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Just a few fire-hardened stems poked up from the ground like desiccated fingers.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Just a few fire-hardened stems poked up from the ground like desiccated fingers.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Just a few fire-hardened stems poked up from the ground like desiccated fingers.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Pursued by two very active young men armed with fire-hardened spears, tottering along with incredible swiftness on his two spindle legs, Kwaque had fallen exhausted at Daughtry's feet and looked up at him with the beseeching eyes of a deer fleeing from the hounds.
CHAPTER III 2010
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A hundred blacks, some few armed with ancient Sniders, but the greater portion armed with tomahawks, fire-hardened spears, and bone-tipped arrows, clustered on the roots that rose out of the bay.
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And their war weapons were laid away by the sides of the lifeless bones that had wielded them — rusty old horse-pistols, derringers, pepper-boxes, five-barrelled fantastiques, Kentucky long riffles, muskets handled in trade by John Company and Hudson's Bay, shark-tooth swords, wooden stabbing-knives, arrows and spears bone-headed of the fish and the pig and of man, and spears and arrows wooden-headed and fire-hardened.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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Just a few fire-hardened stems poked up from the ground like desiccated fingers.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Porcelain After the Chinese began transforming kaolin clay into fire-hardened, gleaming white vessels about 1,800 years ago, the Italians dubbed the style porcellana , or porcelain, because it reminded them of shiny cowrie shells.
The China Factor Kelly Crow 2011
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You're not a REAL hunter if you haven't poked a mastodon with a fire-hardened, sharpened stick instead of using one of those fancy schmancy sticks with sharp rocks tied on the end.
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Let's see how they do against a guy with toad thorns sticking out from under fire-hardened fingernails who listens to kendang music.
The Kerambits Steve Perry 2006
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