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  • This last entity was run by a Blue Shirt named Tai Li, a onetime student at Whampoa who began his career by gathering information about the Communists in his class.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • While he sprawled away, a mob of blacks rushed suddenly from the cover of some rocks, the leader of the assailants being Blue Shirt, who had painted his unclad parts martial red and white.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • The rifle was recovered; but Blue Shirt, recognising that it represented victory, struggled for it determinedly.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • Let it be accepted, then, that Blue Shirt was Tom's father, since history is silent on the point, and none is left to question or authenticate it.

    Tropic Days 1887

  • Having made it known that they belonged to a neighbouring islet at the moment unfriendly to the overbearing Dunk Island tribe, Blue Shirt and his attendants mentioned that cedar-logs and other attractive flotsam bestrewed the beaches, and volunteered to conduct the strangers to the best places on the understanding that they, being alien and hostile, should remain under the protection of the rifle-carrying white men.

    Tropic Days 1887

  • While he sprawled away, a mob of blacks rushed suddenly from the cover of some rocks, the leader of the assailants being Blue Shirt, who had painted his unclad parts martial red and white.

    Tropic Days 1887

  • The rifle was recovered; but Blue Shirt, recognising that it represented victory, struggled for it determinedly.

    Tropic Days 1887

  • Retailers routinely take jabs at their competitors in ads, but the references tend to be oblique. latest TV spot in its "True Stories" series of Blue Shirt testimonials, which takes dead aim at Bentonville.

    TWICE - Digital Imaging News 2009

  • Staffing the store with extra Blue Shirt employees.

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2009

  • Coolly, he had reached behind his back for another arrow, but by then the humans had fled screaming up the trail, the last two dragging Blue Shirt’s body between them.

    THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

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