dobson did well to gather.
The 22-year-old finished off a flowing move of one-touch football from City with a stunning volley to give the Minstermen the lead on 25 minutes.
Germany attack down the left, the ball is crossed and Lukas Podolski tries a volley from inside the D of the Italy penalty area.
His volley crashed off the underside of the crossbar and into the goal on 50 minutes to give his side the lead.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There came a fierce volley from a hundred rifles and a white flight of arrows from the concealed Indians.
They replied with a volley of musketry into the caravansary, and another into the pagoda.
The messman's head appeared, and the minute it bobbed up into sight it was greeted with a volley of vegetables.
A cry of surprise was raised, and drowned in a volley of ribald inquiry and chaff.
This report was followed by another, and yet another, and now by one continuous volley.
A deadly volley of grape and canister shot, mingled with yager balls, quickly cleared the intrenchments and redoubt.
A volley of screams and oaths from the plain answered the crackle of the Browning.
The tiny figures seen over the slide of the backsight seemed a little larger, but also fewer at each successive volley.
It is a volley of pebbles that the mistral carries with it as a torrent does.
The volley which pierced his breast was the knell of the Bonaparte dynasty.
He fired his volley of explanation at his employer with the rapidity of a Maxim gun.
The bearcat came back with a volley of short-arm jabs, rocking the Kid's head.
The answer was a round of grape and langrage from three guns, and a volley of musketry.
At the same time, a volley of imprecations came from the thicket on shore, from the angry owners of the oyster bed.
I had no idea of what ump was up to, but I should learn no earlier by a volley of questions.
Suddenly, as they turned an alleyway, a volley from the Mexican garrison was fired.
Often Will Halley would interfere and abuse the two sailors with a volley of oaths.
First, Rooney flipped one up for himself and saw his volley beaten away, then Di Maria had a long-ramge thunderer pushed over.
They were saluted with a volley of musketry, all but inoperative.
There were six troopers and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of their saddles at the first volley.
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