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  • Fresh-from-the-belly caviar isn't fishy, but sea-like in flavor, with a texture of cool tapioca.

    The Great California Caviar Rush Stinson Carter 2011

  • She hates him, but he has something that Amelia desperately wants--evidence that proves that Camlantis existed and that the Camlantean ruins are buried under one of the sea-like lakes that dot the murderous jungles of Liongeli.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Jeff C 2010

  • She hates him, but he has something that Amelia desperately wants--evidence that proves that Camlantis existed and that the Camlantean ruins are buried under one of the sea-like lakes that dot the murderous jungles of Liongeli.

    New Fantasy Releases: Week of May 25, 2010 Jeff C 2010

  • She hates him, but he has something that Amelia desperately wants--evidence that proves that Camlantis existed and that the Camlantean ruins are buried under one of the sea-like lakes that dot the murderous jungles of Liongeli.

    Books in the Mail (W/E 07/11/2009) RobB 2009

  • She hates him, but he has something that Amelia desperately wants--evidence that proves that Camlantis existed and that the Camlantean ruins are buried under one of the sea-like lakes that dot the murderous jungles of Liongeli.

    Archive 2009-07-01 RobB 2009

  • Colors ranged from earthy reds, oranges and browns to sea-like blues and greens.

    Showroom Stop: Graeme Black 2008

  • Have knit again, and fleet, threatening most sea-like.

    The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra 2004

  • The mountain is steep, extremely rugged, and broken, and so entirely destitute of trees, and even bushes, that we actually could not make a skewer to stretch out our meat over the fire of thistle-stalks. 61 The strange aspect of this mountain is contrasted by the sea-like plain, which not only abuts against its steep sides, but likewise separates the parallel ranges.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • The common name for the trees — “she” (or “shea” oaks, as the late F. Manson Bailey preferred) — mimics the sound of the wind among the branches, which the slightest zephyr stirs and, the storm lashes into sea-like roar.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • Our tramp is mountainous, there are vast oceans in him, and lakes that are sea-like for size, there are many rivers (veins and arteries) which are fifteen miles across, and of a length so stupendous as to make the Mississippi and the Amazon trifling little Rhode Island brooks by comparison.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

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