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  • "As in Highland Scotch," was the reply, "'Dhu' means 'black' and 'Roy' means 'red,' so Reach means half-and-half, or 'brown.'"

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

  • The sacred objects of the cult, the Jewels of Shanga, date back reputedly to "a half a million years ago" (14) when the priests of Caer Dhu carved them by a science now lost.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • In Brackett's story, a Martian named Kor Hal tells protagonist Burk Winters that, despite having inaugurated Shanga as an escape from war and violence, the people of Caer Dhu quickly "perished" and "in one generation ... vanished from the face of Mars."

    Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • LiveJournal user Morgan Dhu (bibliogramma) posted some thoughts about Wastelands here.

    John Joseph Adams » Another Happy Wastelands Customer 2007

  • LiveJournal user Morgan Dhu (bibliogramma) posted some thoughts about Wastelands here.

    John Joseph Adams » 2007 » December 2007

  • Steeple People thrift store's door had a sign wishing people a merry: Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Dhu al-Hijjah, Yule, Solstice, etc. or other holiday of their choice.

    Seeing dark matter, and other odd science 2006

  • I will tell them that my fair-haired Hamish fell from the Corrie Dhu (black precipice) into the gulf, of which human eye never beheld the bottom.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • While so occupied, her imagination, anticipating the future from recollections of the past, formed out of the morning mist or the evening cloud the wild forms of an advancing band, which were then called “Sidier Dhu” (dark soldiers), dressed in their native tartan, and so named to distinguish them from the scarlet ranks of the

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • Donnuil Dhu has often recurred to me in the midst of gayer scenes and companions.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • #145 Think of this while your sipping on your “Loch Dhu”, Bongwater Scotch.

    Think Progress » Air America files for bankruptcy. 2006

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