Residents of Najaf said immediately after the bombing that men bearing guns had rushed to the office of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most senior cleric in Iraq, begging him to issue a edict consecrating an immediate jihad, or holy war, against the assassins.

The guards carried only small leather switches; Nigeria's Government no longer allows them to bear guns or knives.

The most effective killers often bear not guns but kindness, and what happened here was what happens so often in American culture: the medium transcended the message.

Around them ride men on horseback, bearing guns--for this is Indian territory.

But the first white people who showed up were bearing guns and chains.

Karnaaj of the Soldatutmarkthad arrived, bearing not gifts, but guns.

Once in place it would haul a string of pontoons back and forth across the river, bearing vehicles, tanks and guns.

Historical memory goes back no more than two generations, the government and the law are alien forces, and rich men arrive bearing documents and guns, threatening to drive families off their miserable land.

Six times did the dwarf face the torrent, bearing their goods and guns held above the water with one hand.

About five o'clock the gathering crowd in the station was immensely excited by the opening of the line of communication, which is almost invariably closed, between the South-Eastern and the South-Western stations, and the passage of carriage trucks bearing huge guns and carriages crammed with soldiers.