diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base index b7a4cb7ee..3a546a1ae 100644 --- a/dat/data.base +++ b/dat/data.base @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ athen* Athene was the offspring of Zeus, and without a mother. She sprang forth from his head completely armed. Her favourite bird was the owl, and the plant sacred to her is the olive. - [ Bulfinch's Mythology, by Thomas Bulfinch ] + [ Bulfinch's Mythology, by Thomas Bulfinch ] axe battle?axe double?headed?axe @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ balrog was a blade like a stabbing tongue of fire; in its left it held a whip of many thongs. 'Ai, ai!' wailed Legolas. 'A Balrog! A Balrog is come!' - [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ] + [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ] baluchitherium titanothere Extinct rhinos include a variety of forms, the most @@ -870,7 +870,11 @@ gnom* cave*man These strange creatures were said to live in the caves and clefts of the mountains, myths associating them especially with the hills of Thessaly and the range of Erymanthos. - [ Mythology of all races, Vol. 1, pp. 270-271 ] + [ Mythology of all races, Vol. 1, pp. 270-271 ] +# [ capitalization of the title seems to be all over the place, +# including all lower case and conventional mixed case; +# it appears that Volume 1 (of 13) was written by +# William Sherwood Fox and edited by Louis Herbert Gray ] centipede I observed here, what I had often seen before, that certain districts abound in centipedes. Here they have light @@ -1082,16 +1086,16 @@ cornuthaum like the headgear worn by ladies of that time, except that the ladies were accustomed to have a bit of veil floating from the top of it. - [ The Once and Future King, by T.H. White ] + [ The Once and Future King, by T.H. White ] - "A wizard!" Dooley exclaimed, astounded. - "At your service, sirs," said the wizard. "How + "A wizard!" Dooley exclaimed, astounded. + "At your service, sirs," said the wizard. "How perceptive of you to notice. I suppose my hat rather gives me away. Something of a beacon, I don't doubt." His hat was pretty much that, tall and cone-shaped with stars and crescent moons all over it. All in all, it couldn't have been more wizardish. - [ The Elfin Ship, James P. Blaylock ] + [ The Elfin Ship, James P. Blaylock ] couatl A mythical feathered serpent. The couatl are very rare. coyote @@ -1105,10 +1109,10 @@ cram* exercise. It was made by the Lake-men for long journeys. [ The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien ] cream pie - Gregor stared at the pastry tray, and sighed. "I suppose + Gregor stared at the pastry tray, and sighed. "I suppose it would disturb the guards if I tried to shove a cream torte up your nose." - "Deeply. You should have done it when we were eight and + "Deeply. You should have done it when we were eight and twelve, you could have gotten away with it then. The cream pie of justice flies one way," Miles snickered. [ The Vor Game, by Lois McMaster Bujold ] @@ -1418,8 +1422,8 @@ doorway Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon ye who enter here. - [ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante - Alighieri, translated by H.F. Cary ] + [ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, + translated by H.F. Cary ] doppelganger "Then we can only give thanks that this is Antarctica, where there is not one, single, solitary, living thing for it to @@ -2050,8 +2054,8 @@ geryon With sting like scorpion's arm'd. Then thus my guide: "Now need our way must turn few steps apart, Far as to that ill beast, who couches there." - [ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante - Alighieri, translated by H.F. Cary ] + [ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, + translated by H.F. Cary ] *ghost valley of *dea* And now the souls of the dead who had gone below came swarming @@ -4846,25 +4850,25 @@ seth hippopotamus, and the pig. [ Encyclopedia Mythica, ed. M.F. Lindemans ] shad* - For the shades -- figures of jet black streaking acrossthe - white-knobbed ground -- were upon her. Strength was meaningless - against shades. They had no real substance. Only two things - mattered: moving quickly and not letting yourself be - frightened. Shades were dangerous, but so long as you had silver, - you could fight. [...] + For the shades--figures of jet black streaking across the + white-knobbed ground--were upon her. Strength was meaningless + against shades. They had no real substance. Only two things + mattered: moving quickly and not letting yourself be + frightened. Shades were dangerous, but so long as you had silver, + you could fight. [...] Her knife passed through the shade with a slight tugging feeling, creating a shower of bright white sparks that sprayed out of the - shade. The shade pulled back, its black tendrils writhing about + shade. The shade pulled back, its black tendrils writhing about one another. - Silence spun on the other. The pitch sky let her see only the - thing's eyes, a horrid green, as it reached for her. She lunged. + Silence spun on the other. The pitch sky let her see only the + thing's eyes, a horrid green, as it reached for her. She lunged. Its spectral hands were upon her, the icy cold of its fingers - gripping her arm below the elbow. She could feel it. Shade fingers - had substance; they could grab you, hold you back. Only silver - warded them away. Only with silver could you fight. + gripping her arm below the elbow. She could feel it. Shade + fingers had substance; they could grab you, hold you back. Only + silver warded them away. Only with silver could you fight. [ Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell, by Brandon Sanderson ] shaman karnov @@ -4897,15 +4901,15 @@ 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; + 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, + 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 + 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; but their bones, when the skin is rotted about them, crumble away on the dark earth under parching Sirius.