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  • Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary.

    ‘Let the Great World Spin’ 2009

  • I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back.

    Ulysses 2003

  • The first time he saw the manshape, he immediately remembered all the Genovese sailors 'tales of mermen and other monsters of the deep.

    Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus Card, Orson Scott 1996

  • When they landed at last, on a high craggy tor the sides of which were too steep and wild to climb, but easy enough to reach by flight, Kieran regained his own shape and his totem took manshape as well.

    Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

  • He watched them as they approached, finally detailing themselves into two naked, pink creatures of manshape and only slightly more than mansize.

    Rebels of the Red Planet Charles Louis Fontenay 1962

  • I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary.

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary.

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • He’s starting to shift from dragon form to manshape.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

  • He’s starting to shift from dragon form to manshape.

    LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

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