Slack-jawed prison guards watched as the helicopter then spirited away as two of their prisoners clung on.

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Neath rewarded Phillips with a new three-year contract in May, but he may now be spirited away from the Gnoll by the national side.

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His wife was grabbed and spirited away onboard the pirates' speedboat.

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The German authorities ordered genetic tests after a British book asserted that Bormann had been spirited away by British commandos after the war to help them track down looted Nazi gold.

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And in 2006 the temporary return to Russia from Montenegro of the saint's reputed hand (spirited away from Russia in 1917) drew vast crowds.

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Studio Ghibli's "Spirited Away, " which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2003, remains the top-grossing Japanese film in history, and Miyazaki, who co-founded the studio in 1985, has been called "Japan's Walt Disney" for his impact on the country's animation culture.

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More has been spent on airports recently, thanks to aid from America and to the pressure of international air-safety groups, which try to ensure that aircraft landing fees are not spirited away by governments.

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