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"Pleasant Point of Wild Swine," the name Torc is called after the wild boars, which in former years went "gerasening" over its slopes.
The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909
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And precisely as another young gentleman was doing in the shadow of the "Torc," Sir Victor did in the shadow of the "Eagle's
A Terrible Secret May Agnes Fleming 1860
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Green because Simon is a writer I've represented for 20 years whose work is often wonderful and to give a plug, I think the book Daemons Are Forever which comes out in paperback this week may be the best book he's ever written with the prior Man With The Golden Torc very close behind but whom I can't use as a good how to example.
angels UP demons The Brillig Blogger 2009
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Green because Simon is a writer I've represented for 20 years whose work is often wonderful and to give a plug, I think the book Daemons Are Forever which comes out in paperback this week may be the best book he's ever written with the prior Man With The Golden Torc very close behind but whom I can't use as a good how to example.
Archive 2009-05-01 The Brillig Blogger 2009
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Some of them reject the Torc and will die, in general, but Elizabeth and Marc know techniques that may help, and lead the Tanu to operancy, something the Firvulag already enjoy.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Adversary - Julian May Blue Tyson 2006
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The books should be read in order: The Many-Colored Land, the Golden Torc, the Non-Born King, and The Adversary.
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Torc comprehends, in all their glory of colour and contrast, the Middle and Lower Lakes beneath the mountains.
The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909
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A ridge of the Glena mountains shuts it out from the north, the many-peaked reeks guard the passes to the west, and to the south stands up Derrycunnihy -- "The Oak Wood of the Rabbits" -- between which and Torc is the fair bend of a Glen Coumagloun.
The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909
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The divisions of the Lough Lene are: -- The Upper Lake (extreme length, two-and-a-half miles; extreme breadth, half-a-mile); the Torc, or Middle
The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909
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Finn and the Fianna made a great hunting one time on the hill of Torc that is over Loch Lein and Feara Mor.
Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892
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