data.base updates - archeologist, hunter, shark

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and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say
when.
[ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ]
archeologist
Archeology is the search for fact, not truth. [...]
So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel,
and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried
treasure, and X never, ever, marks the spot.
[ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ]
archon
Archons are the predominant inhabitants of the heavens.
However unusual their appearance, they are not generally
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resent the intrusion of such beasts. They are capable of
using weapons and magic, and it is even rumored that the
Wizard of Yendor is a member of this species.
hunter
What of the hunting, hunter bold?
Brother, the watch was long and cold.
What of the quarry ye went to kill?
Brother, he crops in the jungle still.
Where is the power that made your pride?
Brother, it ebbs from my flank and side.
Where is the haste that ye hurry by?
Brother, I go to my lair to die.
[ The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling ]
ice devil
Ice devils are large semi-insectoid creatures, who are
equally at home in the fires of Hell and the cold of Limbo,
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seas - which deals with the monster Kung Kung trying to
seize power from Yao, the fourth emperor.
[ Spectrum Atlas van de Mythologie ]
shark
As the shark moved, its dark top reflected virtually no
light. The denticles on its skin muted the whoosh of its
movements as the shark rose, driven by the power of the
great tail sweeping from side to side, like a scythe.
The fish exploded upward.
Charles Bruder felt a slight vacuum tug in the motion of
the sea, noted it as a passing current, the pull of a wave,
the tickle of undertow. He could not have heard the faint
sucking rush of water not far beneath him. He couldn't
have seen or heard what was hurtling from the murk at
astonishing speed, jaws unhinging, widening, for the
enormous first bite. It was the classic attack
that no other creature in nature could make -- a bomb from
the depths.
[ Close to Shore, by Michael Capuzzo ]
shito
A Japanese stabbing knife.
shrieker