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  • By spy-ray 24of6 watched them inject fluids into the corpse, swathe it in a mass of fusing transparent bandages, shove it in a corner, and then leave.

    The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981

  • He leaped across the room to Graves 'desk; turned on a spy-ray.

    Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

  • There aren't any-we spy-ray everybody that comes in. '

    Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

  • 'Graves, have you got a spy-ray detector?' he asked boldly - and watchfully.

    Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

  • All three courses of multi-ply defensive screen were out, as were full-coverage spy-ray blocks and thought-screens.

    Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

  • Setting up a spy-ray block, he proceeded to rummage.

    Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

  • She flashed toward the derelict, matched intrinsics at a safe distance, and began scanning, only to encounter a spy-ray block around the whole vessel!

    Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

  • Time after time, from pole to pole and from midnight around the clock, Samms stabbed Visibeam and spy-ray down toward Trenco's falsely-visible surface, with consistently and meaninglessly impossible results.

    First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

  • Previous spy-ray inspection having proved that the thing was not booby-trapped,

    First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

  • Grant further that they had a man as good as Adlington-or that they could spy-ray Adlington's brain and laboratories and shops-a tall order.

    First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

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