verb
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To plunder, pillage, assault.
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To make repeated attacks on an enemy.
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To strip, lay waste, ravage.
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To harass, bother or distress with demands, threats, or criticism.
Examples of harry in a Sentence
A change, however, came about towards the end of the century, when the Scandinavian freebooters known as Danes began to harry the coasts.
The true battle in this book is the one Harry must fight against himself in learning to control his emotions.
The pairing of Rowling with artist Mary GrandPré has provided the Harry Potter series with a collection of whimsical and unique artwork.
As another tick in the time line is added to the life of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling begins the task of linking the elements of her previous novels to bring about the conclusion to her story.
The Harbour Board, which was formed in 1881 and ceased to exist in 1893, effected, under the guidance of Mr Harry Escombe, enarmous improvements in the port - on which the prosperity of Durban is dependent.
In the fifth novel of the Harry Potter series villains and problems are held far away from Harry's grasp, or the attempts are made, rather, by the Order of the Phoenix.
With so many forces working against him, Harry struggles to keep his blood from boiling and, struggling from the same issue, loyal readers will find themselves turning the pages a little faster.
Harry is, as always, in the middle of the action, but never before has he been so involved or so accurate in is suspicions.
Two weeks after the end of his fifth term at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry is overjoyed to learn that in only a few days he will be taken to his friend Ron's house for the remainder of the summer.
After Dumbledore arrives and has a word with his aunt and uncle, Harry is taken first to the home of a former Hogwarts teacher whom Dumbledore hopes Harry will be able to convince to return to the school.
In his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry has taken on an army of responsibilities.
Between acting as Gryffindor's Quiddich captain, homework, friends and girl trouble, Harry struggles to find time to investigate everything.
With Voldemort's "Death Eaters" attacking frequently in the wizarding world, and mysterious attacks on students at Hogwarts, Harry must hurry to reveal the truth before it is too late.
As the story of Harry Potter falls into a more reflective state, though the corners are crawling with threats, the clouds have begun to collect over head and the tale of the Half-Blood Prince is only the calm before the storm.
Subtle instances of the static tension that has been building since book one become an undertone, dancing just under the radar as Harry discovers more about his enemy.
Harry himself has matured a great deal, perhaps because Dumbledore is no longer protecting him from the truth of his destiny, and steps up to the plate with the composure of a true hero.
Despite the obvious twists, Half Blood Prince delivers a shocking blow to the fate of Harry Potter and Rowling's conclusion to his story in book seven will no doubt be a fierce battle between good and evil.
Onboard the ship, the outcast Paris is befriended by Voyager's brand new Ensign Harry Kim (Garrett Wang).
Not only does Harry have the usual problems with homework, tests and getting to class on time that every eleven year old boy has, but he is famous; he is the "Boy Who Lived".
Among the slain was Sir John de Graham, the bosom friend of Wallace, whose death, as Blind Harry tells, threw the hero into a frenzy of rage and grief.
This visit is narrated with many untrustworthy details by Blind Harry; but the fact is established by other and indisputable evidence.
Harry Pennell, left on Jan.
By 1847, when Sir Harry Smith became high commissioner, the failure of the treaty state policy was evident.
Sir Harry, deeming no other course open to him, proclaimed (February 1848) the country between the Orange and Vaal rivers British territory, under the name of the Orange River Sovereignty.
Sir Harry had, in the previous December, extended the northern frontier of Cape Colony to the Orange, and had reoccupied the territory on the Kaffir border which D'Urban had been forced to abandon.'
The fighting power of the colony was scanty, but the governor, Sir Benjamin D'Urban, acted with promptitude, and all available forces were mustered under Colonel (afterwards Sir Harry) Smith, who reached Graham's Town on the 6th of January 1835, six days after news of the rising reached Cape Town.
In the last month of the war (December 1847) Sir Harry Smith reached Cape Town as governor of the colony, and with his arrival the Glenelg policy was reversed.
Sir Harry Smith, confronted by, a violent public agitation, agreed not to land the convicts, but to keep them on board ship in Simon's Bay till he received orders to send them elsewhere.
Sir Harry Smith, informed of the threatening attitude of the natives, proceeded to the frontier, and summoned Sandili and the other chiefs to an interview.
In April 1852 Sir Harry Smith was recalled by Earl Grey, who accused him - unjustly, in the opinion of the duke of Wellington - of a want of energy and judgment in conducting the war, and he was succeeded by Lieutenant-General Cathcart.
With fifty or a hundred ships they would fall upon some unhappy region, harry it for many miles inland, and offer battle to the landsfolk unless the latter came out in overpowering force.
Assembling in greater and ever greater confederacies, the Danes fell upon the northern kingdoms, no longer merely to harry but to conquer and occupy them.
Under two kings named Halfdan and Bacsceg, and six earls, they seized Reading and began to harry Berkshire, Surrey and Hampshire.
A punitive expedition was organized under the command of Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, the success of which was a remarkable example of good organization hastily improvised.
During all this time also the less strict party in the city and in the council did not cease to harry the reformer.
His realm was, however, threatened by dangers from without, as large numbers of his opponents had taken refuge, not only in Iceland, then recently discovered, but also in the Orkneys, Shetlands, Hebrides and Faeroes, and in Scotland itself; and from these winter quarters sallied forth to harry Norway as well as the rest of northern Europe.
The delta of the Niger has been partially surveyed since it became British territory by various ship captains, officials of the Royal Niger Company and others, including Sir Harry Johnston, sometime British consul for the Oil Rivers.
In 1824 another British fleet under Admiral Sir Harry Neal had again to bombard Algiers.
Monica ended their romance immediately after meeting Harry Turnball, a young and energetic truck driver who delivered the Parkside Sentinel.
There are a few days I don't feel like a bucket of dog puke, but I'll tell you this—I thank God every morning I wake up and see Harry snoring beside me.
He makes vague allusions to Harry Potter being his son.
Millions of children across the globe are enjoying the magical adventures of Harry Potter.
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Without the financial backing of Harry, much of the project may not have gone ahead.
Harry stepped in singing Scottish ballads, with instant success.
The 16-year-old actor admitted he is considering other projects after playing bespectacled Harry for more than five years.
Also involved, producing carvings, was Harry Hems, the noted church restorer.
Over the following weeks Harry had regular checkups to assess the fluid in his chest.
Norman is married to Bridget, a fellow classicist, and has two sons George and Harry.
Harry Toe to toe, Dancing very slow, Barely breathing, almost comatose.