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My mahout, Scug, sat on Jenny's neck, facing her back and wielding a large sickle-like tool, which resembled no polo gear I'd seen before.
A Very Big Game Adam H. Graham 2011
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They surely would have been decapitated if not for the quick thinking of my good friend Jaap, who lunged backward in his chair and, with his baton hand, managed to steady the sickle-like umbrella before it could do further damage.
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He also had a long sickle-like knife in his backpack -- a sickle-like knife -- when they finally found him.
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From Sudak (the green arrow) follow coastline southwest (leftward) to the long peninsula with a sickle-like protrusion.
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A long arm, which for the first time he noticed was armed with curving, sickle-like talons, swung high and swept down at his neck.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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A long arm, which for the first time he noticed was armed with curving, sickle-like talons, swung high and swept down at his neck.
The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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They stood some five feet tall, and one on the attack appeared to be all reaching teeth and long sickle-like claws.
Beast Master's Circus Norton, Andre 2004
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The gray-white mass grew fins of its own, and a great, sickle-like tail.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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The gray-white mass grew fins of its own, and a great, sickle-like tail.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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A long arm, which for the first time he noticed was armed with curving, sickle-like talons, swung high and swept down at his neck.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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