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  • And Pandora itself is the best and most fully-detailed rendering of an alien world ever seen, a forest reimagined as a coral reef, with drifting medusa-like seeds, barracuda-like wolves, shark-like tigers, hammerheaded buffalo. . .

    Avatar Paul McAuley 2009

  • And Pandora itself is the best and most fully-detailed rendering of an alien world ever seen, a forest reimagined as a coral reef, with drifting medusa-like seeds, barracuda-like wolves, shark-like tigers, hammerheaded buffalo. . .

    Archive 2009-12-01 Lou Anders 2009

  • A groom appeared running; a hammerheaded gray trotted beside him on a leading rein, its stirrups already swinging free.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • When the Captain returned a week later with an order for three hundred beeves to be delivered to Fort Benton by Christmas, Newt was in the little sapling corral they had built, working with a hammerheaded bay.

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

  • When the Captain returned a week later with an order for three hundred beeves to be delivered to Fort Benton by Christmas, Newt was in the little sapling corral they had built, working with a hammerheaded bay.

    Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

  • Squat hammerheaded robots laden with equipment and documents rolled beside us on the ramp.

    Up The Line Silverberg, Robert 1969

  • Why would anyone expect hammerheaded liberals like Obama, Reid, and Pelosi to actually consider drilling, in spite of what they said during an election?

    The Liberty Sphere 2009

  • More like a hammerheaded roan horse who stays thin by gargling two packs of Marlboros a day.

    SocraticGadfly 2009

  • Say Uncle comments on an ignorant hammerheaded numbskull who blasted one of Codrea's columns on guns.

    The Liberty Sphere 2009

  • His horror that America might discover in his reelection year that his causes for war had been lies, that the War Upon Iraq was counterproductive to the war against international terrorism, that bin Laden along with the bulk of al Qaeda leadership had escaped from being taken to ground in December of 2002 up at Tora Bora in the Afghan/Pakistani frontier, that they had escaped because of his hammerheaded intention to wage war on Iraq, the truth notwithstanding?

    Kerry Donor: Let's Give The Man Some Credit 2009

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