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; and Serpents
: The Fire of Serpents will rise again ; Five shall become the One.
* Rachel hiding Idols from her Father and Laocoon attacked by Serpents ; after Pietro da Cortona.
In 1576 he presented gratis another centre-piece — that for the ceiling of the great hall, representing the Plague of Serpents ; and in the following year he completed this ceiling with pictures of the Paschal Feast and Moses striking the Rock accepting whatever pittance the confraternity chose to pay.
* Alma-Lodaka-the Emerald Queen of Serpents ; daughter and wife of Ashen-Shugar ; mother of Draken-Korin ; nearly reincarnated in a body of Lady Clovis, also known as Jorna, wife of Nakor then of Macros, mother of Miranda by Macros.
* Kindo-Raber-Master of Serpents ; torn apart by the Dasati
Famous yuan-ti in the Forgotten Realms include Zstulkk Ssarmn of the ruthless trade and slaving consortium the Iron Ring ; his nephew Nhyris D ' Hothek, one time possessor of the Crown of Horns ; the Serpent Sibyl, whose body was used as Sseth's avatar during the Time of Troubles ; the ruling House Extaminos family of Hlondeth, and the very powerful Scion, Zelia, who was featured prominently in the trilogy, " House of Serpents.
In the end sequence, the Avatar is teleported into the void to face the Serpents, who thank him and affirm that order is restored ; then suddenly, the Guardian's giant hand appears and grabs the Avatar, abducting him to ( yet ) another world.
An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form ; however, despite the title, the e-edition includes the title story (" The Wall of Serpents ") only ; the other story (" The Green Magician ") is omitted.
series was published from 1983 to 1985 as four individual titles, being The Shamutanti Hills ; Khare: Cityport of Traps ; The Seven Serpents and The Crown of Kings.
What follows is an epic quest across the wilds of the Shamutanti Hills ; through the maze-like city Khare ; over the empty Baklands plains and encounters with the deadly Seven Serpents and a final hazardous journey to Mampang Fortress, where the adventurer finally confronts the Archmage.

; and Larger
Larger amounts of radioactive material were later isolated from coral debris of the atoll, which were delivered to the U. S. The separation of suspected new elements was carried out in the presence of a citric acid / ammonium buffer solution in a weakly acidic medium ( pH ≈ 3. 5 ), using ion exchange at elevated temperatures ; fewer than 200 atoms of einsteinium were recovered in the end.
Larger volumes are sometimes denoted in hectolitres ; otherwise in cubic metres or cubic kilometres.
A further special session ( 2005 World Summit ) was held in September 2005 to commemorate the UN's 60th anniversary ; it assessed progress on the Millennium Development Goals, and discussed Kofi Annan's In Larger Freedom proposals.
Larger commercial growers often ship long distances ; in the United States, most of them are located on the west coast ( Oregon, Washington state and California ).
Larger mammals include black-tailed deer, coyote, raccoon, skunk and invasive opossum ; with sightings of lynx, bobcat, black bear, cougar and elk not uncommon, especially in the northern parts of the county.
Larger cities may have more than one, but this term appears to come from around the 17th century ; in the stereotype, when a city grows large enough to house a sufficient mass of town drunks, the area where they congregate becomes known as Skid Row.
Larger cities often have city courts which hear traffic offenses and violations of city ordinances ; in some states, such as New York State, these courts also have broader jurisdictions as inferior jurisdiction courts and can handle small civil claims and misdemeanor casees.
Longer yachts are inherently faster than shorter ones ; therefore, in the interests of fairness, in the 1820s a “ primitive system of time allowance was introduced on the Solent .” Larger yachts were handicapped ; but owners with the biggest vessels had a problem with the allowance system, for they preferred that crossing the finish line first, much as in foot and horse races, should suffice to win the contest.
Larger handicaps are certainly possible ; but with such a great difference in strength, Black may be simply bewildered, and not understand how many of White's moves relate to his own.
Larger swine operations use slotted floors for waste removal, and deliver bulk feed into feeders in each pen ; feed is available ad libitum.
Larger numbers of computers means increased management complexity, as well as a more complex programming model and issues such as throughput and latency between nodes ; also, some applications do not lend themselves to a distributed computing model.
Larger islands with diverse ecological niches encouraged floral and faunal adaptive radiation, whereby multiple species evolved from a common ancestor, each species adapted to a different ecological niche ; the various species of Hawaiian honeycreepers ( Family Drepanididae ) are a classic example.
Larger forts may class as fortresses ; smaller ones formerly often bore the name of fortalices.
Larger sets are possible ; including 6 as a possible end number would result in 84 tiles.
; Larger Wetlands Aviary
Larger single phase motors have a second stator winding fed with out-of-phase current ; such currents may be created by feeding the winding through a capacitor or having it have different values of inductance and resistance from the main winding.
Larger VR environments, covering a greater internal volume in greater detail, are cost-prohibitive even though VR worlds are computed selectively for inhabitants, reducing redundancy and extraneous objects and places to the minimum details required to provide a convincing experience to those inhabitants ; for example, a mirror not being looked at would be reduced to a reflection value, with details being " filled in " as necessary if its owner were to turn their model-of-a-head towards it.
Larger, thicker shavings, called kezurikatsuo ( 削り鰹 ; けずりかつお ), are used to make the ubiquitous dashi stock.
Larger birds such as Common Wood Pigeon s are more often killed by the larger female Eurasian Sparrowhawks ; males usually hunt smaller prey.
( Larger number words like " million " are not part of the original English system ; they are scholarly creations based ultimately on Latin.
* Larger Than Live ( live album 2008 ; recorded 1990-not 1992 as incorrectly listed on sleeve )
Larger prey was approached in a more cautious manner ; a rapid strike was executed after which the snake would withdraw.
: Larger ; flanks lighter ( light grey, in females sometimes whitish )

; and ships
Air Force forward headquarters in Europe and in the Pacific, which control tactical fighters on ships and land bases ; ;
for navigation aids to give accurate bearings to ships and aircraft ; ;
a Navy of 817 active ships and 619,000 men ; ;
Sooner or later, all the gray Navy ships came in here ; ;
Trade was mostly with the Portuguese colony of Brazil ; Brazilian ships were the most numerous in the ports of Luanda and Benguela.
simply as any other town ; I won't launch any ships ; I shall maintain troops
Alfred's military reorganisation of Wessex consisted of three elements: the building of thirty fortified and garrisoned towns ( burhs ) along the rivers and Roman roads of Wessex ; the creation of a mobile ( horsed ) field force, consisting of his nobles and their warrior retainers, which was divided into two contingents, one of which was always in the field ; and the enhancement of Wessex's seapower through the addition of larger ships to the existing royal fleet.
By 454, the Delian League could be fairly characterized as an Athenian Empire ; at the start of the Peloponnesian War, only Chios and Lesbos were left to contribute ships, and these states were by now far too weak to secede without support.
Suspicious, the Blight discovers that one of the ships contains a data storage device in its cargo manifest ; assuming it contains information that could harm it, the Blight destroys the ship.
They dug a great canal to the sea, and alongside the bridges carved tunnels into the rings of rock so that ships could pass into the city around the mountain ; they carved docks from the rock walls of the moats.
The work contexts in which African-Americans sang songs comparable to shanties included: boat-rowing on rivers of the south-eastern U. S. and Caribbean ; the work of stokers or “ firemen ,” who cast wood into the furnaces of steamboats plying great American rivers ; and stevedoring on the U. S. eastern seaboard, the Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean — including " cotton-screwing ": the loading of ships with cotton in ports of the American South.
Aircraft design began specializing, primarily into two types: bombers, which carried explosive payloads to bomb land targets or ships ; and fighter-interceptors, which were used to either intercept incoming aircraft or to escort and protect bombers ( engagements between fighter aircraft were known as dog fights ).
The pirates ' flotilla now consisted of three ships ; Teach on Revenge, Teach's old sloop and Hornigold's Ranger.
Teach may have used other aliases ; on 30 November, the Monserrat Merchant encountered two ships and a sloop, commanded by a Captain Kentish and Captain Edwards ( the latter a known alias of Stede Bonnet ).
The remainder of the squadron was scattered ; the ships of the line sheltered at San Pietro Island off Sardinia, while the frigates were blown to the west and failed to return.
However, constant attacks by Bedouin partisans required each party to be escorted by heavily armed guards ; hence, up to a third of the fleet's sailors were away from their ships at any one time.
Unlike Zealous, these British ships suffered relatively severe damage in the engagement ; Goliath lost most of its rigging, suffered damage to all three masts and received over 60 casualties.
For ten minutes after the explosion there was no firing ; sailors from both sides were either too shocked by the blast or desperately extinguishing fires aboard their own ships to continue the fight.

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