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  • Xanthic: I was by my grandfather's bed as he died in the hospital, and I wondered about the yellowness of his hands and feet.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • Xanthic: I was by my grandfather's bed as he died in the hospital, and I wondered about the yellowness of his hands and feet.

    An Alphabetic List Of Colours And My Resulting Recollections 2008

  • Periwinkle and Xanthic each transported me out of time and place to poem-space, where you can feel other peoples' dreams.

    An Alphabetic List Of Colours And My Resulting Recollections 2008

  • They kept me in irons till we were out of sight of the coast, and they worked me like a slave, but I got to see the Xanthic Lands and I went over the side there and stayed for two years.

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

  • "There's islands -- or there was -- but we might not find them, and we've not got food enough nor water neither to reach the Xanthic Lands."

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

  • But I can still speak a little of the Xanthic tongue, and more will come to my mouth when I hear it in another one.

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

  • "I know," said the Frogstar battle machine, after another moment's consideration, "you must have one of those new Xanthic Re-Structron Destabilized Zenon Emitters!"

    The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1980

  • Then, when I got back from the Xanthic Lands, you were gone. "

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

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