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  • From the shadow-world thou hast brought them, and to the shadow-world thou must return them.

    Nam-Bok, the Unveracious 2010

  • Paddling, wheezing, resting, oblivious of the shadow-world of the white men, knowing only the reality of Tulagi Mountain cutting its crest-line blackly across the dim radiance of the star-sprinkled sky, the reality of the sea and of the canoe he so feebly urged across it, and the reality of his fading strength and of the death into which he would surely end, the ancient black man slowly made his shoreward way.

    CHAPTER 2 2010

  • From the shadow-world thou hast brought them, and to the shadow-world thou must return them.

    NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS 2010

  • With help on the inside, this was not difficult, for in that shadow-world of secret service identity was nebulous.

    Chapter 21: The Roaring Abysmal Beast 2010

  • These editors are so entrenched in their shadow-world that they can write lines like: "We like that she's so young with this Bad Disease ..." when evaluating the real-life people whose profiles I provided.

    Alison Stein Wellner: Why Magazines Suck 2009

  • The Great Happiness Space Documentary is by Jake Clennel and explores the shadow-world of establishments in Japan that cater to women, who can spend up to $10,000 in one night on champagne.

    Things to do in Japan eddvick 2007

  • Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • The privacy attending our dreams and imaginings does not impugn our right to draw on observable (in the robust sense of the term) phenomena to defend our right to employ mental predicates for a large number of cases, for “this secrecy is not the secrecy ascribed to the postulated episodes of the ghostly shadow-world

    Gilbert Ryle Tanney, Julia 2007

  • Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain.

    Just another day at Minitrue 2006

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