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years by private owners and dealers too stupid to see what
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it was under the skin.
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[ The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett ]
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floating eye
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Floating eyes, not surprisingly, are large, floating eyeballs
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which drift about the dungeon. Though not dangerous in and
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of themselves, their power to paralyse those who gaze at
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their large eye in combat is widely feared. Many are the
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tales of those who struck a floating eye, were paralysed by
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its mystic powers, and then nibbled to death by some other
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creature that lurked around nearby.
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fire trap
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'Let him be for a while,' said Cohen. 'I reckon the fish
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disagreed with him.'
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'Don't see why,' said Truckle. 'I pulled him out before it'd
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hardly chewed him. And he must've dried out nicely in that
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corridor. You know, the one where the flames shot up out of
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the floor unexpectedly.'
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'I reckon our bard wasn't expecting flames to shoot out of
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the floor unexpectedly,' said Cohen.
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Truckle shrugged theatrically. '_Well_, if you're not going
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to expect unexpected flames, what's the point of going
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_anywhere_?'
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[ The Last Hero, by Terry Pratchett ]
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f* brand
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One of a pair of legendary swords that possess the powers
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of elemental flame and ice, and will grant these to whoever
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is fortunate enough to wield them.
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flesh golem
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With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected
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the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark
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@@ -1579,13 +1588,33 @@ flesh golem
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which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight
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black lips.
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[ Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ]
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flint*
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An emerald is as green as grass;
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A ruby red as blood;
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A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
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A flint lies in the mud.
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A diamond is a brilliant stone,
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To catch the world's desire;
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An opal holds a fiery spark;
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But a flint holds fire.
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[ Precious Stones, by Christina Giorgina Rossetti ]
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floating eye
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Floating eyes, not surprisingly, are large, floating eyeballs
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which drift about the dungeon. Though not dangerous in and
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of themselves, their power to paralyse those who gaze at
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their large eye in combat is widely feared. Many are the
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tales of those who struck a floating eye, were paralysed by
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its mystic powers, and then nibbled to death by some other
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creature that lurked around nearby.
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*flute
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With this thou canst do mighty deeds
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And change men's passions for thy needs:
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A man's despair with joy allay,
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Turn bachelors old to lovers gay.
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[ The Magic Flute, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ]
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fog cloud
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# also takes fog/vapor cloud
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fog* cloud
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The fog comes
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on little cat feet.
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@@ -1594,6 +1623,17 @@ fog cloud
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on silent haunches
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and then moves on.
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[ Fog, by Carl Sandburg ]
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# includes "food detection" and "detect food", which might not be the best
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*food*
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The little girl stood on tip-toe and picked one of the nicest
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and biggest lunch-boxes, and then she sat down upon the ground
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and eagerly opened it. Inside she found, nicely wrapped in
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white papers, a ham sandwich, a piece of sponge-cake, a pickle,
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a slice of new cheese and an apple. Each thing had a separate
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stem, and so had to be picked off the side of the box; but
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Dorothy found them all to be delicious, and she ate every bit
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of luncheon in the box before she had finished.
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[ Ozma of Oz, by L. Frank Baum ]
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fountain
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Rest! This little Fountain runs
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Thus for aye: -- It never stays
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@@ -1681,6 +1721,35 @@ fox
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escaped their suspicions.
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[ Dracula, by Bram Stoker ]
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# gas spore -- see *spore
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gehenn*
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*h?nnom
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hell
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"Place of Torment." The Valley of Hinnom, south-west of
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Jerusalem, where Solomon, king of Israel, built "a high place",
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or place of worship, for the gods Chemosh and Moloch. The
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valley came to be regarded as a place of abomination because
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some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch
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there. In a later period it was made a refuse dump and
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perpetual fires were maintained there to prevent pestilence.
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Thus, in the New Testament, Gehenna became synonymous with hell.
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[ Encyclopedia Mythica, ed. M.F. Lindemans ]
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gelatinous cube
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Despite its popularity (or perhaps because of it), the
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gelatinous cube is also widely known as one of the sillier
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role-playing monsters. It is something of a commentary on the
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ubiquity of treasure-laden dungeons in the Dungeons & Dragons
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universe, as the cube is a creature specifically adapted to a
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dungeon ecosystem. 10 feet to the side, it travels through
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standard 10-foot by 10-foot dungeon corridors, cleaning up
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debris and redistributing treasure by excreting indigestible
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metal items.
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[ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ]
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*gem
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gem or rock
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the
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same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the
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most real, the most brilliant.
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[ Salvador Dali ]
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geryon
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Geryon is an arch-devil sometimes called the Wild Beast,
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attacking with his claws and poison sting. His ranking in
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