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  • Finally a small ding was heard, and the PATSY 2000 coughed up a huge, metallic behemoth.†   (source)
  • The flight engineer latched the door and handed out wads of cotton to stuff in our ears, and the behemoth chopper lumbered into the air with a head-splitting roar.†   (source)
  • After all, it was in the corner of the autoclave room, right next to that stainless-steel behemoth, that my mother kept a sanctuary for herself during the seven years she spent at Missing before our rude arrival.†   (source)
  • SS-100-X is a behemoth of a vehicle, specially modified for use by the president.†   (source)
  • She took a few steps back to stand behind him, her eyes on the Behemoth.†   (source)
  • It was hard to mistake a blond behemoth built like an armor-piercing robot.†   (source)
  • They often built the tanks right on site, the way you make a barrel, grooved staves bound with metal hoops, and of course the twin towers in the distance, a model of behemoth mass production, units that roll identically off the line and end up in your supermarket, stamped with the day's prices.†   (source)
  • The triarch's elephant was a grey-skinned behemoth clad in elaborate enameled armor that clattered softly as he moved, the castle on its back so tall that it scraped the top of the ornamental stone arch he was passing underneath.†   (source)
  • But along his remarkable career path, he founded half a dozen companies that would eventually, after his departure, grow into industry behemoths like Fairchild Semiconductors, Teledyne, and Intel.†   (source)
  • The machine would turn into an unwieldy behemoth.†   (source)
  • Or was that back when a size fourteen was really an eight—which meant that comparatively, I was a behemoth compared to your average 1940s starlet?†   (source)
  • The others climbed into the sedan, and as a fire engine careened up the street, the sedan curved out of its parking place and sped past the red behemoth racing in the opposite direction.†   (source)
  • Workers toiled day and night in behemoth drones that swallowed their souls and their children; not necessarily like Arturo, but in the way they absorbed each generation without offering any hope from their monotonous cycle of birth, grueling labor and then death.†   (source)
  • At that time the drowsing black behemoth, although beginning to stir, was still not regarded as much of a Northern problem.†   (source)
  • professional behemoth linesmen
  • Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox.   (source)
  • I was a behemoth compared to your average 2008 starlet, too.†   (source)
  • The Behemoth demon's mucus had coated Jahoel's blade, dulling its flame.†   (source)
  • The Behemoth was still making the same chittering noise.†   (source)
  • It's a Behemoth demon," he said, staring at the slithering thing in front of them.†   (source)
  • The Behemoth reared back again, ready to strike.†   (source)
  • It sank into the Behemoth's back with a sound like overripe fruit being stepped on.†   (source)
  • Santi was a behemoth in the art world, and being known solely by one's first name was a level of fame achieved only by an elite few ....people like Napoleon, Galileo, and Jesus ....and, of course, the demigods Langdon now heard blaring from Harvard dormitories-Sting, Madonna, Jewel, and the artist formerly known as Prince, who had changed his name to the symbol , causing Langdon to dub him "The Tau Cross With Intersecting Hermaphroditic Ankh.†   (source)
  • Papers and notebooks mounded over his desk, but the walls were unadorned except for a framed certificate and a photograph of a youthful Glen in his Mellen High wrestler's uniform, pinning some unknown behemoth in a fetal curl.†   (source)
  • Clary backed away as the Behemoth demon thrashed, spraying stinging ichor, a loud, ululating wail coming from its open throat.†   (source)
  • He strode across the room, past the huddled Dark Shadowhunters, past the ring of runes, to where the Behemoth demon lay dead in its ichor.†   (source)
  • There had been an elephant in the menagerie at Lannisport when he had been a boy, but she had died when he was seven ...and this great grey behemoth looked to be twice her size.†   (source)
  • A Behemoth demon.†   (source)
  • The Behemoth shuddered and thrashed in a desperate effort to reform and heal its injuries, but the wolf wasn't giving it a chance.†   (source)
  • It sailed by her, claws outstretched, body arced—and struck its target, the Behemoth, knocking it flat to the ground before tearing at it with bared teeth.†   (source)
  • Its claws sunk deeply into demon flesh, the wolf tore chunks of jellylike flesh out of the Behemoth's body with its teeth, ignoring the spurting green fluid that fountained around it.†   (source)
  • The Behemoth began a last, desperate series of convulsive spasms, its serrated jaws clacking together as it thrashed—and then it was gone, only a viscous puddle of green fluid steaming on the cobblestones where it had been.†   (source)
  • "It's a product of the war, son," said this engineer who had helped fabricate such naval behemoths as the aircraft carriers Yorktown and Enterprise, "everything in this country has become richer and richer.†   (source)
  • And the redeemed of Yahweh, in their roof garden, are served the inexhaustible, delicious flesh of the monsters Behemoth, Leviathan, and Ziz, while drinking the liquors of the four sweet rivers of paradise.†   (source)
  • "He's a perfect behemoth!" said Marie.†   (source)
  • People talked of it as of that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub.†   (source)
  • 40:15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.†   (source)
  • The grassy clods now calved; now half appeared
    The tawny lion, pawing to get free
    His hinder parts, then springs as broke from bonds,
    And rampant shakes his brinded mane; the ounce,
    The libbard, and the tiger, as the mole
    Rising, the crumbled earth above them threw
    In hillocks: The swift stag from under ground
    Bore up his branching head: Scarce from his mould
    Behemoth biggest born of earth upheaved
    His vastness: Fleeced the flocks and bleating rose,
    As plants: Ambiguous between sea and land
    The river-horse, and scaly crocodile.†   (source)
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