diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base index 7e26b315e..b7a4cb7ee 100644 --- a/dat/data.base +++ b/dat/data.base @@ -2363,11 +2363,12 @@ hell hound* dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog. [ The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ] +# note: nethack's helm of brilliance got changed to crystal helm of brilliance - A helm he set on his head, high of steel; thereon was many gemstone, - all encompassed with gold; it was Uther’s, the noble king’s; it was - named Goswhit, each other unlike. - [ Layamon's Brut, translated by Sir Frederic Madden, K.H. ] + A helm he set on his head, high of steel; thereon was many + gemstone, all encompassed with gold; it was Uther's, the noble + king's; it was named Goswhit, each other unlike. + [ Layamon's Brut, translated by Sir Frederic Madden, K.H. ] hermes Messenger and herald of the Olympians. Being required to do a great deal of travelling and speaking in public, he became @@ -2604,13 +2605,16 @@ hunter Where is the haste that ye hurry by? Brother, I go to my lair to die. [ The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling ] +# note: this might need to be reformatted; it's much wider than other entries +# but should be able to fit within a normal-width screen once nethack strips +# off the leading . ice box Ice, white ice, like a winding-sheet, sheathing each smoke-grimed wall; Ice on the stove-pipe, ice on the bed, ice gleaming over all; Sparkling ice on the dead man’s chest, glittering ice in his hair, Ice on his fingers, ice in his heart, ice in his glassy stare; Hard as a log and trussed like a frog, with his arms and legs outspread. - I gazed at the coffin I’d brought for him, and I gazed at the gruesome dead, + I gazed at the coffin I'd brought for him, and I gazed at the gruesome dead, And at last I spoke: "Bill liked his joke; but still, goldarn his eyes, A man had ought to consider his mates in the way he goes and dies." [ The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill, by Robert W. Service ] @@ -4190,7 +4194,7 @@ potion of sickness *venom Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, - took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took + took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar. [ We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson ] @@ -4608,7 +4612,7 @@ dwarven root "Wild Elves know them not; Grey-elves have not found them; the proud ones from over the Sea are too proud to delve," said Mim. - + "What is their name?" said Turin. Mim looked at him sidelong. "They have no name, save in the Dwarf-tongue, which we do not teach," he said. "And we not teach Men to find them, for Men @@ -4617,7 +4621,7 @@ dwarven root blundering in the wild. No more will you learn of me; but you may have enough of my bounty, as long as you speak fair and do not spy or steal." Then again he laughed in his throat. - + "They are of great worth." he said. "More than gold in the hungry winter, for they may be hoarded like the nuts of a squirrel, and already we were building our store from the @@ -4893,19 +4897,19 @@ shark ~white* *shield In his hands he took his shield, all glittering: no one ever - broke it with a blow or crushed it. And a wonder it was to see; - for its whole orb shimmered with enamel and white ivory and - electrum, and it glowed with shining gold; and there were zones - of cyanus drawn upon it. In the center was Fear worked in adamant, + broke it with a blow or crushed it. And a wonder it was to see; + for its whole orb shimmered with enamel and white ivory and + electrum, and it glowed with shining gold; and there were zones + of cyanus drawn upon it. In the center was Fear worked in adamant, unspeakable, staring backwards with eyes that glowed with fire. His mouth was full of teeth in a white row, fearful and daunting, and upon his grim brow hovered frightful Strife who arrays the throng of men: pitiless she, for she took away the mind and senses of poor wretches who made war against the son of Zeus. Their souls - passed beneath the earth and went down into the house of Hades; + passed beneath the earth and went down into the house of Hades; but their bones, when the skin is rotted about them, crumble away on the dark earth under parching Sirius. - [ Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica, + [ Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica, translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White ] shito A Japanese stabbing knife. @@ -5173,30 +5177,30 @@ stair* [ Ghostbusters, directed by Ivan Reitman, written by Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis ] *stalker - “You don’t understand,” he said, “who I am or what I am. I’ll show - you. By Heaven! I’ll show you.” Then he put his open palm over his - face and withdrew it. The centre of his face became a black - cavity. “Here,” he said. He stepped forward and handed Mrs. Hall + "You don't understand," he said, "who I am or what I am. I'll show + you. By Heaven! I'll show you." Then he put his open palm over + his face and withdrew it. The centre of his face became a black + cavity. "Here," he said. He stepped forward and handed Mrs. Hall something which she, staring at his metamorphosed face, accepted - automatically. Then, when she saw what it was, she screamed - loudly, dropped it, and staggered back. The nose—it was the - stranger’s nose! pink and shining—rolled on the floor. + automatically. Then, when she saw what it was, she screamed + loudly, dropped it, and staggered back. The nose--it was the + stranger's nose! pink and shining--rolled on the floor. - Then he removed his spectacles, and everyone in the bar gasped. He + Then he removed his spectacles, and everyone in the bar gasped. He took off his hat, and with a violent gesture tore at his whiskers - and bandages. For a moment they resisted him. A flash of horrible - anticipation passed through the bar. “Oh, my Gard!” said some one. + and bandages. For a moment they resisted him. A flash of horrible + anticipation passed through the bar. "Oh, my Gard!" said some one. Then off they came. - It was worse than anything. Mrs. Hall, standing open-mouthed and + It was worse than anything. Mrs. Hall, standing open-mouthed and horror-struck, shrieked at what she saw, and made for the door of - the house. Everyone began to move. They were prepared for scars, - disfigurements, tangible horrors, but nothing! The bandages and + the house. Everyone began to move. They were prepared for scars, + disfigurements, tangible horrors, but nothing! The bandages and false hair flew across the passage into the bar, making a - hobbledehoy jump to avoid them. Everyone tumbled on everyone else - down the steps. For the man who stood there shouting some + hobbledehoy jump to avoid them. Everyone tumbled on everyone else + down the steps. For the man who stood there shouting some incoherent explanation, was a solid gesticulating figure up to the - coat-collar of him, and then—nothingness, no visible thing at all! + coat-collar of him, and then--nothingness, no visible thing at all! [ The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells ] ~statue trap statue* @@ -5649,9 +5653,9 @@ unreconnoitered uruk*hai shield white-handed shield They were armed with short broad-bladed swords, not with the - curved scimitars usual with Orcs: and they had bows of yew, - in length and shape like the bows of Men. Upon their shields - they bore a strange device: a small white hand in the centre + curved scimitars usual with Orcs: and they had bows of yew, + in length and shape like the bows of Men. Upon their shields + they bore a strange device: a small white hand in the centre of a black field; on the front of their iron helms was set an S-rune, wrought of some white metal. [ The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]