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  • noun Plural form of flayer.

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Examples

  • “If you mean those who travel with the better filled purses,” answered the Scot, “I am none of the number, and will rather stand my chance of your flayers on the highway, than of your flayers in the hostelrie.”

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • She gifted the algorithmists their hyper-space minds which cut through everything in between, and without Wilma, what chance did the tomato flayers stand?

    The World Here Matthew Sanborn Smith 2006

  • You mean the same githyanki that are the sworn enemies of the mind flayers?

    The nerd circle is unbroken Tripp 2006

  • She gifted the algorithmists their hyper-space minds which cut through everything in between, and without Wilma, what chance did the tomato flayers stand?

    Archive 2006-10-01 Matthew Sanborn Smith 2006

  • Working usually in pairs, flayers moved from village to village.

    Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies James E. Austin 2000

  • Hides passed through several layers of the traditional system of middlemen; flayers received no differential price for higher-quality hides.

    Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies James E. Austin 2000

  • Working usually in pairs, flayers moved from village to village.

    Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies James E. Austin 2000

  • Hides passed through several layers of the traditional system of middlemen; flayers received no differential price for higher-quality hides.

    Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies James E. Austin 2000

  • Flinching with the victims as they were fed into the hoppers of slowly turning mills, wincing at the unbelievable acts of the boilers, the beaters, the scourgers, the flayers, suffering themselves every possible and many apparently impossible nightmares of slow and hideous torture -- with clenched fists and locked teeth, with sweating foreheads over white and straining faces, Kinnison and vanBuskirk stayed.

    Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950

  • Arrived at the _dâk_ bungalow the tiger's carcase was lowered to the ground and given over to the knives of the flayers summoned from the

    The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

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