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Examples
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Then, coming down off the ridge, Nicholas saw it: Yami Doki castle, the Kite in the Darkness, where dwelled Kyoki, the master of jaho.
The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990
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Soon he would see Kyoki; soon Shim Ninja would be just a memory, a bad dream dissipated by Kyoki's jaho.
The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990
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In the Room of All Shadows where once Akiko had knelt to meditate on her jaho lessons, the flickering flames of slender white tapers cast shadows as sharp as knife-blades into every corner of the chamber.
The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990
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She might have learned Kan-aku na ninjutsu with Nicholas's cousin Saigo, at the ryu in Kumamoto, but it was here in the Asama kogen that she had learned jaho, the magic of the miko.
The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990
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By her words he knew that she would not allow him to rise and walk away; that, whatever her personal feelings might be, she had been trained too well, her spirit in the end as weak as her first husband's, the spell of jaho taking her over.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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He had jaho, and she longed for that until it became her lover.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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"Nevertheless, that is where Akiko went; that is where she learned to mask her wa; where she learned jaho."
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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She opened her mouth to speak, she opened her arms to show him her intent, but at that moment the earth beneath them commenced to roll as if it had been transmuted into water by jaho beyond even her ken.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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As Akutagawa-san had said, the force of jaho was so corrosive to mind and spirit that one always ran the terrible risk of succumbing to it rather than, as one did with all martial arts, harnessing it to one's own needs.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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He had suspected, rightly, that only a shock of the first magnitude could deflect the jaho for long enough.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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