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  • And I'm saying to myself, maybe this could call some sort of X - ray-like damage, if you will.

    CNN Transcript May 19, 2009 2009

  • Beholding him radiant like the sun and endued with the splendour of a blazing fire, and fiercely and continually, O king, emitting his ray-like arrows, with bow incessantly drawn to a circle and scorching everything around like the sun himself, and consuming his foes, there was none in that army that could check him.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • No mouth; 1 or 2 flagella: amoeboid Family _Rhizomastigidæ_ with lobose or ray-like pseudopodia

    Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906

  • In every direction, 'white, mystic, wonderful', open out the ray-like courts, each pierced through by a single arrow of light that serves to illumine its lofty silence and dimly to reveal the monuments of the dead.

    Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • When Caius glanced later at the other's face, it appeared to him that he derived his impression from the deep, ray-like wrinkles that were like star-fish round the man's eyes; but if so, it must have been that something in the quality of the voice reflected the expression of the face, for they were not in such plight as would enable them to observe one another's faces much.

    The Mermaid A Love Tale Lily Dougall 1890

  • But now their attention was called to Mr Inglis, who had found a specimen of the brittle star-fish, which soon showed its right to the name by throwing off a couple of ray-like arms.

    Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Through the next window -- Tank No. 3 -- you may see more tube-worms, with ray-like, daisy heads, and soft muddy tubes.

    Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • The Pentagon released footage last week of as revealed in these pages last week, the US has used ray-like weapons in an actual theatre of war for the first time.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Wings transformed into ray-like fins glinting, refracted by salt water and sun burst.

    Comments for Ballardian Carlos Figueiredo 2009

  • One new image shows large patterns of ray-like lines extending southward across much of the planet surface from a young, newly-imaged crater.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2008

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