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