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  • Gore and body parts littered the warehouse floor, and the pale, gargoyle-like creatures ate and hissed and bickered.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • I think mainly it is the pundits, who are good individually but together seem trapped gargoyle-like within a lugubrious cocoon of complacency.

    Gary Lineker's jokes have you itching for a touch of punk from Africa | Barney Ronay 2012

  • The Territories house some weird stuff, none of which is explored enough because as soon as the clouds begin to turn and the gargoyle-like creatures come a-runnin ', Jack just wants back out.

    Books in 2009, #9 pabba 2009

  • Gore and body parts littered the warehouse floor, and the pale, gargoyle-like creatures ate and hissed and bickered.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • The latter is still decorated with the original gargoyle-like lintels featuring the face of a glowering old man.

    A Subtle Tribute to the Architect Dana Rubinstein 2010

  • He had not slept well during the night, and his dreams had taken him back once again to Camp Five in No Name Valley, where he had peered up through a sewer grate at the gargoyle-like presence of Sergeant Kwong and his shoulder-slung burp gun and quilted coat and earflapped cap, all of it backlit by a salmon-pink sunrise.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • He had not slept well during the night, and his dreams had taken him back once again to Camp Five in No Name Valley, where he had peered up through a sewer grate at the gargoyle-like presence of Sergeant Kwong and his shoulder-slung burp gun and quilted coat and earflapped cap, all of it backlit by a salmon-pink sunrise.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • Crooked, gargoyle-like and most certainly not American, these multilingual characters further exemplify how ridiculous Holly's American optimism is.

    Kim Morgan: Number One Third Man 2009

  • He had not slept well during the night, and his dreams had taken him back once again to Camp Five in No Name Valley, where he had peered up through a sewer grate at the gargoyle-like presence of Sergeant Kwong and his shoulder-slung burp gun and quilted coat and earflapped cap, all of it backlit by a salmon-pink sunrise.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • Afterwards, don't miss the gigantic Hall of the Grand Council (with its blacked-out portrait of disgraced doge Marin Falier), the Bridge of Sighs, the gargoyle-like letterbox for anonymous charges and the Giants 'Staircase.

    A Long-Awaited Weekend in Venice 2008

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