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  • BTW, in my view, think that the best approach to defending meat-eating or attacking veg*anism is personal stigmatization and mockery of vegetarians.

    With Enemies Like These… 2008

  • He thinks that it is a depressing book: "the British sex-gloom, and then the cruel Catholic purit anism."

    Diaries Erich Eichman 2010

  • Citizen Blue brought in his own crew to check the mech - anism of the dragons.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • How dreadful are the curses which Mohammed-anism lays on its votaries!

    Archive 2008-05-01 Dymphna 2008

  • How dreadful are the curses which Mohammed-anism lays on its votaries!

    Sir Winston was a bit of prophet, wasn't he? Dymphna 2008

  • Citizen Blue brought in his own crew to check the mech - anism of the dragons.

    Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989

  • "A useful defensive mech-anism on a world of silicates."

    Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985

  • It took them through a section of shifting floors'that had no effect on them now-and a forest of glistening spears that might be coated with poison, and a hall whose walls were on rollers, ready to close on whoever was unwary enough to trigger the mech - anism by putting weight on the key panel of the floor.

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

  • Those sparks were another heat-dissipating mech - anism, and though the snow and ice had cooled the hooves below sparking level, there was still plenty of heat to serve.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • Those sparks were another heat-dissipating mech - anism, and though the snow and ice had cooled the hooves below sparking level, there was still plenty of heat to serve.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

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