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  • At the edge of the horizon, a pale purple streak could still be seen-a faint remnant of the sunset.

    The Unpublished Writer and His Love Interest (The Painter) David Russo 2010

  • Compared to the sights of mechanized mass warfare I had come from, the small, pitched battles I had seen-a few men armed with swords and muskets-seemed picturesque rather than threatening to me.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • The whole place was filthy with refuse, and a few curs were prowling among it; here and there a human being was to be seen-a couple of braves sprawled and presumably drunk in the open; an old woman kindling a fire; a boy playing at the stream.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • It landed, and at that point something else in the landscape popped into view that neither the Mulzar nor Macostut had previously seen-a giant cat.

    Acorna's Rebels McCaffrey, Anne 2003

  • He had always delighted in returning home, such as it was, to tell her about any little thing he had seen-a bird skimming over a field, a tree with its leaves shimmering in the sunlight, a road lying like a ribbon over rolling hills, anything that would have brought a little of the world home to her in her prison.

    The Pillars of Creation Goodkind, Terry 2001

  • It was the strangest smoke he had ever seen-a softly glowing bluish violet, but most odd of all, it didn't swirl as Oba ran through it.

    The Pillars of Creation Goodkind, Terry 2001

  • Perched in the saddle of the great horse Piquin, with six other young adventurers at his back, Cale Greeneye scouted far afield as the tribe of Colin Stonetooth plodded onward toward a distant place none of them had ever seen-a place called Kal-Thax, which might be nothing more than legend or the dreams of old Mistral Thrax.

    The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993

  • Perched in the saddle of the great horse Piquin, with six other young adventurers at his back, Cale Greeneye scouted far afield as the tribe of Colin Stonetooth plodded onward toward a distant place none of them had ever seen-a place called Kal-Thax, which might be nothing more than legend or the dreams of old Mistral Thrax.

    The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993

  • The whole place was filthy with refuse, and a few curs were prowling among it; here and there a human being was to be seen-a couple of braves sprawled and presumably drunk in the open; an old woman kindling a fire; a boy playing at the stream.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • The whole place was filthy with refuse, and a few curs were prowling among it; here and there a human being was to be seen-a couple of braves sprawled and presumably drunk in the open; an old woman kindling a fire; a boy playing at the stream.

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

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