diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base
index 410912710..4a964c905 100644
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+++ b/dat/data.base
@@ -424,9 +424,6 @@ barbarian
 	things.  He excelled them even in lithe economy of motion.
 	They were wolves, but he was a tiger.
 		[ Conan - The Warrior, by Robert E. Howard ]
-barbed devil
-	Barbed devils lack any real special abilities, though they
-	are quite difficult to kill.
 # takes "bat or bird" when specifying 'B'
 ~*combat
 ~*wombat
@@ -894,19 +891,19 @@ tiamat
 citrine*
 	A pale yellow variety of crystalline quartz resembling topaz.
 clay golem
-        It was a warm spring night when a fist knocked at the door so
-        hard that the hinges bent.
-        A man opened it and peered out into the street. There was
-        mist coming off the river and it was a cloudy night. He might
-        as well have tried to see through white velvet.
-        But he thought afterwards that there had been shapes out
-        there, just beyond the light spilling out into the road. A
-        lot of shapes, watching him carefully. He thought maybe
-        there'd been very faint points of light...
-        There was no mistaking the shape right in front of him,
-        though. It was big and dark red and looked like a child's
-        clay model of a man. Its eyes were two embers.
-                [ Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett ]
+	It was a warm spring night when a fist knocked at the door so
+	hard that the hinges bent.
+	A man opened it and peered out into the street. There was
+	mist coming off the river and it was a cloudy night. He might
+	as well have tried to see through white velvet.
+	But he thought afterwards that there had been shapes out
+	there, just beyond the light spilling out into the road. A
+	lot of shapes, watching him carefully. He thought maybe
+	there'd been very faint points of light...
+	There was no mistaking the shape right in front of him,
+	though. It was big and dark red and looked like a child's
+	clay model of a man. Its eyes were two embers.
+		[ Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett ]
 cleaver
 	Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed,
 	sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic