Sie zogen aus, bis an die Zähne bewaffnet, an die dreitausend, an die dreihundert, an die dreissig, schrecklich anzusehen in ihrem Kriegsschmucke.
Unten steckten sie in langen Stiefeln, oben in kühnen Hüten. Um ihre Unterleiber schlotterten oder strammten sich rauhe Jacken, deren Taschen reichlich mit Nikotinspargeln gespickt waren. An der Seite hing ein Ränzlein, strotzend von braunen, grünen, roten oder gelben Hülsen, enthaltend das scharfe Pulver, ferner eine Flasche, enthaltend das nicht minder scharfe Visierwasser, und diverse Pakete, worin die kurzgehackten sterblichen Überreste toter Schweine und Kühe waren.

(Hermann Löns, "Mümmelmann" {Kurzgeschichte}, 1909)

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The rumour spread through the city like wildfire (which had quite often spread through Ankh-Morpork since its citizens had learned the words 'fire insurance').

The dwarfs can turn lead into gold...

(Terry Pratchett, "The Truth", 2000)

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It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shear's house. Its eyes were closed. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog. The points of the fork must have gone all the way through the dog and into the ground because the fork had not fallen over. I decided that the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds in the dog and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died for some other reason, like cancer, for example, or a road accident. But I could not be certain about this.

(Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 2003)

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"Sometimes the Dead live on in your dreams."

(Peter Abrahams, Nerve Damage, 2007)

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Noise was one of the few things that moved freely inside a prison.

(James Swain, The Night Stalker, 2009)

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"Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. For one thing, he hated the summer holidays more than any other time of year. For another, he really wanted to do his homework, but was forced to do it in secret, in the dead of night. And he also happened to be a wizard."

(J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1999)

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Jennifer Sheridan stood in the door to my office as if she were Fay Wray and I was King Kong and a bunch of black guys in sagebrush tutus were going to tie her down so that I could have my way. It's a look I've seen before, on men as well as women."

(Robert Crais, Free Fall, 1993)

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