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  • They say she even marched over the Alps with Hannibal's army in 218 BC.†   (source)
  • They say Hannibal himself may have led his troops through these parts.†   (source)
  • They thought they were safe, because the elephants were across the sea, but Hannibal was smarter than them.†   (source)
  • He owes a lot to President Lincoln, who first appointed him the military governor of Tennessee and then chose him to run on the vice presidential ticket after Lincoln asked Hannibal Hamlin of Maine to step down.†   (source)
  • Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart; Ta-Kumsaw lived a story like Achilles or Odysseus, Caesar or Hannibal, David or the Maccabees.†   (source)
  • Hannibal is often quoted as having said, "We will either find a way, or make one."
  • "We can place you in Hannibal, where your wife's purse shows up a few days later," Boney said.†   (source)
  • So let me help you: You in Hannibal lately?†   (source)
  • I gotta ask: You haven't been to Hannibal recently, have you?†   (source)
  • They just found Amy's purse in Hannibal.†   (source)
  • Why, exactly, would I go to Hannibal to get rid of my wife's purse?†   (source)
  • It was a blow-dryer-hot day, but even so, Hannibal seemed disturbingly quiet.†   (source)
  • What if Gilpin were still with Nick when he went to Hannibal?†   (source)
  • I mean, seriously: crummy jeans and visor equals Hannibal?†   (source)
  • Hannibal, where I finally understood how much this area means to you.†   (source)
  • "It doesn't say Hannibal anywhere here," she said.†   (source)
  • You say this was written to force you to go to Hannibal?†   (source)
  • Hannibal the elephant plowed down monsters right and left, but the defenders were badly outnumbered.†   (source)
  • Hannibal wrapped the three questers with his trunk.†   (source)
  • Hannibal barreled into the fort, arrows and rocks bouncing harmlessly off his Kevlar armor.†   (source)
  • He wanted so much to believe it he felt like Hannibal the elephant was standing on his chest.†   (source)
  • As he headed back to camp, he saw Mrs. O'Leary playing with Hannibal in the Field of Mars.†   (source)
  • Hannibal nuzzled Gwen's hair with his trunk.†   (source)
  • Even Hannibal the elephant was having a hard time wading through so many monsters.†   (source)
  • Hannibal the elephant trumpeted with happiness, but Frank couldn't afford to watch.†   (source)
  • He jumped over a burning scorpion and ducked as Hannibal threw a Cyclops across his path.†   (source)
  • Hannibal stepped on the table, and game pieces scattered.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Hazel climbed onto Hannibal's back.†   (source)
  • Did Desi plant incriminating items at each of the treasure hunt sites: Nick's office, Hannibal, his dad's house, Go's woodshed?†   (source)
  • It was a fairly awful reminder, the dearth of good memories we had since our move, that my wife was forced to pick Hannibal for her treasure hunt.†   (source)
  • I mean, you want to talk about convenient: We find out you've been to Hannibal, whaddaya know, this clue secretly means go to Hannibal.†   (source)
  • Hannibal was a strange choice for Amy, however, as I don't remember us having a particularly good or bad time there, just a time.†   (source)
  • We drove toward St. Louis, and I remember on the way there he stopped at Hannibal—I heard the steamboat whistle.†   (source)
  • He talks to me in his river-wavy Missouri accent; he was born and raised outside of Hannibal, the boyhood home of Mark Twain, the inspiration for Tom Sawyer.†   (source)
  • She said it with such casual confidence, I had a flash: a police tracker hidden somewhere in the undercarriage of my car, released to me the morning I went to Hannibal.†   (source)
  • Like, that Desi would happen to toss out the purse right at Hannibal, where your clue would make Nick go—and we in turn would believe that Nick tossed the purse there.†   (source)
  • Tanner began: "Amy used her clues to force my client to go to these various venues, where she'd left evidence—Hannibal, his father's house—so he'd incriminate himself.†   (source)
  • It was Hannibal, Missouri, boyhood home of Mark Twain, where I'd worked summers growing up, where I'd wandered the town dressed as Huck Finn, in an old straw hat and faux-ragged pants, smiling scampishly while urging people to visit the Ice Cream Shoppe.†   (source)
  • I reached Hannibal in twenty minutes, drove past the glorious Gilded Age courthouse that now held only a chicken-wing place in its basement, and headed past a series of shuttered businesses—ruined community banks and defunct movie houses—toward the river.†   (source)
  • , and once, Andie's car, pulled down a dirt road in Hannibal after I'd taken her for a visit one day, a much more satisfying reenactment of my banal field trip with Amy (You took me here so I could hear you chat I About your boyhood adventures: crummy jeans and visor hat).†   (source)
  • In Hannibal, of all places.†   (source)
  • "This is Hannibal," I said.†   (source)
  • In the book, she'd learned that the central character, Hannibal Lecter, wasn't psychopathic, he was sociopathic; it was the first time she'd realized there was a difference between the two.†   (source)
  • Hazel and Hannibal rode straight into the room, and the standard-bearers fell backward out of their chairs.†   (source)
  • Above, they heard the sounds of battle—kids shouting, Hannibal the elephant bellowing with glee, scorpion bolts exploding, and water cannons firing.†   (source)
  • One of their roommates, Bobby, gave them a ride to the border of the valley on Hannibal the elephant.†   (source)
  • The queen's eyes gleamed—the way Hannibal the elephant's did whenever he was unleashed to destroy a fortress.†   (source)
  • Hannibal busted down the huge doors.†   (source)
  • His favorite job was caring for Hannibal the elephant, but he'd managed to mess that up, too—giving Hannibal indigestion by feeding him peanuts.†   (source)
  • By the time the rest of the cohort caught up with them, Percy and Frank had disarmed the enemies, grabbed the banners, and climbed onto Hannibal's back with Hazel.†   (source)
  • "Looks like Hannibal," Hazel said.†   (source)
  • Hazel tried to settle her stomach by thinking of pleasant things—the euphoria she'd felt last night when they'd won the war games, riding Hannibal into the enemy keep, Frank's sudden transformation into a leader.†   (source)
  • Hannibal trumpeted nervously.†   (source)
  • That's Hannibal.†   (source)
  • Of course you were—and for Hannibal—†   (source)
  • Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped.†   (source)
  • So I say that he marched on the bench, as I should say: "Hannibal marched on Rome."†   (source)
  • Bossuet had the comprehensive glance of a fasting Hannibal.†   (source)
  • But now, with another delay near Hannibal Bridge owing to grade crossing, it was twenty minutes to six before the bridge was crossed and Wyandotte Street reached.†   (source)
  • That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters.†   (source)
  • From thence they would speed via the west Parkway and the Hannibal Bridge north and east to Harlem, North Kansas City, Minaville and so through Liberty and Moseby to Excelsior Springs.†   (source)
  • Along the West Bluff Road, Washington and Second Streets, they finally made their way across the Hannibal Bridge to Harlem, and from thence along the winding and hill-sentineled river road to Randolph Heights and Minaville.†   (source)
  • In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit.†   (source)
  • And there seems no reason to doubt that if these elephants, which have now been hunted for thousands of years, by Semiramis, by Porus, by Hannibal, and by all the successive monarchs of the East—if they still survive there in great numbers, much more may the great whale outlast all hunting, since he has a pasture to expatiate in, which is precisely twice as large as all Asia, both Americas, Europe and Africa, New Holland, and all the Isles of the sea combined.†   (source)
  • Braid them, twist them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between Marcian on the east and Valentinian on the west; it is Hannibal tarrying at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube.†   (source)
  • To appear and to reign, to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of dynasties, and to transfigure Europe at the pace of a charge; to make you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the sword of God; to follow in a single man, Hannibal, Caesar, Charlemagne; to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling announcement of a battle won, to have the cannon of the Invalides to rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words which flame forever, Marengo, Arcola, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram!†   (source)
  • Among the wonderful deeds of Hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune.†   (source)
  • The work of salvage, removal of débris, human remains etc has been entrusted to Messrs Michael Meade and Son, 159 Great Brunswick street, and Messrs T. and C. Martin, 77, 78, 79 and 80 North Wall, assisted by the men and officers of the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry under the general supervision of H. R. H., rear admiral, the right honourable sir Hercules Hannibal Habeas Corpus Anderson, K. G., K. P., K. T., P. C., K. C. B., M. P, J. P., M. B., D. S. O., S. O. D., M. F. H., M. R. I. A., B. L., Mus. Doc.†   (source)
  • —Prove this, thou wicked Hannibal, or I'll have mine action of battery on thee.†   (source)
  • 'This Hector far surmounted Hannibal,'— COSTARD.†   (source)
  • Next, I saw Hannibal passing the Alps, who told me "he had not a drop of vinegar in his camp."†   (source)
  • You know how perished Croesus, Astyages, Darius, Dionysius of Syracuse, Pyrrhus, Perseus, Hannibal, Jugurtha, Ariovistus, Caesar, Pompey, Nero, Otho, Vitellius, Domitian, Richard II.†   (source)
  • I trow at Troy when Pyrrhus brake the wall,
    Or Ilion burnt, or Thebes the city,
    Nor at Rome for the harm through Hannibal,
    That Romans hath y-vanquish'd times three,
    Was heard such tender weeping for pity,
    As in the chamber was for her parting;
    But forth she must, whether she weep or sing.†   (source)
  • Hannibal had carried her arms into the heart of Italy and to the gates of Rome, before Scipio, in turn, gave him an overthrow in the territories of Carthage, and made a conquest of the commonwealth.†   (source)
  • O thou that, in the fateful valley which made Scipio the heir of glory when Hannibal and his followers turned their backs, didst bring of old a thousand lions for booty,—and it still seems credible that hadst thou been at the high war of thy brothers, the sons of the Earth would have conquered,—set us below, and disdain thou not to do so, where the cold locks up Cocytus.†   (source)
  • Lusitania had a Viriatus, Rome a Caesar, Carthage a Hannibal, Greece an Alexander, Castile a Count Fernan Gonzalez, Valencia a Cid, Andalusia a Gonzalo Fernandez, Estremadura a Diego Garcia de Paredes, Jerez a Garci Perez de Vargas, Toledo a Garcilaso, Seville a Don Manuel de Leon, to read of whose valiant deeds will entertain and instruct the loftiest minds and fill them with delight and wonder.†   (source)
  • O thou wicked Hannibal!†   (source)
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