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“He glanced first at me, and then at his devastated flowerbed; all plowed up and butchered, like a Ripper victim- like Pearly Poll, lying…

— Russell Brand

“Christopher Lassiter pinched the top of his nose and closed his eyes. Quiet desperation is the English way.”

— Paul Cornell

“With one sweep of his gorry blade three pleecemen’s heads roled of into a heep. He shot another through the brane, another fell strangled,…

— Richmal Crompton

“The sound of carriage wheels and horses was faint,seeming more distant than they actually were. Drops of water clung to the wool of my…

— Alyxandra Harvey

“... this imminent danger seemed to take bodily shape, and I could almost fancy that I saw this most loathsome and dangerous of all…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“With drooping heads and tremulous tails, they mashed their way through the thick mud, floundering and stumbling between whiles, as if they were falling…

— Charles Dickens

“Nathaniel gave a dramatic sigh, "Oh to be perched in the rigging of the seabird, with no griping land-lovers about and only wind and…

— Nicole Sager The Heart of Arcrea

“And the peasants would beat them so cruelly, sometimes even about the nose and eyes, and he felt so sorry, so sorry for them…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped…

— P.W. Catanese

“He could easily slip and pull the trigger and accidently shoot me in the eye. A grating pain struck my shoulder blade from behind.…

— Steven Keith Hunter

“They were huge, six feet long not including the tail, and as high as my belly at their shoulders. Their entirely human eyes shone,…

— Jim Butcher

“And I wonder if any of the road-kill creatures actually wanted to die and threw themselves beneath the speeding wheels. A lethargic swallow who…

— Sara Baume