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Now he was here, although mightily changed in form and aspect, a many-headed, many-limbed, polyglot monster of enormous generative power.
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Still, I had to ask where the many-limbed celebration was born, and the answer was jarring.
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Through the glass dark shadows moved—not the familiar shadows of men and women, but shapes too tall and thin, too oddly elongated or many-limbed to be human.
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010
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Easily five times the size of any other demon on the ship, it had an armored body, many-limbed, each appendage ending in a spiked chitinous talon.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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We know almost nothing about the many-limbed thing in the water outside Moria.
Mieville on Tolkein Tripp 2009
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Easily five times the size of any other demon on the ship, it had an armored body, many-limbed, each appendage ending in a spiked chitinous talon.
City of Ashes Cassandra Clare 2008
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In Act 2, he seemed to stagger beneath an enormous pair of white wings, supported by three acolytes who waved their arms behind him so that he resembled a many-limbed Hindu god.
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It may indeed be likened to an enormous many-limbed organism of an antediluvian time — partaking of the cephalopod in shape — lying lifeless, and covered with a thin green cloth, which hides its substance, while revealing its contour.
A Changed Man 2006
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Eventually I discovered "Law & Order," and it appears that I may end before Dick Wolf's many-limbed "L&O machine" does.
Archive 2004-06-01 M-mv 2004
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Eventually I discovered "Law & Order," and it appears that I may end before Dick Wolf's many-limbed "L&O machine" does.
The soundtrack of our lives M-mv 2004
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