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  • Exquisitely crafted and beautifully engraved, in the film the sand flows out of gill-like blades that run along the blade.

    /Film Visits The Set of Prince Of Persia - Part 1 | /Film 2009

  • Above the two large claws come two others, covered with hair, a little underneath the mouth; and underneath these the gill-like formations in the region of the mouth, hairy and numerous.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • He pointed to the gill-like structure on the backpack that Kumar was already wearing.

    The Songs of Distant Earth Clarke, Arthur C. 1986

  • The eyes were sunken under brows at once apelike and fishlike and the face extruded out more snout or gill-like than nose.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • Both types lacked the gill-like slits he had noticed ....

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • His wings spread as wide as possible in that space, preventing the door from closing till he was gone, exposing and opening the gill-like slits below them.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • When he bent over to drink, Ivar glimpsed the gill-like antlibranchs, three on either side of his body.

    The Day Of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973

  • When he bent over to drink, Ivar glimpsed the gill-like antlibranchs, three on either side of his body.

    The Day of Their Return Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1973

  • There were, for example, no nostrils-only gill-like openings in the neck.

    Reach For Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

  • There were, for example, no nostrils-only gill-like openings in the neck.

    Reach for Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

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