kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
[ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]
blue jelly
+spotted jelly
I'd planned how to prevent the lock from sealing behind me; it
required a temporary sacrifice, not cleverness. I used the door
itself to help me cut off a portion of my body, after shunting all
extremely vain.
citrine*
A pale yellow variety of crystalline quartz resembling topaz.
+clay golem
+ It was a warm spring night when a fist knocked at the door so
+ hard that the hinges bent.
+ A man opened it and peered out into the street. There was
+ mist coming off the river and it was a cloudy night. He might
+ as well have tried to see through white velvet.
+ But he thought afterwards that there had been shapes out
+ there, just beyond the light spilling out into the road. A
+ lot of shapes, watching him carefully. He thought maybe
+ there'd been very faint points of light...
+ There was no mistaking the shape right in front of him,
+ though. It was big and dark red and looked like a child's
+ clay model of a man. Its eyes were two embers.
+ [ Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett ]
cleaver
Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed,
sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic
~gold golem
~straw golem
~wood golem
+~clay golem
*golem
"The original story harks back, so they say, to the sixteenth
century. Using long-lost formulas from the Kabbala, a rabbi is
And scatters corn and wine, and fruits and flowers.
[ Os Lusiadas, by Luis Vaz de Camoes ]
horned devil
- Horned devils lack any real special abilities, though they
+barbed devil
+ These devils lack any real special abilities, though they
are quite difficult to kill.
~horsem*
*horse
continent and to and from our own world. The precise manner
of their working is a Management secret.
[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+trident
poseido*n
Poseido(o)n, lord of the seas and father of rivers and
fountains, was the son of Chronos and Rhea, brother of Zeus,
often, alas, because the heat has not been kept low enough,
it has the consistency of wet shoe leather.
[ Joy of Cooking, by I Rombauer and M Becker ]
+~water troll
*troll
The troll shambled closer. He was perhaps eight feet tall,
perhaps more. His forward stoop, with arms dangling past
and drink, I will enjoy eating you, the biggest monkey, most
of all!" He grinned, and saliva dripped down his hairy chin.
[ Buddhist Tales for Young and Old, Vol. 1 ]
+water troll
+ It wasn't that the troll was _horrifying_. Instead of the
+ rotting, betentacled monstrosity he had been expecting
+ Rincewind found himself looking at a rather squat but not
+ particularly ugly old man who would quite easily have passed
+ for normal on any city street, always provided that other
+ people on the street were used to seeing old men who were
+ apparently composed of water and very little else. It was as
+ if the ocean had decided to create life without going through
+ all that tedious business of evolution, and had simply formed
+ a part of itself into a biped and sent it walking squishily up
+ the beach. The troll was a pleasant translucent blue color.
+ As Rincewind stared a small shoal of silver fish flashed
+ across its chest.
+ [ The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett ]
weapon
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
[ The Vor Game, by Lois McMaster Bujold ]
When first we practise to deceive!
[ Marmion, by Sir Walter Scott ]
whistle
- There were legends both on the front and on the back of the
+ There were legends both on the front and on the back of the
whistle. The one read thus:
- FLA FUR BIS FLE The other: QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT
- 'I ought to be able to make it out,' he thought;
- 'but I suppose I am a little rusty in my Latin.
- When I come to think of it, I don't believe I even
- know the word for a whistle. The long one does seem
- simple enough. It ought to mean, "Who is this who is coming?"
+ FLA FUR BIS FLE The other: QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT
+ 'I ought to be able to make it out,' he thought;
+ 'but I suppose I am a little rusty in my Latin.
+ When I come to think of it, I don't believe I even
+ know the word for a whistle. The long one does seem
+ simple enough. It ought to mean, "Who is this who is coming?"
- Well, the best way to find out is evidently to whistle
+ Well, the best way to find out is evidently to whistle
for him.'
[Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by Montague Rhodes James
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