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These are the Things that Make a Man
Iron enough to make a nail,
Lime enough to paint a wall,
Water enough to drown a dog,
Sulphur enough to stop the fleas,
Potash enough to wash a shirt,
Gold enough to buy a bean,
Silver enough to coat a pin,
Lead enough to ballast a bird,
Phosphor enough to light the town,
Poison enough to kill a cow,
Strength enough to build a home,
Time enough to hold a child,
Love enough to break a heart.
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Terry Pratchett (Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3))
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A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.
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Terry Pratchett (Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches, #3))
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If you took the world away and just left the elctricity, it would look like the most exquisite filigree ever made - a ball of twinkling silver lines with the occasional coruscating spike of a satellite beam. Even the dark areas would glow with radar and commercial radio waves. It could be the nervous system of a great beast.
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Terry Pratchett (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)
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You weren't entirely useless, you served as a bad example
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Terry Virts (How to Astronaut: Everything You Need to Know Before Leaving Earth)
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Tiffany’s father didn’t cry but gave her a silver dollar and rather gruffly told her to be sure to write home every week, which is a man’s way of crying.
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Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32))
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This was music that had not only escaped, but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver.
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Terry Pratchett (Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3))
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In order to enhance the occult aspects of herself, Julia had begun to wear far too much handbeaten silver jewelry and green eyeshadow. She felt she looked haunted and gaunt and romantic, and she would have, if she had lost another thirty pounds. She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.
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Terry Pratchett (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)
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Where I come from, Annagramma, they have the Sheepdog Trials. Shepherds travel there from all over to show off their dogs. And there're silver crooks and belts with silver buckles and prizes of all kinds, Annagramma, but do you know what the big prize is? No, you wouldn't. Oh, there are judges, but they don't count, not for the big prize. There is - there was a little old lady who was always at the front of the crowd, leaning on the hurdles with her pipe in her mouth with the two finest sheepdogs ever pupped sitting at her feet. Their names were Thunder and Lightning, and they moved so fast, they set the air on fire and their coats outshone the sun, but she never, ever put them in the Trials. She knew more about sheep than even sheep know. And what every young shepherd wanted, really wanted, wasn't some silly cup or belt but to see her take pipe out of her mouth as he left the arena and quietly say 'That'll do,' because that meant he was a real shepherd and all the other shepherds knew it, too. And if you'd told him he had to challenge her, he'd cuss at you and stamp his foot and tell you he'd sooner spit the sun dark. How could he ever win? She was shepherding. It was the whole of her life. What you took away from her you'd take away from yourself. You don't understand that, do you? But it's the heart and the soul and center of it! The soul... and... center!
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Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2))
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Jesus comes in all shapes and sizes. You need to learn to see him in every pair of eyes you ever lock onto.
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Terrie Todd (The Silver Suitcase)
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She ran her hand over his cock and said, "This is the only thing I ever want to come between us."
His grin couldn't have stretched any further.
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Terry Spear (A Silver Wolf Christmas (Heart of the Wolf #17; Silver Town Wolf #5))
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My brothers and I love A Christmas Story. It reminds us of ourselves when we were that age."
"Your father didn't want to give you a BB shotgun because you might shoot your eye out?
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Terry Spear (A Silver Wolf Christmas (Heart of the Wolf #17; Silver Town Wolf #5))
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Can you handle it?"
"Hell yeah."
"I mean..." Tom glanced around the tavern where pack members filled nearly every chair at the wooden tables. The room was humming with conversation. He leaned forward. "Because of the ghosts."
"That don't exist."
"Right."
"Yeah, I can handle it.
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Terry Spear (A Silver Wolf Christmas (Heart of the Wolf #17; Silver Town Wolf #5))
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You sure you don't want me to come over? We could make a snowman in the garden, or one in front of the hotel for the guests' arrival tomorrow. Or we could build snow forts and have a snowball fight. Surefire way to wear you out and make you sleepy. Then we could have cocoa with marshmallows on top. And I've been dying to have a piece of that seven-layer chocolate cake. I can't quit thinking about it.
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Terry Spear (A Silver Wolf Christmas (Heart of the Wolf #17; Silver Town Wolf #5))
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Death lived in a black world, where nothing was alive and everything was dark and his great library only had dust and cobwebs because he’d created them for effect and there was never any sun in the sky and the air never moved and he had an umbrella stand. And a pair of silver-backed hairbrushes by his bed. He wanted to be something more than just a bony apparition. He tried to create these flashes of personality but somehow they betrayed themselves, they tried too hard, like an adolescent boy going out wearing an after-shave called “Rampant.
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Terry Pratchett (Hogfather (Discworld, #20))
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They agreed to pay 5000 lb of gold, 30,000 of silver, 3000 scarlet sheepskins (the Goths must have been a very well turned out army) and 3000 lb of pepper (they were already, of course, well seasoned).
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Terry Jones (Terry Jones' Barbarians)
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We all think we understand each other,' Kin heard Silver say. 'We eat together, we trade, many of us pride ourselves on having alien friends - but all this is only possible, only possible, Kin, because we do not fully comprehend the other. You've studied Earth history. Do you think you could understand the workings of of the mind of a Japanese warrior a thousand years ago? But he is as a twin to you compared with Marco, or with myself. When we use the word "cosmopolitan" we use it too lightly - it's flippant, it means we're galactic tourists who communicate in superficialities. We don't comprehend. Different worlds, Kin. Different anvils of gravity and radiation and evolution.
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Terry Pratchett (Strata)
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A single gleaming sword sat in the middle on a raised portion of the red velvet. Magda noticed an ornate gold and silver scabbard attached to a baldric lying on the floor. The scabbard was so striking that it could only belong with the sword.
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Terry Goodkind (The First Confessor (The Legend of Magda Searus, #1))
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In order to enhance the occult aspects of herself, Julia had begun to wear far too much handbeaten silver jewelry and green eyeshadow. She felt she looked haunted and gaunt and romantic, and she would have, if she had lost another thirty pounds.
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Terry Pratchett (Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch)
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Julia Petley from Hair Today,* the hairdressers' on the High Street, fresh out of school and convinced that she herself had unplumbed occult depths. In order to enhance the occult aspects of herself, Julia had begun to wear far too much handbeaten silver jewelry and green eyeshadow. She felt she looked haunted and gaunt and romantic, and she would have, if she had lost another thirty pounds. She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.
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Terry Pratchett (Good Omens)
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Terry Allen and a larger portion of his 1st Division descended on Oran from the sandstone hills above St. Cloud, a key crossroads east of the city, and the salt lakes farther south. Children in dirty kaftans shouted “Hi yo, Silver!” or flung stiff-arm Fascist salutes to liberators they presumed to be German. Veiled Berber women with indigo tattoos peered through casement shutters, and in cafés men wearing fezzes looked up from their tea glasses long enough to applaud the passing troops, African-style: arms extended, clapping hands hinged at the wrists, no pretense of sincerity. A war correspondent seeking adjectives to describe the locals settled on “scrofulous, unpicturesque, ophthalmic, lamentable.” Exhausted
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Rick Atkinson (An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943)
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Roberta went on, ‘We’ll have your luggage brought in . . . What else? Jules can show you how to use the galley. We generally eat fresh produce from the forest, but you may find it easier to use the food printer units.’ Dev frowned. ‘Food printer?’ Stella said, ‘Like your own matter printers, but rather more sophisticated. And based to some extent on silver-beetle technology – you know something about that. It’s voice activated; you can ask for a wide variety of foodstuffs.’ ‘Replicators,’ Dev said. ‘They’ve got replicators.’ He stepped forward to inspect the nondescript ceramic boxes. He could see no power connection; maybe there was some kind of energy-beam technology, invisible transmission. Roberta said, ‘With such devices we have made a major step towards a true post-scarcity society. Hunger banished without labour, for ever.’ Dev couldn’t resist it. ‘Can it give me Earl Grey tea?’ Lee grinned. ‘Hot!’ The
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Terry Pratchett (The Long Cosmos (Long Earth #5))
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Citrine’s expression grew dark. “No one insults my plants.” “Yes,” Adrien said. “Sorry, sorry, sunlight dragon. Your plants are the most amazing and worthwhile plants in the world.” Citrine
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Terry Bolryder (Silver (Date-A-Dragon, #2))
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Are you okay, brother? That was a bit over the top.” Adrien waved his hand, tears streaming down his cheeks, laughing too hard to talk. “That… she… knocked her the fuck out…” Sever
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Terry Bolryder (Silver (Date-A-Dragon, #2))
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You work hard. What do I care about your past?” He looked her square in the eyes, sending a shiver down her back. “I want to be your future.” Holy
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Terry Bolryder (Silver (Date-A-Dragon, #2))
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The King of the Silver River nodded. “Very well. Panterra Qu has a destiny to fulfill that is not altogether dissimilar from the one given to the boy Hawk. But Panterra is not imbued with magic like his ancestor was. What he has is the ability to wield magic in a way no other has since the Knights of the Word came into the valley to escape the Great Wars. What he also has is a task that would crush the soul and spirit of anyone who knew the truth of its demands. It is a task which he must assume nevertheless.” He paused, and then unexpectedly he smiled. “He is to lead the people of the valley back into the larger world, where they and their descendants will settle and multiply and eventually become dominant once again.
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Terry Brooks (The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2))
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Igor’s weapon of choice was a little different. It was tipped with silver (for werewolves), hung with garlic (for vampires) and wrapped around with a strip of blanket (for bogeymen). For everyone else the fact that it was two feet of solid bog-oak usually sufficed.
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Terry Pratchett (Hogfather (Discworld, #20))
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Galder Weatherwax, Supreme Grand Conjuror of the Order of the Silver Star, Lord Imperial of the Sacred Staff, Eighth Level Ipsissimus and 304th Chancellor of Unseen University, wasn’t simply an impressive sight even in his red nightshirt with the hand-embroidered mystic runes, even in his long cap with the bobble on, even with the Wee Willie Winkie candlestick in his hand. He even managed to very nearly pull it off in fluffy pompom slippers as
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Terry Pratchett (The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2))
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Laurel returned to CJ's bedroom. "Do you want me to remove your clothes?"
"Hell, yeah," he said, and the growly expression immediately vanished.
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Terry Spear (A Silver Wolf Christmas (Heart of the Wolf #17; Silver Town Wolf #5))
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They began to eat their grilled cheese sandwiches. The extra-sharp cheese added the perfect tanginess, as did the dill pickles.
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Terry Spear (A Silver Wolf Christmas (Heart of the Wolf #17))
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But you can tell he’s a wizard, because he’s got a pointy hat with a floppy brim. It’s got the word “Wizzard” embroidered on it in big silver letters, by someone whose needlework is even worse than their spelling.
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Terry Pratchett (Sourcery (Discworld, #5))
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I want the nickel-plated Smith & Wesson,” Candy said. “I have a silver snakeskin belt that will go perfectly with it.” “Done, girl. Style points are always appreciated. We may be robbing this joint, but there is no excuse for looking tacky.” Terry
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Josh Stallings (Young Americans)
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It’s not the dead people you got to worry about… It’s the living that are scary.
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Terry Spear (Between a Wolf and a Hard Place (Heart of the Wolf #21; Silver Town Wolf #7))
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Do you believe in ghosts?
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Terry Spear (Between a Wolf and a Hard Place (Heart of the Wolf #21; Silver Town Wolf #7))
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Zorro pulled her into his arms and crushed her against his body, kissing her soundly on the mouth.
“My, what a big sword you have, sir,” she said, sweeping her hand over his sheathed sword.
“I’m fully armed,” he said, “with that and more.
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Terry Spear (Between a Wolf and a Hard Place (Heart of the Wolf #21; Silver Town Wolf #7))
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She was thinking she needed to post a letter in the Lonely Hearts column in the Silver Town Gazette: She-wolf seeking male wolf who believes in ghosts. No others need apply.
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Terry Spear (Between a Wolf and a Hard Place (Heart of the Wolf #21; Silver Town Wolf #7))
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You are such a wolf.”
“When it comes to you? Absolutely.
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Terry Spear (Between a Wolf and a Hard Place (Heart of the Wolf #21; Silver Town Wolf #7))
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Three more awards received in 2017
Gold for Seb Cage Begins His Adventures
Gold for The Time Slipsters
Silver for The Deaduction Agency
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Terry Tumbler
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I’ll tell you what my mother always said. ‘When it comes to marriage, if both don’t win, nobody wins.’ The longer I lived with your dad, the more I saw the truth in that. In the end, nobody won.” “Well,
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Terrie Todd (The Silver Suitcase)
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We all think we understand each other,' Kin heard Silver say. 'We eat together, we trade, many of us pride ourselves on having alien friends - but all this is only possible, only possible, Kin, because we do not fully comprehend the other. You've studied Earth history. Do you think you could understand the workings of of the mind of a Japanese warrior a thousand years ago? But he is as a twin to you compare with Marco, or with myself. When we use the word "cosmopolitan" we use it too lightly - it's flippant, it means we're galactic tourists who communicate in superficialities. We don't comprehend. Different worlds, Kin. Different anvils of gravity and radiation and evolution.
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Terry Pratchett
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Brett will need some clothes if someone can drop some by.”
“All we need is a bear rug,” Meghan said.
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Terry Spear (Between a Wolf and a Hard Place (Heart of the Wolf #21; Silver Town Wolf #7))
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Unless the she-wolf agrees, there’s always a chance of rejection.
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Terry Spear (Between a Wolf and a Hard Place (Heart of the Wolf #21; Silver Town Wolf #7))
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Had they really buried Gram yesterday? And now life was supposed to return to normal, with breakfasts and laundry, and grandmothers with grandchildren.
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Terrie Todd (The Silver Suitcase)
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It’s a genuine Burleigh and Stronginthearm double-action triple-cantilever crossbow with a polished walnut stock and engraved silver facings!
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Terry Pratchett (Hogfather (Discworld, #20))
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It was a dining room, containing the kind of table where the people at the other end are in a different time zone. One end had been colonized by silver candlesticks.
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Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8))
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All the way, my Savior leads me, what have I to ask beside? Can I doubt his tender mercy, who through life has been my guide? Heavenly peace, divinest comfort, here by faith in Him to dwell For I know, whate’er befall me, Jesus doeth all things well. All the way my Savior leads me, O the fullness of His love Perfect rest to me is promised in my Father’s house above. When my spirit, clothed immortal, wings its flight to realms of day, This my song through endless ages: Jesus led me all the way.
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Terrie Todd (The Silver Suitcase)
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Death lived in a black world, where nothing was alive and everything was dark and his great library only had dust and cobwebs because he’d created them for effect and there was never any sun in the sky and the air never moved and he had an umbrella stand. And a pair of silver-backed hairbrushes by his bed. He wanted to be something more than just a bony apparition.
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Terry Pratchett (Hogfather (Discworld, #20))
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Rufous Hummingbirds that do not elect to make the easy stop in Southern California migrate north up the coast before nesting in forests from the Sierra and Rocky Mountains to south-central Alaska. Rufous remain in their northern habitats only a few months to breed and nest. By August, adult males spearhead the wave back south through the Rocky Mountains and the sky islands, reaching central Mexico in October, where they spend the winter molting their feathers before commencing their long flight north in March. To accomplish these mind-boggling journeys, hummingbirds rely on the wisdom of their genetic history and the information stored in tiny brains the size of silver cupcake beads. Envisioning these near-weightless fliers braving the formidable obstacles posed by wind, fire, rain and snow to adjust to the seasons of the earth is nothing short of awe-inspiring.
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Terry Masear (Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood)
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Even staunch, black-leather modernists succumb to the lure of the Christmas season with selective touches of silver, gold, and, yes, glitter.
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Terry Taylor (A Very Beaded Christmas: 45 Projects That Glitter, Twinkle & Shine)
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The light dimmed a little as Chase’s form filled the doorway. Kahlan gave a start when she saw him. He was wearing a chain-mail shirt over a tan leather tunic, heavy black pants, boots, and cloak. Black gauntlets were tucked behind a wide black belt set with a large silver buckle emblazoned with the emblem of the boundary wardens. Strapped everywhere were enough armaments to outfit a small army. On an ordinary man the effect would have been silly; on Chase it was frightening. He was an image of overt threat, deadly with every weapon he carried. Chase had two basic expressions he wore most of the time, the first a look of feigned ignorant disinterest, the second, one that made him seem as if he was about to participate in a slaughter. He wore the second this day.
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Terry Goodkind (Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth #1))
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(the stall-holder carelessly shortchanged her, and only realized later that he had inexplicably handed over two silver pieces; also, rats mysteriously got in and ate all his stock during the night, and his grandmother was struck by lightning).
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Terry Pratchett (Equal Rites (Discworld, #3))
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It is not true that things are never as bad as they seem or that grass is always greener on the other side of the fence or that there is a silver lining inside every cloud. These are things we wish were true, but which are more often than not false hopes.
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Terry Brooks (A Princess of Landover (Magic Kingdom of Landover, #6))
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It’s a genuine Burleigh and Stronginthearm double-action triple-cantilever crossbow with a polished walnut stock and engraved silver facings!” “—a crass commercialization of a date which is purely of astronomical significance,” said Visit, who seldom paid attention when he was in mid-denounce.
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Terry Pratchett (Hogfather (Discworld, #20))
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Keep hoping, big bear. You never know, I might mistake you for a hot chick one day and follow you home by accident.” Terry sighs again. “I wait in earnest, oh broody one.
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Kat Silver (Dark Flame (Flame Born, #1))
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The next item was a tattered old green hymnbook with Tabernacle Hymns printed on the front cover;
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Terrie Todd (The Silver Suitcase)
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Silver stars weren’t awarded frequently, and gold stars happened less than once a fortnight, and were vied for accordingly. Right now Miss Susan selected a silver star. Pretty soon Vincent the Keen would have a galaxy of his very own. To give him his due, he was quite disinterested in which kind of star he got. Quantity, that was what he liked. Miss Susan had privately marked him down as Boy Most Likely To Be Killed One Day By His Wife.
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Terry Pratchett (Thief of Time (Discworld, #26))
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On the far side of the pond, a silver-haired white man in a terry-cloth robe struggled to fill out the client paperwork on his LFD. Con gave him points for trying. A lot of people over forty had a hard time with next-gen light-field devices and clung to their legacy smartphones rather than adapting. She watched him adjust the fit of his LFD, which rested behind the ear like an old-fashioned hearing aid and projected data to a floating point six inches in front of the user’s eyes. When that didn’t solve his problem, he reached out with both hands like he was trying to feel his way in the dark. It really wasn’t necessary. LFDs were paired to their users and would read hand movements from any position. Kids who had grown up with the technology were blindingly fast, all ten fingers working independently, hands fluttering at their sides. But for older users like the silver fox over there, the need to “touch” the screen was hard to break. The results could be hilariously uncoordinated. Exactly why kids mocked their parents as “zombs” for the way they flailed their arms in front of their faces.
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Matthew FitzSimmons (Constance (Constance, #1))