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  • I den nya kroppen ingår också en dator med meddelandesystem och mycket mera, en BrainPal, något som nästan alla tycker är väldigt irriterande.

    Two Entirely Unrelated Thoughts « Whatever 2006

  • Daniel Defoe, The Consoli - dator: or Memoirs and Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon (London, 1705).

    COSMIC VOYAGES MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

  • As I examined the heterogeneous collection of odds and ends that is always to be found in the pocket-pouch of a Martian warrior my hand fell upon the emblazoned radium flash torch of the black dator.

    The Warlord of Mars 1913

  • Terrible as they were, they could not have commenced to approximate the horrible conditions which must have obtained before Tars Tarkas, the great green warrior, Xodar, the black dator, and I brought the light of truth to the outer world and stopped the mad rush of millions upon the voluntary pilgrimage to what they believed would end in a beautiful valley of peace and happiness and love.

    The Warlord of Mars 1913

  • Do you know why I have followed Matai Shang and Thurid, the black dator, from the forests of the Valley Dor across half a world through almost insurmountable difficulties?

    The Warlord of Mars 1913

  • His dead body still lay where I had left it, nor was there any sign that another had passed through the room since I had been there; but I knew that two had done so -- Thurid, the black dator, and Dejah Thoris.

    The Warlord of Mars 1913

  • I saw the ugly gleam in Matai Shang's evil eyes as Dejah Thoris narrated all that had passed between Thurid and herself, and when she came to that part which dealt with my interference with the dator of the First Born her gratitude was quite apparent, though I could see by her eyes that something puzzled her strangely.

    The Warlord of Mars 1913

  • Then, with Woola following, I hastened across the open after the black dator.

    The Warlord of Mars 1913

  • In a hymn by Adam of St. Victor there is the striking phrase, applied to the Holy Spirit: Tu qui dator es et donum, ‘Thou who Giver art and Gift’; and in another hymn by the same writer there is a variation of the same phrase, Tu donum, tu donator, ‘Thou the Gift, Thou the Giver.’

    The Hymns of Methodism in their Literary Relations 1913

  • During these experiments Woola had been standing at my side gazing intently at the door, and as my glance fell upon him it occurred to me to test the correctness of my hypothesis, that this portal had been the means of ingress to the temple used by Thurid, the black dator, and Matai Shang, Father of Therns.

    The Warlord of Mars 1913

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