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  • She found the buffet, and found it in shambles, a feast raided by animals or Vikings, and made her way to the nearest bar, which was out of Riesling and was now offering only some kind of vodka-and-energy drink concoction.†   (source)
  • The Vikings believed that the inhabited world was an island under constant threat from outside dangers.†   (source)
  • He said he wanted to give their boat a "Viking funeral" out at sea.†   (source)
  • At first, Hazel thought they were wearing Viking helmets.†   (source)
  • Both men looked fondly down at the new Viking.†   (source)
  • "It's a minivan, not a Viking."†   (source)
  • She especially enjoyed reading about Paolina and Ake Viking.†   (source)
  • But if you hit your sales projections and collect a year-end bonus, you not only aren't worried about the $100 ticket but can also afford to buy that Viking range you've always wanted—and on which your toddler can now burn her own finger.†   (source)
  • Painter referred to the Lockheed Vikings, carrier-borne antisubmarine aircraft.†   (source)
  • An antisubmarine jet, an S-3 Viking, flew over, noting our position.†   (source)
  • Fair-skinned, blond, Nordic features, like a Viking princess.†   (source)
  • I suppose the Vikings thought that where one was good, three might be better.†   (source)
  • Looking at him for the first time, Alba saw that she had been cavorting with what looked like a total stranger, who not only had the hair of a Viking but also lacked the beard of Miguel and his small round schoolmaster's spectacles, and seemed much thinner.†   (source)
  • They're death traps, every one of them, containing the very bloodiest episodes from London's history—the Great Fire of 1666; the exceedingly lethal Viking Siege of 842; the pestilent height of the terrible Plague!†   (source)
  • Someone who looked like a Viking, with big broad shoulders.†   (source)
  • I always wanted to be a pirate, or a Viking.†   (source)
  • Cortez had come to his apartment in the afternoon with six books: Espionage in Sweden by Mikael Rosquist (Tempus, 1988); Säpo Chief 1962–1970 by P. G. Vinge (Wahlström Widstrand, 1988); Secret Forces by Jan Ottosson and Lars Magnusson (Tiden, 1991); Power Struggle for Säpo by Erik Magnusson (Corona, 1989); An Assignment by Carl Lidbom (Wahlström Widstrand, 1990); and—somewhat surprisingly—An Agent in Place by Thomas Whiteside (Viking, 1966), which dealt with the Wennerström affair.†   (source)
  • To the clean-cut soldiers, we probably looked like bikers or Vikings.†   (source)
  • We experienced and absorbed the same waves of invasions: Celts, Vikings, Normans -- all left their distinctive mark on our countries.†   (source)
  • But since we were in a seven-freaking-bedroom country chateau with a Sub-Zero fridge and Viking range at our disposal, it didn't cut it.†   (source)
  • Jason hosted a celebration party in his room, a timbered Viking hall.†   (source)
  • I've heard rumors that the Minnesota Vikings and Jacksonville Jaguars were also trying to trade up to take me.†   (source)
  • After Onassis's death, Jackie retreated from the public eye, eventually securing a job with Viking Press as a book editor in New York City.†   (source)
  • I imagine Viking warriors might look like that, if Vikings were clean-shaven and modernized.†   (source)
  • That's where the Vikings used to hide in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • It reminds me of a Viking ship.†   (source)
  • A bachelor's party is not a Viking invasion.†   (source)
  • I thought this was the Troy, not the Viking raiders.†   (source)
  • I had a book contract with Viking Press because Richard Seaver, who was a Viking editor, saw my short stories in Ken Rosen's anthology, The Man to Send Rain Clouds.†   (source)
  • So when this mattress flared up around the sailor, in his Viking's funeral: the stored, coded years of uselessness, early death, self-harrowing, the sure decay of hope, the set of all men who had slept on it, whatever their lives had been, would truly cease to be, forever, when the mattress burned.†   (source)
  • She was draped heavily in white, shaded with blue, like a Queen, and she stood braced and looking upward like the figurehead on a Viking ship.†   (source)
  • You probably learned that the old Vikings believed in gods which they called Aser.†   (source)
  • Then he segued into his training schedule for the Xtreme Viking.†   (source)
  • The first game was against the Minnesota Vikings, and it was supposed to be a cakewalk.†   (source)
  • The 49ers weren't as good as they had been the year before, and the Vikings were better.†   (source)
  • I promise well go somewhere for a blowout meal once the Viking is over.†   (source)
  • When there is thunder and lightning there is also rain, which was vital to the Viking farmers.†   (source)
  • He ate, drank, lived, and breathed the Xtreme Viking.†   (source)
  • The Vikings blitz with what appears to be their entire team and sack Montana.†   (source)
  • It's all the travel plans for the Xtreme Viking.†   (source)
  • He finds the old tape of the 1988 Vikings-49ers playoff game.†   (source)
  • Within a minute, the frame had assumed the characteristic shape of a Viking ship.†   (source)
  • The Vikings searched for the center of the world for years.†   (source)
  • I imagine the Viking ship we rode in the Winterlands—the tall sails, the oars.†   (source)
  • These Vikings today and their new-fangled technology ….†   (source)
  • I imagine Viking warriors might look like that, if Vikings were clean-shaven and modernized.†   (source)
  • Compared to Prusias's war galleons, the Viking ship looked no bigger than a dinghy.†   (source)
  • Though he looked nothing at all like a Viking, he was instantly and totally familiar.†   (source)
  • "I can transfer my F-18s to shore, and that'll give us room for twenty more Vikings.†   (source)
  • Not all of these Vikings were quite what you'd think of as Norsemen.†   (source)
  • Evidently some Vikings brought their wives, or at least their close personal friends.†   (source)
  • It was the sort of statement that only made sense in the loony world of the Vikings.†   (source)
  • "It's a deadly insult among big loutish Vikings like this guy."†   (source)
  • I'm with the wives and the girlfriends, and these Vikings aren't exactly discreet.†   (source)
  • Are there a lot of lairs of undead Vikings in Province-town?†   (source)
  • This area wasn't just visited by the Vikings.†   (source)
  • He really had staked everything on his crazy theory about Vikings in Boston.†   (source)
  • I think she faked about half the words, but the Vikings thought it was great.†   (source)
  • "Aye!" the dead Vikings cried in unison.†   (source)
  • It was in my head right next to the crazed voice yelling about Vikings.†   (source)
  • Vikings were notorious for appropriating from other cultures.†   (source)
  • Ever since, my family and the Vikings have been intertwined.†   (source)
  • "So it's a Viking tomb built before the Vikings got here," I said.†   (source)
  • Vikings fight in small groups, my friend.†   (source)
  • How many local years had passed without the Vikings ever learning to use fore and aft sails?†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure who that was, but the Vikings seemed impressed.†   (source)
  • "So it's a Viking tomb built before the Vikings got here," I said.†   (source)
  • He jerked the meat-laden knife toward one of the other Vikings to his left.†   (source)
  • In the elevator, the Viking easy-listening music did not help my mood.†   (source)
  • Like Eben Horsford, Longfellow believed the Vikings had explored Boston.†   (source)
  • There was a one-hundred-percent chance we'd die if we stayed to talk things over with the Vikings.†   (source)
  • And I don't know why I'd come up with Asian Vikings.†   (source)
  • Does that mean the Vikings—er, the Norse—discovered Boston?†   (source)
  • I raised my shield and sword like the nice instructors had demonstrated in Viking 101.†   (source)
  • Back in medieval times, some of the Vikings settled in Russia.†   (source)
  • Reaching any exit would involve getting past a hundred armed Vikings.†   (source)
  • It was built well over a thousand years ago, long before Viking explorers got to North America.†   (source)
  • As bizarre as it sounds, we're on our way to a war between Vikings and Aztecs.†   (source)
  • And this"—he patted his sword—"is Skofnung, the most famous blade ever wielded by a Viking!"†   (source)
  • Maybe as a child Randolph had thought, Someday, I want to study Vikings.†   (source)
  • ANOTHER VIKING pro tip: If Heimdall offers to drop you somewhere, say NO!†   (source)
  • I vaguely remembered something about the Vikings believing in nine different worlds.†   (source)
  • Back from the fire, behind a clothed table sat a dozen or so Vikings.†   (source)
  • I died during the Viking invasion of East Anglia, fought under the banner of Ivar the Boneless.†   (source)
  • But mostly the Vikings seemed like a fairly democratic bunch.†   (source)
  • The big Viking tombstone thing stood in the corner, its figure of a wolf still snarling at me.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to get wrapped up in some Viking Doomsday, but something told me it was too late.†   (source)
  • In our world there are no Vikings and no Loki.†   (source)
  • His armor was on the skimpy side: a short skirt and a breastplate that looked like a Viking bra.†   (source)
  • You figure those guys know we're not Vikings?†   (source)
  • He was a large man, even by Viking standards.†   (source)
  • Her white dress was embroidered with Viking runes around the collar and cuffs.†   (source)
  • The supplies moved out to the ships, all to the encouraging bellows of Viking petty officers.†   (source)
  • The best Viking swords were modeled after Damascus steel.†   (source)
  • Even by Viking standards his beard was wild, decorated with most of a cheese omelet.†   (source)
  • " I watched the big Viking closely as April's beautiful voice seemed to fill the harbor.†   (source)
  • Along one wall was a lit glass case full of Randolph's rusty Viking helmets and corroded ax blades.†   (source)
  • I was aboard a Viking ship on my way to bat le.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, it wasn't what I thought of as a Viking song.†   (source)
  • "Don't take this the wrong way, but that doesn't sound like a very Viking-ish name."†   (source)
  • Suddenly it was like a light went on in the Viking's head.†   (source)
  • The last thing I wanted to be was Magnus Chase, Viking Paramedic.†   (source)
  • I don't know any Viking songs!" she hissed.†   (source)
  • He gestured toward his display of Viking goodies.†   (source)
  • The ship came into clearer focus—a Viking longship larger than an aircraft carrier.†   (source)
  • The sun rose on a Viking fleet spread across miles of ocean.†   (source)
  • We're going to hop in a bunch of Viking longboats and go kick butt on some Aztecs?†   (source)
  • But nothing compared to your performance with that dumb Viking back there.†   (source)
  • The Viking ships were great for their time, but they weren't much good at sailing close to the wind.†   (source)
  • I'd have sung anything for the big Viking.†   (source)
  • One of the sons was the young Viking with the stab wound through both cheeks.†   (source)
  • The Viking took advantage of the distraction.†   (source)
  • Something no one had seen in the real world for centuries: a Viking fleet putting to sea.†   (source)
  • The Viking stared, not liking the answer.†   (source)
  • Numerous small craft plied back and forth, primitive even by Viking standards.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, out on the boats I saw Viking crews stripped to the waist, trouser legs rolled up.†   (source)
  • "Hello!" she yelled, waving at the Viking bowman.†   (source)
  • Another Viking said, "That's not the sun-worshipers.†   (source)
  • The last thing I saw as I fell was the Viking's crestfallen face.†   (source)
  • I'm asleep on the deck of a Viking longboat on my way to a war!†   (source)
  • But the suspicious look was back on the Viking's face.†   (source)
  • They carried the big black Viking off on a section of the table.†   (source)
  • But I'm not dumb enough to have a Viking firing up a panatela.†   (source)
  • None of which any real Viking would have.†   (source)
  • I had begun to think the Viking kings were at best primitive warriors and at worst drunken fools.†   (source)
  • The Vikings.†   (source)
  • They found the food and drinks table en route and took tapas and sausages and cups of red wine to a row of lemon trees behind the Viking Age.†   (source)
  • So I got to 451c Chapter Road, London NW2 5NG, and it took me 27 minutes and there was no one in when I pressed the button that said Flat C and the only interesting thing that happened on the way was 8 men dressed up in Viking costumes with helmets with horns on and they were shouting, but they weren't real Vikings because the Vikings lived nearly 2,000 years ago, and also I had to go for another wee and I went in the alleywaydown the side of a garage called Burdett Motors, which was…†   (source)
  • They were in the process of buying gasoline for the Viking funeral when a man on the docks got wind of the Warden's mad intentions.†   (source)
  • In Viking times, people also believed in a special group of fertility gods (such as Niord, Freyr, and Freyja).†   (source)
  • "I'm not coming to the Xtreme Viking."†   (source)
  • He watches the 49er defense try to stop the Vikings offense and prays they don't leave the 49er offense with their backs to their own goal line.†   (source)
  • Afterwards, Vikings coach Jerry Burns told reporters that "the way to stop [the 49ers] is to pressure the quarterback.†   (source)
  • I had sent him two text messages, to say I was really, really sorry, and that I hoped he would do really well in the Xtreme Viking.†   (source)
  • "But you won't come to the Viking."†   (source)
  • Finally it occurred to the Vikings coaches to try him as a right defensive end—that is, to make him a pass rusher.†   (source)
  • So …. so I can't come to the Viking."†   (source)
  • A year after their loss to the Vikings, the 49ers found themselves in exactly the same place: in the playoffs, facing the Minnesota Vikings.†   (source)
  • "I told her he rang to tell us he came in 157th in the Viking thing, and she couldn't have looked less interested."†   (source)
  • Anyway, the trick was old: the Vikings would see it for what it was and quickly move to exploit the hole left in the middle of the 49er line.†   (source)
  • He'd been drafted as an outside linebacker, but in the 4-3 defense, which the Vikings played, the outside linebacker wasn't chiefly a pass rusher.†   (source)
  • By the time the Xtreme Viking took place, there would be less than one week of my contract left to run.†   (source)
  • They give up a field goal: 3-0 Vikings.†   (source)
  • I don't care if you don't want to do the Viking, but I don't want you to go on this …. this holiday.†   (source)
  • He played pre-season games with the Vikings, the San Francisco 49ers, and the Indianapolis Colts, and just three regular season games, in 1987, with the 49ers.†   (source)
  • The Xtreme Viking.†   (source)
  • A few days later, Vikings center Kirk Lowdermilk moved to the Indianapolis Colts for $2 million a year, then groped for the adjective to describe his feelings.†   (source)
  • Like several of the coaches, Long was a Briarcrest parent, but was also a six five, 300-pound former left tackle at the University of Memphis, and a fifth-round draft pick of the Minnesota Vikings.†   (source)
  • This point was driven home to him the Saturday before the Vikings game, when Bill Walsh called the team into the auditorium for the pleasurable viewing of its past highlights.†   (source)
  • Ole Miss had just sent a pair of offensive linemen to the NFL: Chris Spencer, a first-round draft pick of the Seattle Sea-hawks, and Marcus Johnson, a second-round pick of the Minnesota Vikings.†   (source)
  • But the inability of his left tackle to handle the Vikings' right end was, in Walsh's view, a difference maker: it created fantastically disproportionate distortions in the game.†   (source)
  • The Vikings got the ball first.†   (source)
  • He'd received, additionally, four months of frantic private tutoring from both his head coach Hugh Freeze and his offensive line coach Tim Long, who had been drafted in 1985 by the Minnesota Vikings to play left tackle.†   (source)
  • In the most recent NFL draft—the draft of 2005—their center Chris Spencer was picked in the first round by the Seattle Seahawks, and one of their guards, Marcus Johnson, was taken in the second round by the Minnesota Vikings.†   (source)
  • You mean the Vikings.†   (source)
  • The kitchen had been remodeled only two years earlier; the SubZero refrigerator and Viking cooking range were still considered state of the art; no, he'd said, cooking for twenty or more wouldn't be a problem.†   (source)
  • There was the tall man, built like a Viking, straw hair in a ponytail, throwing the pills in the deep end, hundreds of them.†   (source)
  • When set upon the water and given the proper command, the miniature would expand into a Viking longship that could navigate and sail itself against wind, wave, and tide.†   (source)
  • "That's a Viking sword—very old.†   (source)
  • The old Viking lands.†   (source)
  • I sent off two copies of the manuscript: one to Richard Seaver at Viking Press, and the other to Mei-Mei Berssenbruge, the poet.†   (source)
  • It was a Viking longship, broad and flat across the middle, from which extended three steeply pointed prows and a tall mast with the largest sail John, Jack, and Charles had ever seen.†   (source)
  • From a small glass box, he removed what appeared to be a minute replica of a dragon-prowed Viking ship whose tiny oars and striped sail were rendered in exquisite detail.†   (source)
  • Rearden realized suddenly, for the first time, that Danneskjold's face was more than handsome, that it had the startling beauty of physical perfection-the hard, proud features, the scornful mouth of a Viking's statue-yet he had not been aware of it, almost as if the dead sternness of the face had forbidden the impertinence of an appraisal.†   (source)
  • Rivers of fire …. bloodthirsty Vikings …. pestilence so thick you can't breathe …. and mixed into all that, like some devilish bouillabaisse, bird knows how many wights and hollowgast!"†   (source)
  • Skin, Ormenheid And, as it had upon Rowan's shores, the toy extended through the water, undulating like a golden sea snake, expanding until it had become a full-sized vessel—a Viking ship with room enough for a raiding party.†   (source)
  • The Saratoga's Vikings were not working his area, despite his request, and most of the Orions were working farther out, closer to the Invincible.†   (source)
  • I had no intention of writing anything but short stories for Viking Press; I felt confident about the short story as a genre, but aside from being a voracious reader of novels from age ten, I neglected to take that course the English Department offered on The Novel.†   (source)
  • Then one day Vikings sacked the city and burned the tower to the ground, so the pigeons had to find another architect, whisper in his ear, and wait patiently for a new church tower to be built—this one even grander and taller than the first.†   (source)
  • The guy who traveled among the Vikings.†   (source)
  • The way the Vikings came here.†   (source)
  • I imagined thirteen zombie Vikings marching down Commercial Street, barging into the Wired Puppy Coffee Shop and demanding espresso drinks at sword point.†   (source)
  • He pulled a notepad and a pen from his belt, though what a Viking corpse was doing with school supplies I couldn't tell you.†   (source)
  • The old Viking's eyes turned misty.†   (source)
  • Tip: Don't ever play Viking croquet.†   (source)
  • To reach the Eastern Shores, we'll need to sail through the farthest branches of the World Tree, through the old Viking lands.†   (source)
  • The old stories say you traveled among humankind advising couples, blessing their offspring, and creating the various classes of Viking society?†   (source)
  • For all your Viking paradise needs.†   (source)
  • She had insisted on coming along for Dad's big adventure—his search for a missing Viking sword that would finally prove his theories.†   (source)
  • Once we got back to Valhalla—thanks to Thor's very overcrowded chariot—we were given a celebration feast that was wild even by Viking standards.†   (source)
  • I had no clue why that statue was in the middle of Boston, but I figured it couldn't be a coincidence that Uncle Randolph grew up to study Vikings.†   (source)
  • His black iron helmet had a chain mail curtain around the base—what we in the Viking business call an aventail—completely covering his neck and throat.†   (source)
  • Anyway"—she pulled a sleeping bag out of her backpack—"this guy Ibn Fadlan kept a journal about his time with the Vikings.†   (source)
  • The Most Awkward Viking Luau Ever†   (source)
  • "Wow," one of the Vikings commented.†   (source)
  • The Vikings will be most impressed.†   (source)
  • The front was carved with ornate Viking images—wolves, serpents, and runic inscriptions swirling around a central picture of a bearded man with a big sword.†   (source)
  • I recognized Jim Bowie, Crispus Attucks, and Ernie Pyle, all of whom had died bravely in combat, along with Helgi, the hotel manager, and some other ancient Viking dudes.†   (source)
  • "But the other thing is: we're Vikings.†   (source)
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