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On one 17th-century work, gold clouds part to reveal episodes from the 11th-century classic “The Tales of Genji,” while on another screen similar gold clouds frame scenes teeming with warriors battling monstrous creatures, courtiers setting forth in dragon-prowed ships and palaces erupting in celebration — all events taken from the action-packed 16th-century “Tale of Taishokan.”

An Unfolding of Beauty 2009

On one 17th-century work, gold clouds part to reveal episodes from the 11th-century classic "The Tales of Genji," while on another screen similar gold clouds frame scenes teeming with warriors battling monstrous creatures, courtiers setting forth in dragon-prowed ships and palaces erupting in celebration -- all events taken from the action-packed 16th-century "Tale of Taishokan."

An Unfolding of Beauty 2009

In fact, I can still recall a distinct tingle on seeing their slippery, low-prowed, and vaguely phallic shape for the first time at the Detroit Auto Show in 1982.

Knight Rider: Closet Narrative: Brett Berk Berk, Brett 2008

February 25, 2008 at 11:05 am wut maiks me prowed he is dat hees dunns so much eben unders the sircumbersomestances. wiis wonte knobe whats a grate guye and polelitickle geanieus he realby is.

talk to your cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

So they sat silent in their craft for fear, and did not loose the sheets throughout the black, hollow ship, nor lowered the sail of their dark-prowed vessel, but as they had set it first of all with oxhide ropes, so they kept sailing on; for a rushing south wind hurried on the swift ship from behind.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

I thought I entered the old palace; pacing silent galleries and council-chambers, where the old rulers of this mistress of the waters looked sternly out, in pictures, from the walls, and where her high-prowed galleys, still victorious on canvas, fought and conquered as of old.

Pictures from Italy 2007

This particular sheath is midway between a plain wooden knockabout one and the more formal and intricately-carved prowed-boat version.

Indonesian Steel Steve Perry 2007

That with some our prowed invisors how their ulstravoliance led them infroraids, striking down and landing alow, against our aerian insulation resistance, two boards that beached, ast one, wid-ness thane and tysk and hanry.

Finnegans Wake 2006

She herself could never have imagined the vision of fantastically prowed vessels ramming one another and tumbling in burning embraces into blood-red clouds.

Sun of Suns 2006

Aye, it had been a feasting of ravens, a red flood of slaughter, and I knew that no more would the dragon-prowed fleets sweep from the blue North with torch and destruction.

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006