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Examples

  • There may be dikta women already carrying my children.

    A World Out of Time Niven, Larry 1976

  • Mirelly-Lyra, we'd better hope we can mate with the dikta, because, frankly, I'm terrified of you.

    A World Out of Time Niven, Larry 1976

  • Some of the boy-children we take try to be the best so that they can be dikta.

    A World Out of Time Niven, Larry 1976

  • The small toilets that belonged to the bedrooms still had doors (at least the dikta kept that form of privacy!), but the closets didn't, and the "phone booths" had been ripped out.

    A World Out of Time Niven, Larry 1976

  • The shadow in the dark asked, "Will the dikta men find me beautiful?"

    A World Out of Time Niven, Larry 1976

  • Animals and plants and dikta ... and Boys adapted through the dikta.

    A World Out of Time Niven, Larry 1976

  • The Boys set up camp under the trees, and built their fire with wood brought by dikta women.

    A World Out of Time Niven, Larry 1976

  • I think the dikta haven't revolted for a million years because the odds weren't right.

    A World Out of Time Niven, Larry 1976

  • Eight dikta males (he must have missed one yesterday) were presenting five boychildren to the tribe.

    A World Out of Time Niven, Larry 1976

  • We can get the dikta to move _here_, because we've got the dikta immortality.

    A World Out of Time Niven, Larry 1976

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