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  • I also had a hard time envisioning where the griffin's dessert was in relation to the mountains, and other land since it was supposedly clearly marked.

    "Lord of The Changing Winds: The Griffin Mage Book One" by Rachel Neumeier (Reviewed by Cindy Hannikman) Cindy 2010

  • On his BBC2 show In Search Of Perfection, Heston Blumenthal proved that he couldn't even make beans on toast without flying round the world six times, cooking a billion different beans in imperceptibly different ways, building a scale model of the CERN atom collider in his back garden out of shoes and using an oven heated by a swishing griffin's tail first.

    TV REVIEW: Big Chef Takes On Little Chef 2008

  • CNN's Brooke Anderson looks back on griffin's legacy.

    CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2007 2007

  • As the nitwit army advanced, Killer Yap, eyes glistening in the moonbeams and curly coat flowing like a regal griffin's mane, beckoned Dan Lazar to reload the snazzy, fully-automatic clue gun mounted in the back of the Reacher 760, Yap's state-of-the-art helicopter gunship.

    IOM 123-194 (last entry) -UPDATED with comments Miss Snark 2005

  • Letters mostly common and soft, but for that sharp "z", like a griffin's beak surrounded by feathers, or the moonbeam couched in diffuse light that shot through the tiny hole of a window above his bed.

    IOM 123-194 (last entry) -UPDATED with comments Miss Snark 2005

  • It was a protector against evil and people often wore talismans of a griffin's claw to protect them from demons.

    whyjakeisodd Diary Entry whyjakeisodd 2003

  • She leaped, her forehoofs aiming for the griffin's body.

    Faun & Games Anthony, Piers 1997

  • But the griffin's beak darted forward and caught his tail.

    Faun & Games Anthony, Piers 1997

  • A bit of blue crystal, a piece of pet­rified vallenwood, a lock from a griffin's mane, a dead lizard on a leather thong, a faded rose, a white ring with two red stones, a white chicken feather ...

    Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995

  • Foreseeing that one or more kender might end up as the griffin's breakfast, Tanis, with many expressions of gratitude, dispatched the beast back to Porthios.

    Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995

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