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- Martin Silenus stared at the small crate. l thought ergs were those forcefield critters that Templars use on their treeships.† (source)
- With a Fremen suit in good working order, you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day—even if you're caught in the Great Erg.† (source)
- While straining in this way, focusing every erg of energy on his eyes, his bowels suddenly opened up, and before he could realize what he knew, liquid stools were running down his legs.† (source)
- He estimated that it contained about 1,000 ergs of chemical energy.
- But Het Masteen must have been confident that the erg would help him with…† (source)
- We are in the central erg beyond the Harkonnen patrols.† (source)
- Our "semisentient" erg in the box there.† (source)
- Must I prove it by leaving every Fremen tribe in the erg without a leader?† (source)
- ERG: an extensive dune area, a sea of sand.† (source)
- And I am a Fremen born this day here in the Habbanya erg.† (source)
- …. there, and it is open sand down to the erg.† (source)
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- "Why are we taking the erg thing with us?" gasped Hoyt as they reached the base of the metal stairway leading to the station.† (source)
- The treeship Yggdrasill with its crew and complement of clones and semisentient erg drivers was dead.† (source)
- The erg could have escaped.† (source)
- The Consul remembered his first glimpse of the kilometer-long treeship as he closed for rendezvous, the treeship's details blurred by the redundant machine and erg-generated containment fields which surrounded it like a spherical mist, but its leafy bulk clearly ablaze with thousands of lights which shone softly through leaves and thin-walled environment pods, or along countless platforms, bridges, command decks, stairways, and bowers.† (source)
- "Each bush, each weed you see out there in the erg," she said, "how do you suppose it lives when we leave it?† (source)
- Erg?† (source)
- Water is poisonous to shai-hulud as the Fremen had long known from drowning the rare "stunted worm" of the Minor Erg to produce the awareness-spectrum narcotic they call Water of Life.† (source)
- He lifted his head and looked to the south, reminding himself that the maker summoned wild from the erg was an unknown quantity, and the one who summoned it was equally unknown to this test.† (source)
- An erg!† (source)
- Until he did this thing himself, even the great southlands — the area some twenty thumpers beyond the erg — were denied him unless he ordered a palanquin and rode like a Reverend Mother or one of the sick and wounded.† (source)
- The Church has accepted the Hegemony's ruling that… these creatures… ergs… are not sentient beings… and thus not candidates for salvation.† (source)
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