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Sometimes these lines, called hamon in Japanese, look like mountain ranges, cloudbanks or curling waves.
Latest News 2009
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Sometimes these lines, called hamon in Japanese, look like mountain ranges, cloudbanks or curling waves.
Latest News 2009
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He says "Mastin, al hap jembartil mok ent hamon Adonist, Adon most arpal shem hathoth bel am samisten porson-al bin fertest unepin tim al jakar" which I'm positive means nothing but it's more serious than life or death whether or not I know a lick of whatever language he was supposed to have spoken, which I know this isn't.
Piss drunk Nicholas Hranilovich 2010
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No hairline vertical cracks, invisible to the eye, ran through the hamon.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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You could see the play of hamon, sometimes feathery and insubstantial where the hard tempered steel of the edge met the softer embracing steel of the spine.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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DIY kung paano makinig sa mga satellite sa isang hamon sa radyo-set up.
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The smeary, milky line or smudge, really of the hamon ran along the whole edge.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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It lay, with its broad curvature, its obscured hamon where hard cutting metal met soft supporting metal, its mesh of scratches, burrs, blurs, spots of rusts, chips, and ware, on the bench before him.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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He would hire the best polisher in Japan to bring out every last wiggle of the hamon on the blade.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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It lay, with its broad curvature, its obscured hamon where hard cutting metal met soft supporting metal, its mesh of scratches, burrs, blurs, spots of rusts, chips, and ware, on the bench before him.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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