Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cranes and other gruiform birds regarded as a family or group.
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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
grue .
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Examples
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So I managed to get The Jeff, TBRE and me lost on Soapstone Mountain today in the dark with the full moon and the werewolves and grues hunting us through the darkening woods.
researchers grow a beating heart matociquala 2009
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Now wait until all 5 grues are standing in the shadow of a cage and drop them.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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In the course of your adventure you were forced to puzzle out a baffling array of near-identical rooms, face an endless number of situations which would instantly end your adventures, and always, always, keep in the light to avoid the franchise's trademark under-described bogeymen, the grues.
Games You Should Have Played - 1980 Greg Tannahill 2006
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In the course of your adventure you were forced to puzzle out a baffling array of near-identical rooms, face an endless number of situations which would instantly end your adventures, and always, always, keep in the light to avoid the franchise's trademark under-described bogeymen, the grues.
Archive 2006-04-01 Greg Tannahill 2006
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You can explain to your non-clued-in friends that grues originated in the game Zork , and were then used in several other Infocom games to point players to a light source.
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Gare maritime moderne et agitée par les mouvements des silos, grues et chariots élévateurs sur terre, il héberge aussi un univers marin merveilleusement productif.
WN.com - Articles related to Changi Airport Cargo Growth Slows 2010
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Gare maritime moderne et agitée par les mouvements des silos, grues et chariots élévateurs sur terre, il héberge aussi un univers marin merveilleusement productif.
WN.com - Articles related to Changi Airport Cargo Growth Slows 2010
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Gare maritime moderne et agitée par les mouvements des silos, grues et chariots élévateurs sur terre, il héberge aussi un univers marin merveilleusement productif.
WN.com - Articles related to Changi Airport Cargo Growth Slows 2010
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On y prend beaucoup de grues et de bistardes (outardes), et j'en vis un grand marché tout rempli; mais on les
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Legends of Zork will be a casual MMO as you take on exploring the Great Underground Empire and dodging grues.
Gaming Nexus 2009
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