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Examples
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It could feel that the grass-eater was no fighter.
The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987
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The grass-eater walked clumsily to the fence and licked something out of the man's hand.
The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987
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It barbed the grass-eater by the neck and dragged it out of the fenced enclosure.
The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987
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If you hadn't had the decency to run into that big grass-eater, we'd still be chasing you.
Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974
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Either the grass-eater king was a craven coward, or else he was almost as wise as a man: Mad Bear had not decided which-but he judged the thought itself as wise.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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They say that some of their numbers will depart from here to pass on across the Dry Lands-to a place of the grass-eater priests, a place of the dark-robed ones.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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The grass-eater chieflings are our guests, and it is known that they are easily frightened by blood.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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The people stared at the grass-eater for a moment in disgust.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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The thought of grass-eaters was, seldom good, but he had been impressed by the messages of the grass-eater king in the east, who had expounded the value of secrecy and deplored the idle boast.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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All grass-eater thought was shameless, but the officer's thought could probe that of the grass-eaters to the south.
A Canticle for Leibowitz Miller, Walter M. 1959
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