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  • Now he was here, although mightily changed in form and aspect, a many-headed, many-limbed, polyglot monster of enormous generative power.

    Margaret Drabble | Trespassing 2011

  • Still, I had to ask where the many-limbed celebration was born, and the answer was jarring.

    LaRon Landry's barbershop celebration 2010

  • Through the glass dark shadows moved—not the familiar shadows of men and women, but shapes too tall and thin, too oddly elongated or many-limbed to be human.

    Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010

  • Easily five times the size of any other demon on the ship, it had an armored body, many-limbed, each appendage ending in a spiked chitinous talon.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • We know almost nothing about the many-limbed thing in the water outside Moria.

    Mieville on Tolkein Tripp 2009

  • Easily five times the size of any other demon on the ship, it had an armored body, many-limbed, each appendage ending in a spiked chitinous talon.

    City of Ashes Cassandra Clare 2008

  • In Act 2, he seemed to stagger beneath an enormous pair of white wings, supported by three acolytes who waved their arms behind him so that he resembled a many-limbed Hindu god.

    The Only Thing That Flows Is the Fountain 2008

  • It may indeed be likened to an enormous many-limbed organism of an antediluvian time — partaking of the cephalopod in shape — lying lifeless, and covered with a thin green cloth, which hides its substance, while revealing its contour.

    A Changed Man 2006

  • Eventually I discovered "Law & Order," and it appears that I may end before Dick Wolf's many-limbed "L&O machine" does.

    Archive 2004-06-01 M-mv 2004

  • Eventually I discovered "Law & Order," and it appears that I may end before Dick Wolf's many-limbed "L&O machine" does.

    The soundtrack of our lives M-mv 2004

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