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  • Keeping in mind that this is a folkloric treatment, it isn't surprising that Forth's source materials in cryptozoology are a few older works (Manlike Monsters on Trial, Heuvelmans, and Napier).

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Manlike, the Professor might have looked with leniency on her lack of restraint; but the stern eye of

    Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

  • Manlike, they had told me to go to bed and sleep, as if a woman can sleep when those she loves are in danger!

    Dracula 2003

  • Manlike, he had never thought out clearly what was to become of his sister after his marriage; he had only said vaguely to himself that she should never want.

    Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

  • Manlike figures of all sizes stood against the walls, immobile.

    Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990

  • Manlike figures of all sizes stood against the walls, immobile.

    Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990

  • Manlike, yes, but not entirely human and not heavenly.

    Project Pope Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988- 1981

  • Manlike, he wore green tight-fitting trunks and a shirt of green fur that revealed bulging biceps where they shouldn't be, and angular planes where there should have been swelling muscles.

    The Door Through Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

  • Manlike he did not give himself blindly up to his misery.

    Joyce of the North Woods

  • Manlike, Donald had planned to get all the meetings over with at once, and had asked his sister to invite Marion in for afternoon tea and to meet his "protégé and prodigy" -- as Ethel had phrased it in her invitation.

    'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Eliot H. Robinson

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