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An exhausted gunslinger awakes in the middle of the night to discover that the incoming tide has brought a horde of crawling, carnivo'rous creatures" "lobstrosities" -with it.
The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991
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The exhausted gunslinger is attacked by a horde of carnivorous "lobstrosities," and before he can escape them, he has been seriously wounded, losing the first two fingers of his right hand.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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The giant land-crabs have nothing on the lobstrosities, Doc.
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The scuttling lobstrosities of the ocean's sulpher vents, the eyeless daddy-long-legs of the hollow earth, a mother spider the colour of glass whose back teemed with young.
mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2004
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No more lobstrosities, no more mad trains, no more disquiet-ing-not to mention dangerous-trips to other worlds.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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Eddie had never seen such a look there before, not when Roland had been dying of the lobstrosities 'bites, not when Eddie had been pointing the gunslinger's own revolver at him, not even when the hideous Gasher had taken Jake pris-oner and disappeared into Lud with him.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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As he worked, he listened for the warbling of the thinny ... as the four of the m had listened for the god-drums; as he and Eddie had listened for the lobstrosities to begin asking their lawyerly questions
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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Although he did not say so, he was thinking of how it had ended on the beach, when she had blown three of the lumbering lobstrosities to hell before they could peel him and Eddie to the bone.
The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991
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He is also poisoned by the venom of the lobstrosities, and as the gunslinger resumes his journey north along the edge of the Western Sea, he is sickening ... perhaps dying.
The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991
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Half of his face was gone, lopped off by the claws of the lobstrosities.
The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991
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