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  • When he took wing, one of his pinfeathers brushed a figure in the Nephew row: Rubeus, Latin for “red,” the color of blood.

    Dark Oracle Alayna Williams 2010

  • The dragon turned to Rubeus and snorted, whipping the red man's clothes about his burly body for an instant.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Yvonne Rathbone 2009

  • Rubeus stuck out his chin and Fowl Feng thought Chalydrus was going to blast him right there, but instead he just held Rubeus' gaze for a moment and then turned to Sophie.

    Princess Dress Yvonne Rathbone 2009

  • For three-quarters of Radix, Kagan is honed and tempered for a final confrontation – but not with the Delph, with the AI it created to manage its affairs, Rubeus, and which has turned megalomaniacal.

    Reading Challenge #10 – Radix AA Attanasio « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2009

  • The dragon turned to Rubeus and snorted, whipping the red man's clothes about his burly body for an instant.

    At The Campfire Yvonne Rathbone 2009

  • Rubeus stuck out his chin and Fowl Feng thought Chalydrus was going to blast him right there, but instead he just held Rubeus' gaze for a moment and then turned to Sophie.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Yvonne Rathbone 2009

  • Such another excellent compound water I find in Rubeus de distill. sect.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Rubeus his [4268] compound water out of Savanarola; Pinetus his balm; Cardan's Pulvis Hyacinthi, with which, in his book de curis admirandis, he boasts that he had cured many melancholy persons in eight days, which [4269] Sckenkius puts amongst his observable medicines; Altomarus his syrup, with which [4270] he calls God so solemnly to witness, he hath in his kind done many excellent cures, and which

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Oswaldus Crollius, Euvonymus, Rubeus, and Matthiolus in the fourth book of his Epistles, Andreas a Blawen epist. ad

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Rubeus_ wooed and won his lily bride; already hath the tincture headed up royally in ruby and in purple, and sublimed, and gone through the entire circle of embryonic processes: quick! there lacks but the one element; in with it, and we are masters of the Life-Secret, of wealth, and power, and all else the world can bestow, -- ay, and we can give back to the world all it asks!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

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