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  • We hastened after him and soon another armourplated portal came into view.

    Duel Under the Double Sun Scheer, Karl 1977

  • I whirled around and aimed the micro-beamer at the thin line separating the armourplated hatch door from the bulkhead wall.

    Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976

  • The officers and officials in my retinue ducked quickly behind the armourplated buffers which had been provided for their protection.

    Blue System Scheer, Karl 1976

  • Say, little feeble grey personage, what thoughts are in thy breast to-day, of the Fancy — so still to call her who bruised thy heart when it was green and thy head brown — and whether it be better or worse, more painful or less, to believe in the Fancy to this hour, than to know her for a greedy armourplated crocodile, with no more capacity of imagining the delicate and sensitive and tender spot behind thy waistcoat, than of going straight at it with a knitting-needle.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

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