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  • So Prince Zyperis went on pretending to be Henamor Lear, implying that Lear was a High Mage of the Golden City, traveling in disguise, and that Garen-foolish softskin!

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • What more natural than that they should accept even an obnoxious amnesiatic softskin as one of their own?

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • While they would not have much sympathy for an itinerant softskin, they would have even less for one of their own suspected of treachery.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • The scales there took a scraping but did not bruise or bleed, as would have been the case had she so struck a softskin.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • There was no need to take a traditional swing at the softskin since he had not yet turned down the proposal.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • He rushed to the rim in time to see the softskin land hard on the first sloping ledge below.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • Disregarding for the moment her own work, which she had been compelled to neglect since being assigned to watch over the softskin, Chraluuc looked on in fascination as Flinx sketched one alien image after another.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • Pausing in their playing and sculpting, the trio greeted the visitors and listened attentively as Chraluuc explained her purpose in bringing the softskin to witness their work.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • That he would eventually isolate this puzzling component of the softskin, Takuuna had no doubt.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • Takuuna did not intend to give the death-defying softskin a chance to remember.

    Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

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