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  • The nerveless hand yet gripped the broken hilt; helmeted heads back-drawn in the death-throes, tilted red beards and golden beards grimly upward, as if in last invocation to Ymir the frost-giant, god of a warrior-race.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The nerveless hand yet gripped the broken hilt; helmeted heads back-drawn in the death-throes, tilted red beards and golden beards grimly upward, as if in last invocation to Ymir the frost-giant, god of a warrior-race.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The nerveless hand yet gripped the broken hilt; helmeted heads, back-drawn in trie death throes, tilted red beards and golden beards grimly upward, as if in last invocation to Ymir the frost-giant, god of a warrior-race.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • Moonglum gasped, his teeth naked and white beneath his back-drawn lips, his breath coming short.

    The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • Moonglum gasped, his teeth naked and white beneath his back-drawn lips, his breath coming short.

    The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • The man's back was toward him, and Bill grasped the back-drawn arm at the wrist and with an ungentle jerk whirled the other in his tracks.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • She heard a guttural, growling sound beside her, lifted her eyes innocently, and for one flashing, doubtful second beheld the swollen, distorted face, the bulging eyes, the back-drawn snarling lips beside her.

    While Caroline Was Growing Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

  • His back-drawn, snarling lips exposed his great fighting fangs, and his little, wicked, blood-shot eyes gleamed in horrid reflection of his madness.

    Tarzan of the Apes 1914

  • His back-drawn, snarling lips exposed his great fighting fangs, and his little, wicked, blood-shot eyes gleamed in horrid reflection of his madness.

    Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

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