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  • Jaime slid Widow's Wail from its scabbard and slashed at the redhead's neck, all in one swift motion.

    Suvudu Final Four grrm 2010

  • A decent weapon, no doubt, but Widow's Wail was Valyrian steel, forged with dragonflame and tempered with spells, and every time the two blades touched another chip was carved from Kvothe's sword.

    Suvudu Final Four grrm 2010

  • A curved blade, and light, yet somehow it stood up to Widow's Wail, which no common steel could ever hope to do.

    Trial of Seven grrm 2010

  • "Every tale needs an ending, chronicler," Jaime told him, as he wiped the blood off Widow's Wail.

    Suvudu Final Four grrm 2010

  • "I call that one, 'the Lion Knocks the Dragon on his Tail,'" he said as he laid the point of Widow's Wail against the apple of Rand's throat.

    Trial of Seven grrm 2010

  • A Widow's Story is called a memoir, but the word seems too slight for the grandeur of what Joyce Carol Oates does in this work of startling intimacy, humanity, humility, and wisdom -- "Wisdom one might do without," she says, "if wisdom springs from terrible loss."

    Elizabeth Benedict: Joyce Carol Oates: A Widow's Derangement Elizabeth Benedict 2011

  • It's an unthreatening simulacrum of dark passion in which everything wild and unheimlich about sexual obsession, murder, disfigurement and – my personal favourite – Dostoyevskian self-loathing is benumbed with unremittingly sweet tunes many of which, according to Kit and the Widow's turn at August's Comedy Prom, Lloyd Webber recycled from older, better composers.

    I don't know how to love him (the Phantom of the Opera, that is) 2011

  • God, just watched it again ... it is SO BAD. drdang so Black Widow's definitely one of the good guys ...

    Two New Iron Man 2 TV Spots Show Brief Glimpses of Action | /Film 2010

  • A Widow's Story is called a memoir, but the word seems too slight for the grandeur of what Joyce Carol Oates does in this work of startling intimacy, humanity, humility, and wisdom -- "Wisdom one might do without," she says, "if wisdom springs from terrible loss."

    Elizabeth Benedict: Joyce Carol Oates: A Widow's Derangement Elizabeth Benedict 2011

  • Widow's Wail caught and turned most of his attacks, and those that slipped through glanced harmlessly off his plate.

    Trial of Seven grrm 2010

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