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They were magical figures and columns erected in public places, meant to protect the cities from afflictions.
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They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
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They are often portrayed as children with Williams syndrome ( which was not recognised as a medical condition but some specialist believe that people were enchanted with their character and appearance that they believed to be magical ), usually with fair hair.
They come from what is oldest in Coleridge's nature, his uninvited and irrepressible intuition, magical and rare, vivid beyond common sight of common things, sweet beyond sound of things heard.
They maintain that what constitutes child abuse is a matter of objective fact, and that some of the practices which mainstream anthropologists apologize for ( e. g., sacrificial rituals ) may result in psychosis, dissociation and magical thinking: particularly for the surviving children who had a sacrificed brother or sister by their parents.
They were connected by a belief in the manipulation of spiritual beings – especially demons – and magical practices.
They believe wizards are, as a genealogy book within the story phrases it, " Nature's Nobility "; other magical creatures and the non-magical are inferior and should be subjugated.
They then find a magical window in space leading from the professor's bathroom to a tropical island thousands of years in the past.
They make their way into the treasury, where they find a magical flying carpet, and escape the trembling palace, from which half the bricks were leaving, due to the arrival of Sourcery.
They feature the antics of Ms. Valerie Frizzle, and her class, who board a magical school bus which takes them on field trips to impossible locations such as the solar system, clouds, the past, and the human body.
They are switched by magical fortune cookies given to them by a meddling old Chinese woman on Thursday night after she overhears them arguing at her daughter's restaurant.
They share many characteristics, including long, consonant-heavy names, an impish appearance, and a magical weakness related to their own names.
They have some supernatural powers, and are capable of using magical spells too powerful for Gnome magic to break.
They believed that honey, the only sweetener widely available to them, was a gift of the deities and had magical and healing powers.
They do this by protecting Shen Gong Wu ( ancient artifacts that have great magical powers ) from villains that would use them to conquer the world.
They include a text that is known and has been translated, many texts that were claimed to exist by ancient authors, and a magical book that appears in an Egyptian work of fiction.
They were known to have certain magical powers and to be still in meditation for long periods of time.
They are highly magical, possessing a number of supernatural abilities, including shooting acid, creating bolts of pure energy and the like.
They closely resemble the Ur-viles ( having no eyes, super-sensitive smell and hearing, and magical abilities ), though they are smaller and lighter in color.
They brought him to Cambridge, where his writings on Austin Osman Spare and magical theory brought him into contact with the young chaos magic movement in the 1970s.
They do not possess stereotypically " vampiric " magical powers, such as changing into bats, but some of the stronger, older ones do have the power to fly.
They have had considerable influence on the development of occult and esoteric thought since their publication, as has his consolidation of the Enochian magical system of John Dee and Edward Kelley.
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