, a black, shriveled, flying monstrosity with tentacles tipped with razor-sharp talons that can pierce a victim's skull and siphon out the brain

It must be that son who sat before her now, shriveled to half his size and half his senses.

Within their carapace is the shriveled corpse of a mighty Liche priest, though they appear to be dead, their corpse still emits their magical influence animating the construct.

Seeds must be ripe and fresh to plant ; dried or shriveled fruits are not viable.

He is first seen as Alice's soft toy, then becomes something that resembles a shriveled version of the John Tenniel illustration.

" The court found no proof that anyone at Buchenwald had been murdered for his tattooed skin, but it expressed no doubt that skin lampshades had been made and that human heads had been shriveled and preserved at the camp.

As the return trip progresses, the crew are at first skeptical that something has come aboard while they were on Mars, but soon they accept this as a fact: The body-count begins to rise as they discover the shriveled corpse of a colleague and another near death, both of which have been sucked almost dry of all moisture, including their bone marrow.

Acorus calamus is infertile and shows an abortive ovary with a shriveled appearance.

A shriveled human hand was found in the ruins during demolition work in 1786 and is now in St Peter's RC Church, Marlow.

As a result, Schmidt suffered the facial disfigurement attributed to the Dust, as his face took on the appearance of a living red skull ; his head is hairless and its skin has shriveled, clinging tightly to his actual skull, and has taken on a red discoloration.

" However, even though the lyrics ' " hopefulness shriveled into empty promise ", the performance of the song " is emotionally detached from Hopkins ' afflictions " and presents a " sunny soundtrack " for his depression.

Mrs. Breedlove is a bit of an outcast herself with her shriveled foot and Southern background.

Hisahide often appears as a shriveled and scheming old man in fiction.

Kulp was once described as television's homeliest girl, or as one reviewer put it, possessing the " face of a shriveled balloon, the figure of a string of spaghetti and the voice of a bullfrog in mating season.

When she returned to life in the big house she felt shriveled of all emotion save dedication to duty.

Nellie Harris wasn't old, she was ancient -- a tiny shriveled woman with a face like a tan prune.

As the people came back day after day and week after week, they began to notice the hair had shriveled and turned grey and had begun spreading from tree to tree.

An 1889 flood wiped out the railroad serving the community, however, and it shriveled.

In " True Vampires of History ", Donald Glut ( echoing Penrose ) says that as Erzsebet grew older, she practiced witchcraft and carried a parchment ( Penrose says the shriveled caul of a newborn child ) on which was inscribed an incantation for protection.

Morton was spared the fate of many Texas towns that shriveled and died after being by-passed by the railroad during the 1930s and 1940s.

Several stories by Robert E. Howard, such as the novella Skull-Face and the short story " Scarlet Tears ", feature undying sorcerers who retain a semblance of life through mystical means, their bodies reduced to shriveled husks with which they manage to maintain inhuman mobility and active thought.

By mid-2003, the venture capital industry had shriveled to about half its 2001 capacity.

When dried, jelly fungi become hard and shriveled ; when exposed to water, they return to their original form.

Irving maintained a personal animosity for Sereny, whom he calls " that shriveled Nazi hunter ", for successfully refuting his claims since the publication of his book Hitler's War.

Entire industries, such as textiles, shoes, and consumer electronics shriveled up as imports soared, especially from Japan and China.

Dr. Crusher reports that the other parasites, including that in Quinn, have shriveled up, unable to survive without the mother creature that was inside Remmick.

The shriveled hemorrhoid and band will fall off during normal bowel movements.

The show took a supernatural turn for a while with some cursed jewels, stolen from a religious icon, that turned those who'd touched them into shriveled mummies.

Finally, the staïfi music is born in Sétif and remains a unique style of its kind.

Most international versions of the show remain quite similar to each other in that their main format remains true to the original fly on the wall, observational style, with the emphasis being on human relationships.

The reconstruction that followed left very little historical remains and the post-war reconstruction period saw drastic renovation plans in highrise style, some of which were implemented.

The New Ferry Building, built in the Art Deco style to replace an earlier one, was renovated in 2008, but remains only partially accessible to the general public.

However, the compositional style employed in the opera, with few stand-alone arias, was criticized at the time and remains a barrier to the opera's complete acceptance into the standard repertoire.

Jerome's letters or epistles, both by the great variety of their subjects and by their qualities of style, form an important portion of his literary remains.

Her style and her skill remains a mystery as none of her work is extant.

Despite the similarity to its American counterpart in that the outcome of the matches remains predetermined, the phenomena are different in the form of the psychology and presentation of the sport ; it is treated as a full contact combat sport as it mixes hard hitting martial arts strikes with shoot style submission holds, while in the U. S. it is rather more regarded as an entertainment show.

style has also spread to other parts of the world, and remains popular with many skinheads.

" Sondheim agreed, and despite frequent dissonance and a highly chromatic style, his music remains resolutely tonal.

The first collectors to attempt to preserve not only the plot and characters of the tale, but also the style in which they were told, were the Brothers Grimm, collecting German fairy tales ; ironically, this meant although their first edition ( 1812 & 1815 ) remains a treasure for folklorists, they rewrote the tales in later editions to make them more acceptable, which ensured their sales and the later popularity of their work.

Within the area surrounded by the walls are the remains of three temples, all of the Doric order, and of an ancient style ; none of them were standing until the temple designated " Temple E " was re-erected in the 20th century, but the foundations of them all remain, together with numerous portions of columns and other architectural fragments, sufficient to enable one to restore the plan and design of all three without difficulty.

No other remains of buildings, beyond mere fragments and foundations, can be traced within the walls ; but the outlines of two large edifices, built of squared stones and in a massive style, are distinctly traceable outside the walls, near the northeast and northwest angles of the city, though their nature or purpose is unclear.

Those of these sculptures that belonged to the temples within the walls, present a peculiar and archaic style of art, and are universally recognized as among the earliest extant specimens of Greek sculpture Those, on the contrary, which have been found among the ruins of the temple on the opposite hill, are of a later and more advanced style, though still retaining considerable remains of the stiffness of the earliest art.

In the view of art historian Ellis Waterhouse, his portraiture " remains unsurpassed for sureness and economy of statement, penetration into character, and a combined richness and purity of style ".

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Due to the historic unavailability of large panes of glass, the multi-lit ( or " lattice window ") was the prevailing style of window until the beginning of the 20th century, and remains used today in traditional architecture.

The moats remained intact and formed an important feature of the Zocher plantsoen, an English style landscape park that remains largely intact today.

), to the use of foreign terms, it became the standard for most style guides that followed ; thus, the 1926 first edition remains in print despite the existence of the 1965 second edition, and the 1996 and 2004 printings of the third edition, which was mostly rewritten as a usage dictionary incorporating corpus linguistics data.

The German cemetery is an ossuary with the remains of 4, 200 German soldiers, built in the style of a medieval fortress.

Although it borrows some ingredients from a form of Black American musical resistance hip hop, its style still remains unique to the Brazil ( specifically in Rio and São Paulo ).

No pottery style or other remains of material culture serve to distinguish Quadi encampments from those of closely related groups.

Owing to the work's expansive linguistic experiments, stream of consciousness writing style, literary allusions, free dream associations, and its abandonment of the conventions of plot and character construction, Finnegans Wake remains largely unread by the general public.

Soca remains a vibrant style, often coopted by other musical genres and artists.