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  • They're ugly as Aztecs.†   (source)
  • What would an anthropologist say about the student body of Sterling High, based on the Wonder-bread sandwiches scarred by only one bite; the tub of Cherry Bomb lip gloss with a fingerprint still skimming the surface; the salt-and-pepper composition notebooks filled with study sheets on Aztec civilization and margin notes about the current one: I luv Zach S!†   (source)
  • The sun was beautiful on her blue-black hair and on her Aztec brow, and gathered in a dark, glinting pool at the hollow of her throat.†   (source)
  • I stared for a long time at the picture of the Aztec man carrying the passed-out woman, thinking about whatever Latin American tragedy it stood for.†   (source)
  • The Aztec shawl that he brought Amaranta, the remembrances he spoke of at lunch, the funny stories her told were simple leftovers from his humor of a different time.†   (source)
  • Then you go to the wilderness and become undone, lapsing into babble, eating mushroom caps that implode your brain, that make you preternaturally aware and afraid, turn you into an Aztec bird.†   (source)
  • Gabby wanted someplace relaxing, and they spent hours lying in the sun and eating well; he wanted a bit more adventure, so she learned to scuba dive and joined him on a day trip to see the nearby Aztec ruins.†   (source)
  • In a fuzzy sweater, pleated skirt, and Aztec-flashy earrings, she's wandering around the Brown campus with her husband-once her companion on the FBI's Most Wanted List and fellow Weather Underground leader, Billy Ayers.†   (source)
  • A tall, dark-skinned man with an angular Aztec face was gazing into a shop window full of weaponry; bracelets made of the same hard, shining material as the demon towers laddered his wrists.†   (source)
  • At a meeting in Monterrey between U. S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Mexican President Avila Camacho, Mexico committed El Escuadron Aereo de Pelea 201, the Aztec Eagles, to the allied war effort.†   (source)
  • What about the Aztecs?†   (source)
  • I look at civilizations that have collapsed: Rome, Greece, China, the Aztecs, the Mayas.†   (source)
  • That's how the Aztecs described Cortes and the conquistadors when they arrived at Tenochtitlan.†   (source)
  • I have this vague memory that Huitzilopoctli is some kind of Aztec god.†   (source)
  • But little Aztecs minor show was built around the heart and core of rodeo, men riding unbroken broncs and men roping untamed calves.†   (source)
  • Tonatiuh would keep running on his surplus blood from human sacrifices back in the Aztec days.†   (source)
  • Christian art never portrays God as the hawk sun god, or as an Aztec, or as anything weird.†   (source)
  • This time, I stood on the sidelines in Aztec apparel, performing solemn rituals.†   (source)
  • Rome versus the Visigoths, Ancient Egypt versus the Hyksos, Aztecs versus the Spaniards.†   (source)
  • "Let's discuss this question with a bit more depth: What is your impression of the Aztecs?"†   (source)
  • She was to be next year's Josephine Aztec.†   (source)
  • We'd like to propose you and Esme try out for Joe and Josephine Aztec.†   (source)
  • "Luis — our Joe Aztec — a fine example you turned out to be," she said.†   (source)
  • They were in the journalism club that put out the school newspaper, ironically called "The Aztec."†   (source)
  • "We plan to do an authentic Aztec dance, in authentic Aztec dress," Esme said.†   (source)
  • Sometimes they did tumbling acts — nothing whatsoever to do with being Aztec.†   (source)
  • Cesar had become like the mythical Axolotl, a salamander known to the Aztecs as a water dog.†   (source)
  • We chased the Aztecs as they ran for the walls of their city.†   (source)
  • The sun-worshipers are also called the Mexica, the blood-drinkers, the man-eaters, the Aztecs.†   (source)
  • This was Huitzilopoctli, blood-mad god of the Aztecs.†   (source)
  • The Aztecs fight with spears and swords of obsidian.†   (source)
  • As bizarre as it sounds, we're on our way to a war between Vikings and Aztecs.†   (source)
  • I swung back, left elbow twisting toward the Aztec's face.†   (source)
  • He swung the hammer into the head of an Aztec.†   (source)
  • He landed, stumbled, caught himself, and went barreling toward the Aztec line.†   (source)
  • I swung my sword down and cut into the Aztec's helmet.†   (source)
  • Okay, not much of one, but better than the life that involves getting killed by Aztecs.†   (source)
  • We're going to hop in a bunch of Viking longboats and go kick butt on some Aztecs?†   (source)
  • Tom wondered how to tell him what he had felt when he was riding the big bay at Aztec.†   (source)
  • Actually, he had been involved in the death of only six horses, counting the one at Aztec.†   (source)
  • Tom got in his car again and drove to Aztec.†   (source)
  • Don't you ever show up at another rodeo in Aztec!†   (source)
  • You can ride the horses they'll have at Aztec, too.†   (source)
  • Not with that Aztec bunch just faunching to bet!†   (source)
  • Me and Tom are going to Aztec and take their shirts.†   (source)
  • Things go right, we may go to the show in Aztec next month.†   (source)
  • Everyone understood that, from the early Egyptians, to the Celtic Druids, to the Chinese, to the Aztecs.†   (source)
  • The destruction of the Aztec.†   (source)
  • Little Aztec hearts.†   (source)
  • It's in The Conquest of Mexico — what's his name, Cortez — his Aztec mistress, that's what she did.†   (source)
  • And she vowed she wasn't giving it up, not even to Maniac, till she read everything from Aardvark to Aztec.†   (source)
  • Even so, at least they prevented the Aztecs from developing without bound, turning the Americas into a bloody, dark great empire.†   (source)
  • That was a cute one, because it was the Aztecs who represented civilization, while the Spaniards were the barbarian hordes.†   (source)
  • The back of the box is festooned with a limber pink intestine; on the front is an eyeless jade mosaic face, which those in charge of publicity have surely not realized is an Aztec burial mask.†   (source)
  • "But have you thought through the fact that the Aztecs were completely destroyed by the Western invaders?" the power company executive asked.†   (source)
  • But just before the lunch break, the loudspeakers made an announcement: At 1 p.m. there was to be a special school-wide assembly at Aztec Stadium.†   (source)
  • Finally:'The winners are — and the new Joe and Josephine Aztec mascots of Mark Keppel High School — Esmeralda Falcon and Luis Rod….†   (source)
  • The team also painted an Aztec warrior at the concession stand in Garvey Park — one of the places I broke into when I was younger.†   (source)
  • They made up the school teams, the cheerleading squads and most ironically, they were the school mascots: Joe and Josephine Aztec.†   (source)
  • We added some non-Aztec touches too.†   (source)
  • After I hung up the phone, I raced out of the house in the rain and danced: an Aztec two-step, boogie-woogie, a norterio — it didn't matter, I danced.†   (source)
  • I entered the gym area in Aztec dress; I had on a leather top, arm bands and loin cloth, with a jaguar-imaged headgear propped on my head and bells strapped around my ankles.†   (source)
  • When I became a sophomore, the spark which set it off occurred during a football game between Mark Keppel's Aztecs and a predominantly white school called Edgewood.†   (source)
  • But I don't know any Aztec dances.†   (source)
  • —the Aztec gods were alive and well in Houston and my second cousin was the granddaughter of Quetzalcoatl, I would totally believe them.†   (source)
  • The Aztecs mistook the Spaniards' armor for their skin, and the horses—the Aztecs had never seen horses—for the lower part of the soldiers' bodies.†   (source)
  • Chocolatl was a distinctly Aztec creation once reserved for nobility; King Moctezuma was said to have consumed fifty cups of this beverage a day.†   (source)
  • In the Aztec peasant's fiftieth year, he was led into the warm waters of Lake Texcoco and baptized before God as Juan Diego.†   (source)
  • One day an Aztec peasant-†   (source)
  • The first Aztecs began to die, howling, screaming, tugging at arrows that stuck in their shoulders, bellies, legs, groins, necks, eyes.†   (source)
  • We roared into the Aztec line.†   (source)
  • Why would there be Aztecs?†   (source)
  • The Aztec line broke and ran.†   (source)
  • Aztecs?†   (source)
  • Aztecs?†   (source)
  • It was a four-day ride, but Red wanted to be sure they were out of range of anyone who might have been at Aztec.†   (source)
  • He made the thirty miles to Aztec in less than an hour, parked in front of the hotel and went in to the desk.†   (source)
  • They made the rounds of the saloons, pool halls and cafes, and Red told the same story he had told in Aztec.†   (source)
  • Then, since nobody was following them, they slowed to a trot and Red began gloating over the way he had outsmarted the Aztec betting crowd.†   (source)
  • We're almost ready for Aztec," he said.†   (source)
  • Red Dillon had ridden at Aztec the year before and knew enough local people to rouse mild interest by saying he wasn't a contestant this time around.†   (source)
  • Aztec, as Red put it, was just a wide place in the road, but its rodeo drew ranch folk from the whole area, people eager after a long, hot summer to meet old friends, roister a bit and have fun.†   (source)
  • In New Mexico, over near Aztec.†   (source)
  • In bigger rodeos all the riders rode in all three go-rounds, their points were totaled and prizes; were awarded on each man's totals, but at Aztec, as in most small rodeos, each go-round was an elimination contest, leaving only the five top riders for the finals.†   (source)
  • Aztec.†   (source)
  • Aztec!†   (source)
  • Anthony Blanche's description was peculiarly apt; he had the Flyte face, carved by an Aztec.†   (source)
  • The Japanese gods drink sake, the Polynesian ave, the Aztec gods drink the blood of men and maids.†   (source)
  • The Aztec Sun Stone (carved stone, Aztec, Mexico, A.D. 1479) CHAPTER I — Emanations.†   (source)
  • She hunted them grimly; she faced them with wide-eyed admiration and spoke of her own insignificance, of her humility before achievement; she shrugged, tight-lipped and rancorous, whenever one of them did not seem to take sufficient account of her own views on life after death, the theory of relativity, Aztec architecture, birth control and the movies.†   (source)
  • Tribal or local heroes, such as the emperor Huang Ti, Moses, or the Aztec Tezcatlipoca, commit their boons to a single folk; universal heroes—Mohammed, Jesus, Gautama Buddha—bring a message for the entire world.†   (source)
  • He has the face as though an Aztec sculptor had attempted a portrait of Sebastian; he's a learned bigot, a ceremonious barbarian, a snow-bound lama….†   (source)
  • The Aztec Coatlicue, "She of the Serpent-woven Skirt," was approached by a god in the form of a ball of feathers.†   (source)
  • Tlazolteotl Giving Birth (carved aplite with garnet inclusions, Aztec, Mexico, late fifteenth—early sixteenth century A.D.).†   (source)
  • The Aztecs tell of the feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl, monarch of the ancient city of Tollan in the golden age of its prosperity.†   (source)
  • He and his people were overcome, at the close of their time, by the stronger magic of an invading race, the Aztecs.†   (source)
  • An Aztec prayer to be said at the deathbed warns the departed of the dangers along the way back to the skeleton god of the dead, Tzontemoc, "He of the Falling Hair."†   (source)
  • Coatlicue of the Serpent-woven Skirt, Earth Mother (carved stone, Aztec, Mexico, late fifteenth century A.D.). screen was placed, and the clam gave birth to a fine big baby boy.†   (source)
  • According to an Aztec version, each of the four elements—water, earth, air, and fire—terminates a period of the world: the eon of the waters ended in deluge, that of the earth with an earthquake, that of air with a wind, and the present eon will be destroyed by flame.†   (source)
  • The Aztec ancients and officials prepared the body for the funeral, and, when they had properly wrapped it, took a little water and poured it on the head, saying to the deceased: "This thou didst enjoy when thou wert living in the world."†   (source)
  • …can be heard, it is said, at a distance of three leagues; the _teponaztli_, that has two vibrating tongues of wood, and is beaten with sticks that are smeared with an elastic gum obtained from the milky juice of plants; the _yotl_-bells of the Aztecs, that are hung in clusters like grapes; and a huge cylindrical drum, covered with the skins of great serpents, like the one that Bernal Diaz saw when he went with Cortes into the Mexican temple, and of whose doleful sound he has left us so…†   (source)
  • /Coyote/ came from the Mexican dialect of Spanish; its first parent was the Aztec /coyotl/.†   (source)
  • Crosslegged under an umbrel umbershoot he thrones an Aztec logos, functioning on astral levels, their oversoul, mahamahatma.†   (source)
  • In those waxworks in Henry street I myself saw some Aztecs, as they are called, sitting bowlegged, they couldn't straighten their legs if you paid them because the muscles here, you see, he proceeded, indicating on his companion the brief outline of the sinews or whatever you like to call them behind the right knee, were utterly powerless from sitting that way so long cramped up, being adored as gods.†   (source)
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