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...fears it will explode. She does not expect it will cast them adrift in space and on a collision course with a fantasy version of Earth, complete with dragons, orcs, and wizards. Unfortunately, this is exactly what happens. ...

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... Except for the complete fairy-tale fantasy idols of ancient Kings, warriors, dungeons and dragons that are sold to children. Once TV sold only sto... ...the complete fairy-tale fantasy idols of ancient Kings, warriors, dungeons and dragons that are sold to children. Once TV sold only stories about co... ...un and play as machine-oriented as possible. Walk? Heck. Buy an expensive 4&4, or a moto-cross bike and drive all over Nature… destroying the la... ...ecame steeped in mystery. They were hidden high in towers, or buried deep in dungeons. They were kept secret. The mystique of counting and numbers... ...ats merely took each person who was accused of hiding their wealth into their dungeons… and they were never heard from, or seen again. The rich ari... ... movies, then it was speaking movies, then it was movies in color: then came B&W TV, then came color TV. Instead of living and interacting with mem... ...at rage. They deflected their rage into throwing firecrackers at the Gods and Dragons they were supposed to be celebrating and worshipping. It wa... ...oung children and young people is the video-computer culture of ‘Dungeons N’ Dragons’. Young people have become obsessed with video and computer ...

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...he river, he conceived them to be grow-ing larger, as the orbs of a row of dragons ad-vancing. He turned toward the colonel and saw him lift his gigan... ...ursued imps, and yelling. To the youth it was an onslaught of redoubt-able dragons. He became like the man who lost his legs at the approach of the re... ...ke a first choice of the men who were nearest; the initial morsels for the dragons would be then those who were fol-lowing him. So he displayed the ze... ...that the other was giving a thought to his narrowed fu- ture, the pictured dungeons, perhaps, and starvations and brutali- ties, liable to the imagina...

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...of all, arms and armor, on a foray of any kind — even against fire spouting dragons, and dev A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twa... ...k the ground with a dull thud. They thought I was one of those fire—belching dragons they had heard so much about from knights and other profes siona... ...ack a day, sir, they be not of that breed! Sir Launcelot will give battle to dragons, and will abide by them, and will assail them again, and yet aga... ...ke storm; she called for her guards, and said: “Hale me these varlets to the dungeons.” That struck cold on my ears, for her dungeons had a repu tati... ...ankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 95 CHAPTER XVIII. IN THE QUEEN’S DUNGEONS WELL, I ARRANGED ALL THAT; and I had the man sent to his home... ...ame. And behold, it was the five patriarchs that had been released from the dungeons the evening before! Poor old creatures, it was all of twenty ye... ...en, who is no huckleberry hinself. This is no pic nic, these boys mean busine&s. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 165 The re...

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...nd Custom, and low-thoughted cares, _115 Like thunder-stricken dragons, for a space Left the torn human heart, their food and dwelling-pla... ...yed women throng around her path: _1585 From their luxurious dungeons, from the dust Of meaner thralls, from the oppressor’s wrath, Or t... ...Of life and death passed fearlessly and well, _3150 Dungeons wherein the high resolve is found, Racks which degraded woman’s gr... ...e quenched and die.—Yon promontory Even now eclipses the descending moon!— Dungeons and palaces are transitory— _3340 H...

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...e the enchanted palaces we read of in our child- hood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and ki... ...s you will be like him, mad enough to tie up; but, fortunately , there are dungeons here.” Dantes whirled the stool round his head. “All right, all ri... ...n himself as dead. The inspector visited, one after another, the cells and dungeons of several of the prisoners, whose good behavior or stupidity rec-... ...t. Are there any others?” “Yes; the dangerous and mad prisoners are in the dungeons.” “Let us visit them,” said the inspector with an air of fatigue. ...

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...ound, but to go round the world, and play at give and take with giants and dragons and monsters, and hear hissings and roarings and bellowings and how... ...han two thousand lance-thrusts, be they given to giants, or mon- sters, or dragons.” “All that is true,” returned Don Quixote, “but we cannot all be f... ...id Don Quixote, “even if he be shut up with him in the deepest and darkest dungeons of hell. Follow me, Sancho, for the cart goes slowly, and with the... ...nter winds and frosts; let no lions daunt him, no monsters terrify him, no dragons make him quail; for to seek these, to attack those, and to vanquish... ...or my master Don Quixote. He would have been sure to take these depths and dungeons for flowery gardens or the palaces of Galiana, and would have coun...

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...he center of his cavernous mouth. Out went the fires in an instant, and the dragon curled up and died. This man had brought brains to his aid. He had ... ...ompassion for the sufferings of the “prisoner of Chillon,” whose story Byron had told in such moving verse; so I took the steamer and made pilgrimage ... ...bout eight cents, or a family ticket for the season for two dollars. For a change, when you wanted one, you could stroll to the Castle, and burrow amo...

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...hips, each bearing the flag of its own com mander. Golden eagles, ravens, dragons, dol phins, beasts of prey, threatened England from the prows of t... ...ls rather than with men; that the peas ants, men and women, were put into dungeons for their gold and silver, were tortured with fire and smoke, were... ...n heavy irons, and driven away in open carts drawn by bullocks, to various dungeons where they were most inhumanly treated, and where some of them wer... ...he third. This Act alone filled the prisons, which were then most dreadful dungeons, to overflowing. The Covenanters in Scotland had already fared no ...

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...is than in cleaving giants asunder, cutting off ser- pents’ heads, slaying dragons, routing armies, destroying fleets, and breaking enchantments, and ... ...d play at give and take with 425 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. giants and dragons and monsters, and hear hissings and roarings and bellowings and how... ...han two thousand lance-thrusts, be they given to giants, or mon- sters, or dragons.” “All that is true,” returned Don Quixote, “but we cannot all be f... ...id Don Quixote, “even if he be shut up with him in the deepest and darkest dungeons of hell. Follow me, Sancho, for the cart goes slowly, and with the... ...or my master Don Quixote. He would have been sure to take these depths and dungeons for flowery gardens or the palaces of Galiana, and would have coun...

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...e was wont to fling his victims, and below this terrace were bottle-shaped dungeons where men, bro- ken and torn, thrust in at the neck-like hole abov... ...t me. I felt that science was producing a poisonous swarm, a nest of black dragons. They were crouching here and away there in France and England, the...

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...ht so much, of whom I was so proud, who had ap- peared so worthless in the dungeons of the Chateau d’If, and whom I had succeeded in making so great, ... ...e you, then? Who are you?” “I am the spectre of a wretch you buried in the dungeons of the Chateau d’If. God gave that spectre the form of the Count o... ...immediately fell upon the epigraph, and he read, “`Thou shalt tear out the dragons’ teeth, and shall trample the lions under foot, saith the Lord.’” “...

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...i- cian, in her presence, and for her deliverance? But why talk to thee of dragons, who would be driven back by a dragon-fly. There thou hast missed t... ...Kenilworth, while his dethroned sovereign, Edward II., lan- guished in its dungeons. Old John of Gaunt, “time-honoured Lancaster,” had widely extended... ...element, dived and rose, hissed and roared, and spouted fire, like so many dragons of enchantment sporting upon a burn- ing lake. Even Amy was for a m...

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...ack their prisoned feet had worn—and stopped and gazed again. Men in their dungeons stretched their cramp cold limbs and cursed the stone that no brig... ...s’ castles, and princesses tied up to pegs by the hair of their heads, and dragons bursting out from behind gates, and other incidents of the like na ... ...Mr Swiveller, as he walked into the office with the bill in his hand. ‘She dragons in the business, conducting themselves like professional gentlemen;...

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...s again. The mighty Mars in mortal fetters bound, 109 And lodged in brazen dungeons underground, Full thirteen moons imprison’d roar’d in vain; Otus a... ...rk infold, T wice ten of tin, and twelve of ductile gold; Three glittering dragons to the gorget rise, Whose imitated scales against the skies Reflect...

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...work, or, advancing smoothly to their journey’s end, and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their recepti... ...ker,’ said Cleopatra, ‘with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengea...

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...re certainly rendered the subject no incongruous one. ‘Talk to me of fiery dragons! But talk to me of poverty and wealth, and there indeed we touch up... ... the raw dark staircase, as many of his ancestors had probably sat down in dungeons, taking what befell him as it might befall. After a time, when he ...

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...work, or, advancing smoothly to their journey’s end, and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their recepti... ...ker,’ said Cleopatra, ‘with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengea...

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...eaty. Indeed it must be conceded to the 29 Charles Dickens whole brood of dragons of modern times, that they have made a great advance in civilisatio... ...bserved Chollop. ‘And no windows to put ‘em on,’ said Mark. ‘No stakes, no dungeons, no blocks, no racks, no scaffolds, no thumbscrews, no pikes, no p...

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...aying robbers, rescuing the distressed, and achieving noble feats of arms. Dragons and giants existed in his day no more, or be sure he would have had... ...le part of his life in Germany; was confined there for thirty years in the dungeons of Spielberg; and, escaping thence to England, was, under pretence... ...-waist- coats were taken off from the wretched captives languishing in the dungeons; the guardians were invested in these shameful garments, and with ... ... fro, amidst old black canvas, Gothic halls, thrones, paste- board Cupids, dragons, and such like. Such dirt, darkness, crowd, confusion and gabble of...

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...s sons Sprang they. All T rojans panic stricken fled, Seeing those fearsome dragons in their town. No man, though ne’er so dauntless theretofore, Dar... ... sky dark water and fire!” And to Aeolia came she, isle of caves, Of echoing dungeons of mad raging winds With rugged ribs of mountain overarched, Whe...

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... Morals else could conveniently be made of them.’ However hor- rible these dungeons may have been, it is certain that they were paid for, and that far... ...and we think you will admit that, if we have not made it ‘an habitation of dragons,’ we have at least transformed it into ‘a court for owls.’ Solemnit...

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...escend on fire-wings, of Swedish musketry, and deliver her from these foul dragons,—if, alas, the assassin’s pistol intervene not! But, in fact, Count... ...crats male and female are haled to the Castle; lie crowded in subterranean dungeons there, bemoaned by the hoarse rushing of the Rhone; cut out from h... ... no name!—Darkness and the shadow of horrid cruelty envelopes these Castle Dungeons, that Glaciere Tower: clear only that many have entered, that few ... ...long-wavering, trem- bling on the verge of the horizon, has set, in Olmutz Dungeons; this History knows him no more. Adieu, thou Hero of two worlds; t...

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...d the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their deso- late houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces; and her time is near to come, and her da... ...you; Mosiah 2:13 13 Neither have I suffered that ye should be confined in dungeons, nor that ye should make slaves one of another, nor that ye should... ... wives, and for their children; therefore they exerted themselves and like dragons did they fight. Mosiah 20:12 12 And it came to pass that they foun... ...hey had power given unto them, insomuch that they could not be confined in dungeons; neither was it pos- sible that any man could slay them; neverthel... ...ief captain, or their chief leader and commander; yea, they did fight like dragons, and many of the Nephites were slain by their hands, yea, for they ...

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... him. He imagined them, war- riors out of old tales, on their way to clay dragons in en- chanted woods, clever-fingered guildsmen and artisans, cupi... ...history books used to talk about prisoners who were let out after years in dungeons, not being able to stand it, and going back to their cells?” “D’yo...

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...etter used amongst the Moors and T ar- tars, the murderers in the criminal dungeons, yea, the very dogs in your house, than are the poor wretched stud... ...rickings and smart stingings in his arms and legs of those little speckled dragons which the Arabians call meden. You are to blame for offering to exp... ...zardan, Nabuzardan, Nabuzardan. Thus shouting and hooting they fought like dragons, and charged through the Pattipans and Sausages. The Chitterlings p... ...s. Domeses. Amphisbenes. Spanish flies. Dryinades. Anerudutes. Catoblepes. Dragons. Abedissimons. Horned snakes. Elopes. Alhartrafz. Caterpillars. Enh...