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  • Civilian and Millinery spawn.†   (source)
  • It's Nick, I can see him now; he's stepped off the path, onto the lawn, to breathe in the humid air which stinks of flowers, of pulpy growth, of pollen thrown into the wind in handfuls, like oyster spawn into the sea.†   (source)
  • To me, it was the war that spawned a thousand good last words.†   (source)
  • They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.†   (source)
  • Only dragon-spawn.†   (source)
  • Like spawning fish, the children came from everywhere to dive into the pile.†   (source)
  • I have a bunch of cool comic books — Superman, Batman, Spiderman, and Spawn.†   (source)
  • Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home.†   (source)
  • Noah spawned mutant pterodactyls.†   (source)
  • And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.†   (source)
  • As with most bad poets, I was unaware of this fact, secure in my arrogance that the very act of creating gave some worth to the worthless abortions I was spawning.†   (source)
  • That insult spawned another by the mourners: back in the yard of 124, they ate the food they brought and did not touch Sethe's, who did not touch theirs and forbade Denver to.†   (source)
  • The first thing it did was to spawn a whole Pandora's box of DNA viruses-smallpox, influenza, and so on.†   (source)
  • His company inspired more imitators, wielded more power over the American economy — and spawned a mascot even more famous than Mickey Mouse.†   (source)
  • She looked at him, her face now like a sky which might spawn tornadoes at any instant.†   (source)
  • He asked God's forgiveness for having spawned a monster.†   (source)
  • Not himself, and no spawn of his loins.†   (source)
  • That is, if the earth and the water went via frog spawn and tadpoles.†   (source)
  • This was after decades of inadequately financed and unsupervised treatment, which had spawned drug-resistant strains.†   (source)
  • She had spawned one son, Francis, who in Jean Louise's opinion looked and behaved like a horse, and who long ago left Maycomb for the glories of selling insurance in Birmingham.†   (source)
  • But then one day, one of her suitors (she had 104 of them) exclaimed that without question Adela must be the most ideal item yet spawned.†   (source)
  • Tell me he doesn't look like Dracula's spawn.†   (source)
  • You heard what Morzan's spawn said well as I did.†   (source)
  • I feel like I am not hearing anything new—just the same philosophy that spawned the factions, driving people to manipulate their genes instead of separating into virtue-based groups.†   (source)
  • With her honey-blond hair hanging over her shoulders like a shawl made of silk and her low-rise jeans mail-ordered from Fred Segal, she'd spawned an entourage of clones.†   (source)
  • The telephone call spawned a great deal of internal consternation during the next several days.†   (source)
  • About this time, the spawning salmon began to find their way up the little creek, much to the women's pleasure, and for a short while they were busy with the reddish fish meat.†   (source)
  • This thing actually spawned?†   (source)
  • The assassin, a man named Rachidi Minzele, was immediately shot and killed, taking with him the only definitive knowledge about the motives behind his deed, which spawned a confounding web of conspiracy theories.†   (source)
  • Of course, die for the monster spawn.†   (source)
  • That the First God spawns godlets left and right and his wife is a shrew who is always outwitted?†   (source)
  • The day was as hot as any they remembered from south Texas--the distances that had spawned yesterday's wind refused to yield even a breeze, and it seemed to the men that the last moisture in their bodies was pouring out as sweat.†   (source)
  • For every atmospheric blast, every glimpse we get of the bared force of nature, that weird peeled eyeball exploding over the desert—for every one of these he reckons a hundred plots go underground, to spawn and skein.†   (source)
  • The brethren of an evil ideology that spawned the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 claiming almost 3,000 innocent lives….†   (source)
  • The team's success would spawn other robotics teams at the university, including an all-women's robotics squad.†   (source)
  • There was this voodoo guy in the East Village who'd called me devil's spawn (which, I thought, was every bit as insulting to Dad as to me).†   (source)
  • It was the perfect spawning-ground for life in a mass society—civil or military.†   (source)
  • I could leave Mum Olga and her spawn.†   (source)
  • Besides, since I'm apparently the spawn of Satan, or possibly Dracula, depending on who you ask, it can never hurt to throw a little crazy out there just to drive the message home before the weekend.†   (source)
  • I must rest here a moment, even if all the orcs ever spawned are after us.†   (source)
  • 'They spawn their own kind, it's obvious, but where does it begin?' she asked.†   (source)
  • Along the ground suddenly, on both sides of the path, he saw dozens of new mushrooms the rain had spawned poking their nodular fingers up through the clammy earth like lifeless stalks of flesh, sprouting in such necrotic profusion everywhere he looked that they seemed to be proliferating right before his eyes.†   (source)
  • "Madame Wang," I said, "I would not bring my daughter so low as to match her to the spawn of a butcher."†   (source)
  • Only then are the onions added, handfuls of them, and now the sound is that of life being spawned in a primordial fire.†   (source)
  • The whole thing went down in infamy, spawning a live recorded CD and a series of festivals that continue to this day.†   (source)
  • Rachelle's kiss had spawned a whole new thread of possibility.†   (source)
  • To the rabbis who taught in the Jewish parochial schools, baseball was an evil waste of time, a spawn of the potentially assimilationist English portion of the yeshiva day.†   (source)
  • The densely rich grass fields and forests of oaks, maples and spruce trees were a spawning ground for pollens and molds for which the boys' constitutions had no defense.†   (source)
  • For you yourself told me that this witch consorted with the Devil's spawn who brought the Plague here!†   (source)
  • How rash, how mean of Annie to have spawned but one.†   (source)
  • Those who had spawned Brewster Place, countless twilights ago, now mandated that it was to be condemned.†   (source)
  • Then we took Stephen out onto Watermill Lane and down to Braddock's garden and we led him to the clay pond, where he pushed the spawn aside and reached down deep into the milky water and lifted out a dripping handful of pale clay.†   (source)
  • I realized how crushed Gazzy, Nudge, and Angel would be when they found out Anne was in this mess even deeper than the spawn of Satan, Jeb himself.†   (source)
  • What dost thou want, sickly spawn of moon and womb and mandrake?†   (source)
  • After all his crusading against their evil hybrid spawn?†   (source)
  • As we know, linguists believe that movies and television do not change people's language, but the Clueless film and the TV series it spawned may be exceptions.†   (source)
  • Or was it spawned some time between that moment and now?†   (source)
  • Sometimes they' teased, and sometimes they were serious-harrying one another with history, reason, and statistics, but as the war was not yet bitter, neither were they, and in October, after the declaration and after their arguments had spawned cool fire, they began to kiss.†   (source)
  • Or spawning salmon, or something.†   (source)
  • My rightful name is Bourne, sprung from Delta, spawned by Medusa!†   (source)
  • At spawning time in the spring these big fish, which sometimes weigh as much as forty pounds, invade the intricate network of narrow channels in boggy marshes along the lake shores.†   (source)
  • The figure of Fog Woman on the pole faces the ocean at the place the salmon enter the creek to spawn; Fog Woman's gift of the salmon made the people of Ketchikan rich.†   (source)
  • A run of humpback salmon was entering the river to spawn in the Clear-water.†   (source)
  • Salt doesn't grow or breed or spawn.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was Nat Turner who spawned the flood of memories, the almost feverish nostalgia for the South that overwhelmed me as I lay there in the blossoming morning light.†   (source)
  • Then the rain stopped falling and the trees dripped and I helped to spawn a school of secret dangers.†   (source)
  • Not all of the ills have been remedied, however, and a new brood has been spawned by the program itself.†   (source)
  • The fish won't have finished spawning, and if they have they'll be in very poorcondition.†   (source)
  • Then when the rice terraces were drained, there was the fish, spawned among the paddy, and what we could not eat, we dried and salted away.†   (source)
  • Dirt was in the walls and the floorboards, and triumphed beneath the sink where roaches spawned; was in the fine ridges of the pots and pans, scoured daily, burnt black on the bottom, hanging above the stove; was in the wall against which they hung, and revealed itself where the paint had cracked and leaned outward in stiff squares and fragments, the paper-thin underside webbed with black.†   (source)
  • Oh, she got a letter just like that and disappeared off to that-that school-and came home every vacation with her pockets full of frog spawn, turning teacups into rats.   (source)
    spawn = eggs
  • Work that spawned weapons of mass destruction?†   (source)
  • "The girl is Venus spawn," the lady Cyclops snarled.†   (source)
  • Some of the Spawn comics are pretty scary, but that's why I love them.†   (source)
  • There came a whispered imprecation from above Paul and a low voice: "Call me spawn of a lizard!"†   (source)
  • That turtle spawn will stop at nothing to satisfy himself.†   (source)
  • The Grail has spawned legends, wars, and lifelong quests.†   (source)
  • It cannot come too quickly for that child or for the one who spawned her!†   (source)
  • C.E.T. convened on a neutral island of Old Earth, spawning ground of the mother religions.†   (source)
  • It'll take more than this demon spawn to best us!†   (source)
  • Their twin sons—Fear and Panic—were spawned from both war and love.†   (source)
  • "We've supposedly spawned one long-term romance," Fisman told me.†   (source)
  • You two will make an excellent exhibit—the only demigod spawn of Poseidon in captivity.†   (source)
  • She is, and no spawn of shadows may touch her.†   (source)
  • "You spawn of the devil," she whispered.†   (source)
  • That spawn of Satan had laid me there, though I was yet quick as you are.†   (source)
  • Don't people in your country believe in that stuff—voodoo and Satan's spawn?†   (source)
  • Be you man or beast or some ill-spawned demon?†   (source)
  • I'm not stepping aside so that you can protect the vampire spawn at the tribe's expense.†   (source)
  • More kept appearing: dozens of demons and minor gods, each one the spawn of Night.†   (source)
  • Give me the blade of your own free will, Vanir-spawn.†   (source)
  • His voice spawned hollow echoes in the room.†   (source)
  • No doubt this was the work of Boreas or his spawn.†   (source)
  • Vanir-spawn have such an interesting scent.†   (source)
  • He cared no longer for Shagrat or Snaga or any other orc that was ever spawned.†   (source)
  • A projected journey spawns advisers in schools.†   (source)
  • The remnants of his vast web were there still, but the swarms of descen-dants he had spawned had been driven out by the Death Eaters, to fight for their cause.†   (source)
  • At noon the air shimmers like the space above a heated griddle, and the lake glares, its margin stinking faintly of dead fish and frog spawn.†   (source)
  • Apparently my mockingjay pin has spawned a new fashion sensation, because several people come up to show me their accessories.†   (source)
  • They left Zonko's with their money bags considerably lighter than they had been on entering, but their pockets bulging with Dungbombs, Hiccup Sweets, Frog Spawn Soap, and a Nose-Biting Teacup apiece.†   (source)
  • The room at the top of the house where Ron slept looked much as it had the last time that Harry had come to stay: the same posters of Ron's favorite Quidditch team, the Chudley Cannons, were whirling and waving on the walls and sloping ceiling, and the fish tank on the windowsill, which had previously held frog spawn, now contained one extremely large frog.†   (source)
  • Voldemort's expression remained impassive as he said, "Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.†   (source)
  • The gruesome picture was accompanied by Peter's voice: The Ancient Mysteries, Robert, have spawned many myths …. but that does not mean they themselves are fiction.†   (source)
  • Prior to my transfer, my OASIS avatar had never left Incipio, the planet at the center of Sector One where new avatars were spawned at the time of their creation.†   (source)
  • The enormous success of McDonald's spawned imitators not only in the fast food industry, but throughout America's retail economy.†   (source)
  • Whether through careful consideration spawned by books and spirited debate over coffee at two in the morning, or simply from a natural proclivity, we must all eventually adopt a fundamental framework, some reasonably coherent system of causes and effects that will help us make sense not simply of momentous events, but of all the little actions and interactions that constitute our daily lives—be they deliberate or spontaneous, inevitable or unforeseen.†   (source)
  • 'Harry Potter can do much better than the likes of you…… ' 'You deserve to be boiled in frog spawn…… ' Ouch!†   (source)
  • They didn't have the money to do that, not unless they took it from their dots program, and that would mean a return to the conditions that had spawned mdr here in the first place.†   (source)
  • That swan is the spawn of Satan.†   (source)
  • Not only was she the woman to whom Jesus had assigned the task of founding the Church, but she also had physical proof that the Church's newly proclaimed deity had spawned a mortal bloodline.†   (source)
  • They have turned one of the nation's best-paying manufacturing jobs into one of the lowest-paying, created a migrant industrial workforce of poor immigrants, tolerated high injury rates, and spawned rural ghettos in the American heartland.†   (source)
  • Spawn's my favorite.†   (source)
  • On two sides of the roof he put golden arches, lit by neon at night, that from a distance formed the letter M. The building effortlessly fused advertising with architecture and spawned one of the most famous corporate logos in the world.†   (source)
  • You spawn of a lizard!†   (source)
  • Actually, more like, let's all try to forget when we were at the mercy of sadistic spawns of Satan in a place that's a total, hellish abomination and ought to be firebombed.†   (source)
  • Vanir-spawn?†   (source)
  • So then he would simply move through this situation in a cold, calculating fashion, without lingering long enough on any moment to allow his nervous system time to react with those chemicals that spawned emotion.†   (source)
  • They spawn from bitter thoughts.†   (source)
  • Whenever Max was able to evade the gargantuan parent and race to the arena's opposite end, its spawn was already in swift pursuit.†   (source)
  • The illegal trade in crack cocaine, which had spawned a great deal of violence among gangs and drug dealers, began to decline.†   (source)
  • I told Falyse that I would not have our father's noble name bestowed upon — the ill-gotten spawn of some pig boy and a feeble-witted sow."†   (source)
  • Ten pounds, easy …. imagine all the ladders it had to climb to make its way back here from the ocean to spawn.†   (source)
  • Mauled by a bear, up north, during salmon spawning season—horrible accident It was more than a year ago now.†   (source)
  • What ills society spawns!†   (source)
  • I soared up to where my flock was waiting. they found out Anne was in this mess even deeper than the spawn of Satan, Jeb himself.†   (source)
  • Dressed in an abbah, a cape like robe, and the ever-present headpiece that spawned his nickname, a turban man is immediately distinguishable from the average Iranian man, who usually dresses Simply in a suit or sport coat and remains bareheaded.†   (source)
  • A normal Blackcliff student would beat me for touching him without permission—and this is no student, but an Aspirant and the Commandant's spawn.†   (source)
  • The spawn stopped moving entirely.†   (source)
  • They traveled without speaking and the brooding sorrow between them seemed to spawn and spread until it mingled with the million other sorrows that haunted this vast, unforgiving landscape.†   (source)
  • "Devil's child, Satan spawn-"†   (source)
  • Khaleesi, better a man should swallow scorpions than trust in the spawn of shadows, who dare not show their face beneath the sun.†   (source)
  • -It is done. drajl-spawn of maggots nar-a gender-neutral title of great respect Synopsis ofEragon , Book One of Inheritance Eragon-a fifteen-year-old farmboy-is shocked when a polished blue stone appears before him in the range of mountains known as the Spine.†   (source)
  • "She understands that you're gonna die and she doesn't care, s'long as she gets her mutant spawn out of the deal."†   (source)
  • No killer spawn.†   (source)
  • Surt called me Vanir-spawn.†   (source)
  • He had not expected to succeed with the traditional death-words, but he had to try, on the slight chance Galbatorix might have been careless or ignorant when he had placed wards upon the Lethrblaka and their spawn.†   (source)
  • You are Vanir-spawn!†   (source)
  • The well-worn verses spoke of the cycle of the seasons, of the warm earth that gave birth to a new crop each year, of the spring calving, of nesting robins and spawning fish, and of how it was the destiny of the young to replace the old.†   (source)
  • Salinas was surrounded and penetrated with swamps, with tule-filled ponds, and every pond spawned thousands of frogs.†   (source)
  • After order had been restored, and as we sat drinking (he bourbon, I that steadfast spirit of my nonage—Rheingold) and talking, largely about the gulf which separated this devil's spawn of an urban blight north of the Chesapeake and the South's Elysian meadows (in this realm my father could scarcely have been less prophetic, not having foreseen Atlanta), I was able more than once to reflect somberly on how my old man's imbroglio with Thomas McGuire had at least allowed me momentary…†   (source)
  • "Ay, and out of it to better things," said Thambi, with flint in his voice, "but for spawn like yours who have sold themselves cheaper than dirt."†   (source)
  • The village is the salmon who comes up the river to spawn, the seal who follows the salmon and bites off his head, the bluejay whose name is like the sound he makes—"Kwiss-kwiss.†   (source)
  • "And I think you must be a part of the bottomless dregs of this loathsome city that spawned you and all your foul-mouthed breed!" he declaimed, shifting like lightning into the timeless rhetorical mode of his ancestors.†   (source)
  • This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.†   (source)
  • When they came to the Clearwater where the swimmer spawned, they turned off the motor and paddled through deep quiet pools, overhung with thick brush, to the little falls at the end of the stream and pulled the canoe upon a small, rocky beach of a little island, and they saw they were not alone.†   (source)
  • I had thought there were many of them in the East and the Middle West, but California spawns them like herrings.†   (source)
  • As for the Professor—sucked like a mere larva into the burial mound of KL Sachsenhausen, dismal clone of the insensate leviathan of human affliction spawned years before at KL Dachau—his efforts to extricate himself were in vain.†   (source)
  • Remember this you patriots you fierce ones you spawners of hate you inventors of slogans.†   (source)
  • All that afternoon she directed toward me calculated words that spawned in my mind a horde of invisible demons bent upon exacting vengeance for what I had done.†   (source)
  • And Wang Lung would not willingly let him wed in the house, because of the spawn he would breed and one like him was enough.†   (source)
  • That's what she was telling Christmas in the jail today, when the old man, watching his chance, had slipped away from her and she followed him to town and found him on the street corner again, mad as a hatter and completely hoarse, preaching lynching, telling the people how he had grandfathered the devil's spawn and had kept it in trust for this day.†   (source)
  • Her spawn!†   (source)
  • The spawn of Attila must be crushed ("exterminated," said the Reverend Mr. Smallwood) by the sons of freedom.†   (source)
  • I have eaten Smooth creatures still living, with the strong salt taste of living things under sea; I have tasted The living lobster, the crab, the oyster, the whelk and the prawn; and they live and spawn in my bowels, and my bowels dis solve in the light of dawn.†   (source)
  • We went through Gary and Hammond that day, on a trailer from Flint, by docks and dumps of sulphur and coal, and flames seen by their heat, not light, in the space of noon air among the black, huge Pasiphae cows and other columnar animals, headless, rolling a rust of smoke and connected in an enormous statuary of hearths and mills--here and there an old boiler or a hill of cinders in the bulrush spawning-holes of frogs.†   (source)
  • He still thought that that was just a matter of where you were spawned and how; lucky or not lucky; and that the lucky ones would be even slower and lother than the unlucky to take any advantage of it or credit for it, feel that it gave them anything more than the luck; that they would feel if anything more tender toward the unlucky than the unlucky would ever need to feel toward them.†   (source)
  • …youth and curiosity itself exhumed the tales which he did not know he had heard and speculated about them, he was interested and would have liked to see the places once, but without envy or regret, because he just thought that some people were spawned in one place and some in another, some spawned rich (lucky, he may have called it: or maybe he called lucky, rich) and some not, and that (so he told Grandfather) the men themselves had little to do with the choosing and less of the…†   (source)
  • The soldier that had maltreated Tom obeyed promptly; and as the prince burst through the portal, half-smothered with royal wrath, the soldier fetched him a sounding box on the ear that sent him whirling to the roadway, and said— "Take that, thou beggar's spawn, for what thou got'st me from his Highness!"†   (source)
  • It was as if a motor-car had spawned.†   (source)
  • Caves appeared in every direction—it seemed their original spawning place—and the orifices were always the same size.†   (source)
  • They were sixteen in all: two runaway blue-jackets, a lanky deserter from a Yankee man-of-war, a couple of simple, blond Scandinavians, a mulatto of sorts, one bland Chinaman who cooked—and the rest of the nondescript spawn of the South Seas.†   (source)
  • But not only is the sea such a foe to man who is an alien to it, but it is also a fiend to its own off-spring; worse than the Persian host who murdered his own guests; sparing not the creatures which itself hath spawned.†   (source)
  • Restless still, and unsatisfied, he turned toward Africa, and for long years, amid the spawn of the slave-smugglers, sought a new heaven and a new earth.†   (source)
  • Give her back, spawn of the old wizard, or you shall climb Gallows Hill in your grandfather's footsteps!"†   (source)
  • Put the case that pretty nigh all the children he saw in his daily business life he had reason to look upon as so much spawn, to develop into the fish that were to come to his net,—to be prosecuted, defended, forsworn, made orphans, bedevilled somehow.†   (source)
  • Men in history, men in the world of to-day, are bugs, are spawn, and are called "the mass" and "the herd."†   (source)
  • We ran down and discovered the bay apparently swarming with great sturgeon, salmon, and trout, all making for the mouth of Jackal River, that they might ascend it and deposit their spawn amongst the stones.†   (source)
  • This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave.†   (source)
  • Now like the spawn of fish they float in the ocean.†   (source)
  • Who fathered this last devil's-spawn on ye?"†   (source)
  • No, row for your lives,
    invoke Brute Force, I tell you, Scylla's mother—
    she spawned her to scourge mankind,
    she can stop the monster's next attack!
    Then you will make the island of Thrinacia ….
    where herds of the Sungod's cattle graze, and fat sheep
    and seven herds of oxen, as many sheepflocks, rich and woolly,
    fifty head in each.†   (source)
  • …up in the cavern's bowels from her waist down
    she shoots out her heads, out of that terrifying pit,
    angling right from her nest, wildly sweeping the reefs
    for dolphins, dogfish or any bigger quarry she can drag
    from the thousands Amphitrite spawns in groaning seas.
    No mariners yet can boast they've raced their ship
    past Scylla's lair without some mortal blow—
    with each of her six heads she snatches up
    a man from the dark-prowed craft and whisks him off.
    The other crag is…†   (source)
  • VIRAG: (Agueshaken, profuse yellow spawn foaming over his bony epileptic lips) She sold lovephiltres, whitewax, orangeflower.†   (source)
  • …with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of a rebel, thou dykedropt, thou abortion thou, to shut up his drunken drool out of that like a curse of God ape, the good sir Leopold that had for his cognisance the flower of quiet, margerain gentle, advising also the time's occasion as…†   (source)
  • Some report a sea-maid spawned him; some, that he was begot between two stock-fishes.†   (source)
  • And God said, Let the waters generate Reptile with spawn abundant, living soul: And let fowl fly above the Earth, with wings Displayed on the open firmament of Heaven.†   (source)
  • I think, perchance, You've lost your mind through extravagance, And I've only allowed you to go on Like this to see what folly you might spawn.†   (source)
  • They would sometimes alight upon my victuals, and leave their loathsome excrement, or spawn behind, which to me was very visible, though not to the natives of that country, whose large optics were not so acute as mine, in viewing smaller objects.†   (source)
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