mermen

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For the mermen, and their own records, have taught us that it is their nature to rule, that they can live in peace only when all living things on this world are their slaves My colony?"

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  • But then they flew on, back out the window, and across the landscape to a great lake, where they dived down into the water and became two flying fish, touring a fabulous magical underwater setting where mermaids and mermen were just the beginning. —  Xone of Contention
  • It's filled with chats with dragons, The Island Where Dreams Come True, mermen, and a trip to the end of the world. —  Narnia Fans
  • These men of Kent were not mermen, able to live in and on the water indefinitely, but decidedly gallant fellows, rather more courtly than their neighbors, and more polished than the race which succeeded them. —  The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
  • And the mermen, with their traditions of slavery and dark beginnings in the experimental pens of the older race, continued to insist that across the sea--on the unknown western continent--Those Others still held onto the remnants of a degenerate civilization. —  Star Born
  • But unlike the mermen, he was not sea-born, nor equipped by nature with a secondary breathing apparatus to make him as free in the world of water as he was on land. —  Star Born
 

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