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  • Her gentle, kindly mistress had vanished like smoke, taken over by a deamhan, a she-devil.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

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  • "Her gentle, kindly mistress had vanished like smoke, taken over by a deamhan, a she-devil."

    —Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn (NY: Dell, 1997), 703

    January 20, 2010