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* [Footnote: _Pelian_ is an adjective formed from _Peleus_, the name of the father of Achilles.] * [Footnote: _Fore-right_ means _straight forward_.] * [Footnote: The Scamander was a famous river that flowed near the city of Troy.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander (Obscurus Books, 42 pages, 14 sickles 3 knuts): Paired with the release of Quidditch Through the Ages, there is the concise compendium of monsters and beasts.
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Tasmania 42.2 30 January 2009 Scamander -41.46 148.26
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Low weight was the key, he reckoned, and with a target of 1100kg it meant any thoughts of making the Scamander four-wheel drive had to be abandoned.
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The production Scamander will also have the facility to independently brake the driving wheels (via the ABS system).
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In fact, to get around all the latest emissions legislation – or the ‘stupidity of all this CO2 nonsense’ as Wheeler puts it – the Scamander will be classified as a commercial vehicle.
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Harry Metcalfe has a world exclusive drive in the Scamander, the astonishing new creation of ex-TVR boss Peter Wheeler, and finds it right up his street (and across his field, and through his pond …)
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The Trojan plain has wide arable fields, rough grasslands, smaller meadows, and orchards with scattered oaks sown naturally between them and, at the Scamander, the flash of river silver.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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* Luna ended up marrying (rather later than Harry and company) a fellow naturalist and grandson of the great Newt Scamander named Rolf.
Spoilery Pottery Initial Thoughts lili 2007
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Volumes of these examples may be compiled; but all might be reduced to this speech of a witty advocate, who, observing that his adversary was speaking of the Trojan war and of Scamander, interrupted him by saying,
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