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  • But Danny was protean.†  (source)
  • But...well, if you don't want to use them —' 'You can do a Protean Charm?' said Terry Boot.†  (source)
  • Why shouldn't we all meet, as in some epic of protean gods and ordinary people, aloft, well-formed, shining?†  (source)
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  • In peacetime the protean characteristics of the mountainscape meant nothing more than that parties of sportsmen lost their way and were forced to extend their food supply to cover a few extra days of walking.†  (source)
  • besides, in the life of complete inertia which she led she attached to the least of her sensations an extraordinary importance, endowed them with a Protean ubiquity which made it difficult for her to keep them secret, and, failing a confidant to whom she might communicate them, she used to promulgate them to herself in an unceasing monologue which was her sole form of activity.†  (source)
  • She was so many-sided, so many-mooded—"protean-mooded" I called her.†  (source)
  • Donald appeared not to see her at all, and answered her wise little remarks with curtly indifferent monosyllables, his looks and faculties hanging on the woman who could boast of a more Protean variety in her phases, moods, opinions, and also principles, than could Elizabeth.†  (source)
  • We take one each, and when Harry sets the date of the next meeting he'll change the numbers on his coin, and because I've put a Protean Charm on them, they'll all change to mimic his.'†  (source)
  • The eyes themselves were of that baffling protean grey which is never twice the same; which runs through many shades and colourings like intershot silk in sunshine; which is grey, dark and light, and greenish-grey, and sometimes of the clear azure of the deep sea.†  (source)
  • /Good/ is almost as protean.†  (source)
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