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Examples
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With a roar that echoed from the walls, the alzabo burst from this encircled band.
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Behind us was pandemonium, the sailors shouting and scuffling, the alzabo baying.
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I wrenched futilely at the manacles, then fumbled for the sliding link and shouted to Zak not to try to stop the alzabo without a weapon.
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The faces blurred and went out, like the flames of candles; only the eyes of the alzabo caught the fading light and shone like two red embers.
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The alzabo, certainly, and the blood bats and scorpions, perhaps; the snake called "yellow beard" and other poisonous snakes, and a few more.
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She turned aside as one turns from the mutterings and cracking bones when an alzabo savages a carcass, and Jolenta listened to nothing that did not concern herself.
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_ "The alzabo had come, and its eyes burned in the blackness that had entered through the doorway of the Examination Chamber.
Telofy commented on the word alzabo
In Gene Wolfe's New Sun novels: An animal with prominent eyes that eats humans inheriting (parts of) their personalities and can then speak with their voices.
October 1, 2008