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  • Rosso scooped up the falling knife and killed a third with an upcurving slash that disemboweled him.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • Rosso scooped up the falling knife and killed a third with an upcurving slash that disemboweled him.

    "Neutral Vessel" by Harl Vincent, part 3 Johnny Pez 2009

  • When she tried to approach the judicial toadstool, however, it reached out to grip her upcurving tail in massive fingers, holding her back.

    Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

  • The sled-which was actually a wagon complete with wheels over which polished planks with upcurving ends had been fixed-cost four thousand sesterces and the two oxen which pulled it a further thousand each, though the owner indicated that he would be willing to buy the equipage back in the summer for four thousand sesterces complete, leaving him with a profit of two thousand.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • Tonight his thin, upcurving brows were a good brown, as were his long thick lashes.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • She smiled, a gentle upcurving of the corners of her mouth.

    A Call to Arms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

  • At night a dragon light lit the room, its horned head supporting the torn shade, a forty-watt bulb embedded neatly in its upcurving spine.

    The Metrognome and other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

  • At night a dragon light lit the room, its horned head supporting the torn shade, a forty? watt bulb embedded neatly in its upcurving spine.

    The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

  • It had ears like a bat's, vast black eyes, and a prognathous jaw from which pro'truded a pair of upcurving tusks like a warthog's.

    The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

  • It had ears like a bat's, vast black eyes, and a prognathous jaw from which protruded a pair of upcurving tusks like a warthog's.

    The Metrognome and other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

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