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Examples

  • It used to be that she could never see the pirate ships, only hear them as they slid through the darkness, the mudo lashed to their hulls.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

  • They watched her as they glided by in the night, and Iza wondered what was worse—the mudo, or the moon gleaming off the teeth of the pirates.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

  • All Iza knew was that the homber mata killed the mudo, but it was her father himself who killed her mother.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

  • Her father added three more layers of fences to the land sides of the landhuizen and replaced the wide staircase to the floating dock at the base of the cliffs with a narrow ladder the mudo could never climb.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

  • When Iza was young she had nightmares that the mudo were coming for her.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

  • She looks down at the blood seeping into her white nightgown, knowing it will attract the mudo.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

  • A lihémorto bursts from the house but is caught in the curtain, twisting and clawing at the fabric like the mudo under the tarps on the pirate ship.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

  • Iza wants to ask him if it will end, if the mudo will ever go away.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

  • Or that they infected prisoners and forced them into cages that they dropped into the water so that the infected would die and come back to life as lihémorto—the fast-moving mudo.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

  • The moans of the mudo slithered into her dreams, a tinge at the edge of her memory.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

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  • Spanish: mute, silent

    September 12, 2007