some data.base bits
Take some of the entries from the github pull request. resolves #35
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@@ -534,6 +534,7 @@ ooze
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kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
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[ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]
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blue jelly
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spotted jelly
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I'd planned how to prevent the lock from sealing behind me; it
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required a temporary sacrifice, not cleverness. I used the door
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itself to help me cut off a portion of my body, after shunting all
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@@ -892,6 +893,20 @@ tiamat
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extremely vain.
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citrine*
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A pale yellow variety of crystalline quartz resembling topaz.
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clay golem
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It was a warm spring night when a fist knocked at the door so
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hard that the hinges bent.
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A man opened it and peered out into the street. There was
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mist coming off the river and it was a cloudy night. He might
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as well have tried to see through white velvet.
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But he thought afterwards that there had been shapes out
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there, just beyond the light spilling out into the road. A
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lot of shapes, watching him carefully. He thought maybe
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there'd been very faint points of light...
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There was no mistaking the shape right in front of him,
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though. It was big and dark red and looked like a child's
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clay model of a man. Its eyes were two embers.
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[ Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett ]
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cleaver
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Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed,
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sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic
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@@ -1994,6 +2009,7 @@ gold golem
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~gold golem
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~straw golem
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~wood golem
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~clay golem
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*golem
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"The original story harks back, so they say, to the sixteenth
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century. Using long-lost formulas from the Kabbala, a rabbi is
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@@ -2305,7 +2321,8 @@ cornucopia
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And scatters corn and wine, and fruits and flowers.
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[ Os Lusiadas, by Luis Vaz de Camoes ]
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horned devil
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Horned devils lack any real special abilities, though they
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barbed devil
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These devils lack any real special abilities, though they
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are quite difficult to kill.
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~horsem*
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*horse
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@@ -4001,6 +4018,7 @@ pony
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continent and to and from our own world. The precise manner
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of their working is a Management secret.
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[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
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trident
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poseido*n
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Poseido(o)n, lord of the seas and father of rivers and
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fountains, was the son of Chronos and Rhea, brother of Zeus,
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@@ -5152,6 +5170,7 @@ tripe ration
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often, alas, because the heat has not been kept low enough,
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it has the consistency of wet shoe leather.
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[ Joy of Cooking, by I Rombauer and M Becker ]
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~water troll
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*troll
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The troll shambled closer. He was perhaps eight feet tall,
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perhaps more. His forward stoop, with arms dangling past
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@@ -5420,6 +5439,21 @@ water demon
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and drink, I will enjoy eating you, the biggest monkey, most
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of all!" He grinned, and saliva dripped down his hairy chin.
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[ Buddhist Tales for Young and Old, Vol. 1 ]
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water troll
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It wasn't that the troll was _horrifying_. Instead of the
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rotting, betentacled monstrosity he had been expecting
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Rincewind found himself looking at a rather squat but not
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particularly ugly old man who would quite easily have passed
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for normal on any city street, always provided that other
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people on the street were used to seeing old men who were
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apparently composed of water and very little else. It was as
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if the ocean had decided to create life without going through
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all that tedious business of evolution, and had simply formed
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a part of itself into a biped and sent it walking squishily up
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the beach. The troll was a pleasant translucent blue color.
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As Rincewind stared a small shoal of silver fish flashed
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across its chest.
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[ The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett ]
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weapon
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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[ The Vor Game, by Lois McMaster Bujold ]
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@@ -5428,17 +5462,17 @@ web
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When first we practise to deceive!
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[ Marmion, by Sir Walter Scott ]
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whistle
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There were legends both on the front and on the back of the
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There were legends both on the front and on the back of the
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whistle. The one read thus:
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FLA FUR BIS FLE The other: QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT
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'I ought to be able to make it out,' he thought;
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'but I suppose I am a little rusty in my Latin.
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When I come to think of it, I don't believe I even
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know the word for a whistle. The long one does seem
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simple enough. It ought to mean, "Who is this who is coming?"
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FLA FUR BIS FLE The other: QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT
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'I ought to be able to make it out,' he thought;
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'but I suppose I am a little rusty in my Latin.
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When I come to think of it, I don't believe I even
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know the word for a whistle. The long one does seem
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simple enough. It ought to mean, "Who is this who is coming?"
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Well, the best way to find out is evidently to whistle
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Well, the best way to find out is evidently to whistle
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for him.'
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[Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by Montague Rhodes James
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