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  • The Battler was a youth of great military skill and great ambition, but he was not a courtier in any sense of the word and could not be compared in Urraca's eyes with her carpet knight, Don Gomez.

    Women of the Romance Countries John Robert Effinger 1901

  • Barcode Battler, which is not a post-human rearticulation of the aspirational Australian lumpen proletariat, but a game that involved collecting bar-coded playing cards and using this proprietary reader to 'battle' (like a precursor to Pokémon or something).

    event mechanics 2008

  • His spaceship, The Batalya ( "Battler"), is a mid-sized technological marvel equipped with speed, armaments, and three artificial intelligences, two of which are shoot-first, ask-questions-later military types, and one of which is a double of his late wife, Luisa.

    Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes 2010

  • His spaceship, The Batalya ( "Battler"), is a mid-sized technological marvel equipped with speed, armaments, and three artificial intelligences, two of which are shoot-first, ask-questions-later military types, and one of which is a double of his late wife, Luisa.

    Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes 2010

  • 'Battler': Jade Goody had surgery last night to remove a golf ball-sized growth from her bowel

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • First of all I have to ask: out of all possible lead characters, could the creators have chosen one that is even more bland than "Battler"?

    Anime Nano! 2009

  • Twenty years ago we would have used the term "Battler".

    Lee's Second Life - "Finding the key" 2008

  • Word and Image: An Introduction to Early Medieval Art, one Irish psalter of the period was known as the Cathac, or "Battler," because it was regularly carried into battle as a magical weapon guaranteed to bring victory.

    futureofthebook.com 2008

  • Though Newman's career did benefit from high-profile stage work in the early 1950s (Picnic, The Desperate Hours) and memorable contributions to TV's Golden Age (The Battler, the original Bang the Drum Slowly and several more), it was a sometimes sticky apprenticeship, as evidenced by his earliest appearance available on DVD.

    Newman on DVD: A dozen picks from a superb career 2008

  • That is, until she finds herself kidnapped for use as a human sacrifice in the luring and binding of a Battler, the most dangerous kind of Sylph there is.

    Review: The Battle Sylph by L. J. McDonald Donna 2010

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