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  • Traditionally lamb is pounded in a mortar called a jorn until it's a paste.

    Mititei (Romanian Sausage) 2006

  • Traditionally lamb is pounded in a mortar called a jorn until it's a paste.

    Kibbeh 2006

  • Yet obviously, he was not. jorn could not see the lower part of his torso, since that was hidden behind the desk, but the bead atop that magnificent keg of a chest was disconcertingly small, and supported by a correspondingly scrawny neck.

    And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960

  • The familiar watched them go, her head weaving back and forth slightly. jorn was the last one; and with more courage than he had ever dreamed he possessed, he stopped on the sill to look around the cabin for the Grand Log.

    And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960

  • This still left jorn and Ailiss stuck firmly together, since he had been so unfortunate as to show talent in piloting and navigation, which was her own area of specialization.

    And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960

  • Everything had been rehearsed over and over long before this. jorn headed for the control barrel almost by instinct, Ailiss trotting by his side.

    And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960

  • Not that Ailiss was much more than an indifferent player of Castles; she could think as many moves ahead as jorn could when she wanted to, but she was given to impulses, and she had never bothered to study the classical openings and the Great Games; but with Kamblin dead, there was nobody else on board jorn cared to play with.

    And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960

  • "But could so few people do it?" jorn asked, afterward.

    And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960

  • Most of the burden of reducing this chaos-a natural outcome of the sudden take-off-to some desirable order, or rather, to a set of such orders, fell upon Kamblin and jorn; selecting the final order and imposing it was of course Ertak's function and duty.

    And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960

  • This made sense, but jorn was not prepared for the corollary decision: that all the lavelin~s sister ships were to be built to the same design and with only such minor modifications as the lavelin herself could safely withstand.

    And all the Stars a Stage Blish, James 1960

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