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  • Her brilliant obsidian eyes were unreadable, but her smile was friendly.†   (source)
  • He had obsidian eyes that looked as if they could punch holes in steel.†   (source)
  • Away, away, you shall fly away, And never return to me...THEMAW OF THEOCEAN The obsidian seas heaved underneath the Dragon Wing, propelling the ship high in the air.†   (source)
  • "You're not being put off," the Baron said, and he stared into the Sardaukar's obsidian eyes.†   (source)
  • He eased back in his seat, eyes gleaming obsidian.†   (source)
  • It is a clear, not quite warm September night, the obsidian sky brimming with stars.†   (source)
  • It was Hephestial glass, obsidian, formed when the rock I walked through had been heated to liquid and had flowed across this part of the world.†   (source)
  • She clutched a large obsidian scroll tube with trembling hands.†   (source)
  • They moved the sand around and uncovered obsidian arrowheads he could sell to old men in camp for fifty cents apiece.†   (source)
  • The maneuvers at Camp Tarawa, with its obsidian terrain and its access to the pitching Pacific surf, were designed, as far as was humanly possible, to make the troops live out the assault on Iwo Jima before they got there; to live it out in their reflexes, their instincts, their dreams.†   (source)
  • The man in black, smiling, swelled in his vision and then retreated down a long and echoing corridor filled with obsidian pylons.†   (source)
  • Like obsidian did.†   (source)
  • Half a dozen of the Norsemen jumped out after the sheep and wrestled the first one up onto a flat obsidian stone.†   (source)
  • The woman, though, just watched her with eyes like flat obsidian circles.†   (source)
  • Just a block of homes burning and sinking into the obsidian sea that had swallowed the city.†   (source)
  • The chariot was inlaid with obsidian and gold, decorated with scenes of painful death.†   (source)
  • It spread its metal wings, blinked its obsidian eyes, and flew around the room.†   (source)
  • Standing on the wide veranda that encompassed the obsidian clock tower, Celaena tried not to shiver.†   (source)
  • His obsidian black robes seemed to pull most of the sunlight out of the room.†   (source)
  • "Obsidian," Maester Luwin insisted, holding out his wounded arm.†   (source)
  • We all collapsed, exhausted, on the obsidian gravel.†   (source)
  • He rummaged through my bag and passed me the obsidian netjeri blade from Anubis.†   (source)
  • In place of swords, they carried blades of obsidian.†   (source)
  • No lantern is permitted him, no torch, no lamp, no taper ...only a candle of obsidian.†   (source)
  • The High Priest gazed at him and Arya with eyes like chips of obsidian.†   (source)
  • He could see her watching him through the haze, her eyes as black as obsidian.†   (source)
  • His face was inhumanly handsome, chiseled obsidian.†   (source)
  • It was gleaming, all the hotel's windows and lights reflecting on its obsidian exterior.†   (source)
  • The golden dust of the spider settled on the obsidian rocks.†   (source)
  • It was a greasy black bird almost as large as an eagle, with a jagged beak like an obsidian knife.†   (source)
  • The Aztecs fight with spears and swords of obsidian.†   (source)
  • She picked up a chunk of jagged black obsidian and crept to the left.†   (source)
  • Fire will dismay them, though, and they are vulnerable to obsidian.†   (source)
  • Pieces of obsidian larger than platters broke off, and I lowered them carefully to the ground.†   (source)
  • "You slew this creature with an obsidian dagger, I am told," he said to Sam.†   (source)
  • "The sword," Surt demanded, his obsidian face looming over me.†   (source)
  • Fire will dismay them, though, and they are vulnerable to obsidian.†   (source)
  • None of the figures answered, but stood in a silent line of obsidian death masks.†   (source)
  • They fell in a tinkling shower of obsidian shards, revealing the ghastly faces beneath.†   (source)
  • I stabbed him with an obsidian dagger, and my Sworn Brothers call me Sam the Slayer now.†   (source)
  • He swiftly rolled it up and tamped it down into its obsidian case.†   (source)
  • I told him about the obsidian door and the stairway to the throne room, but I stumbled a little.†   (source)
  • Their complexions were an assortment of volcanic colors—ash, lava, pumice, obsidian.†   (source)
  • My own reflection was there as well, distorted by the bumps and ridges in the obsidian.†   (source)
  • Would the obsidian door be restored and the Gift returned to its mirrored tray?†   (source)
  • The obsidian crashing to the floor had made enough sound to wake the dead, but no one moved.†   (source)
  • Then I looked again through the hole in the obsidian.†   (source)
  • That big piece of obsidian that I told you about, though, is right there.†   (source)
  • I was facing the giant piece of obsidian, and I wondered how many had sat there before me.†   (source)
  • The pry bar rebounded, chipping free a small chunk of the obsidian.†   (source)
  • His long hair was braided in cornrows decorated with pieces of glittering black stone—obsidian, perhaps.†   (source)
  • Even though he was still the only kid in it, it was going to look pretty cool: solid obsidian walls with a skull over the door and torches that burned with green fire twenty-four hours a day.†   (source)
  • "No; I've relaxed it recently, as you suggested," the duke replied, rotating the obsidian ring around his thick finger.†   (source)
  • The pain in her head erupted, so violent that her vision went obsidian, and she stopped thinking clearly.†   (source)
  • His horse and his armor were grey, but his cloak was the rippling blue-and-red of Riverrun, and a shiny black fish, wrought in gold and obsidian, pinned its folds against his shoulder.†   (source)
  • It wasn't that he was ugly—in fact, his tanned face was rather pleasant, but there was something nasty about his demeanor, about his obsidian eyes as they shifted and met her own.†   (source)
  • He had put aside the heavy plate and helm he'd worn as the Knight of the Gate for the lighter leather-and-mail of an outrider, but his obsidian fish still fastened his cloak.†   (source)
  • The wars went on until the earth ran red with blood of men and children both, but more children than men, for men were bigger and stronger, and wood and stone and obsidian make a poor match for bronze.†   (source)
  • The malakhim were dressed in hooded black robes, their faces hidden behind obsidian masks whose cracks and gouges marred their serene, angelic features.†   (source)
  • The cross-guard, grip, and pommel were gold chased with obsidian, the blade a silver so dark it was nearly black.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were as black as obsidian.†   (source)
  • The children of the forest used to give the Night's Watch a hundred obsidian daggers every year, during the Age of Heroes.†   (source)
  • It reached down with two bone-white hands to pull out the knife, but where its fingers touched the obsidian they smoked.†   (source)
  • Along either wall crouched four obsidian statues of the Set animal, their faces turned towards us with pearl teeth bared and emerald eyes glittering.†   (source)
  • She passed under a bronze arch fashioned in the likeness of two snakes mating, their scales delicate flakes of jade, obsidian, and lapis lazuli.†   (source)
  • Set into the hard clay, as if never fully excavated, were tools made of bone, fossilized wooden implements, obsidian flakes in the shape of arrowheads, and the skeleton of a saber-toothed tiger.†   (source)
  • The sun was even farther down now, but there was enough of it to strike sparks off the obsidian stars along the central ridge.†   (source)
  • What the maesters call obsidian.†   (source)
  • The drops, as they struck the ground, became tiny obsidian snakes that wiggled away into the underbrush.†   (source)
  • The Focus had clung to this piece of obsidian for millennia, and from his first glimpse of it Rex had known instinctively that it had pierced the heart of the beast on the wall.†   (source)
  • The children of the forest used to give the Night's Watch a hundred obsidian daggers every year, during the Age of Heroes.†   (source)
  • He was the cold presence Hazel had felt earlier—like a vast deposit of obsidian, so heavy that Hazel couldn't possibly move it, powerful and indestructible and completely devoid of emotion.†   (source)
  • All were seasoned rangers, armed with obsidian as well as steel, warhorns slung across their saddles should they need to summon help.†   (source)
  • "...obsidian," said the other man in the room, a pale, fleshy, pasty-faced young fellow with round shoulders, soft hands, close-set eyes, and food stains on his robes.†   (source)
  • The obsidian walls were carved with scenes of death: plague victims, corpses on the battlefield, torture chambers with skeletons hanging in iron cages—all of it embellished with precious gems that somehow made the scenes even more ghastly.†   (source)
  • Rummaging through, he pulled out a pair of hooded black robes and the obsidian death masks with marred, angelic faces.†   (source)
  • He brought steel; swords, axes, helms, good chainmail hauberks, to trade for furs, ivory, amber, and obsidian.†   (source)
  • They'd know where to find obsidian.†   (source)
  • At the bottom stretched a nightmarish version of the Grand Canyon: a river of fire cutting a path through a jagged obsidian crevasse, the glowing red current casting horrible shadows across the cliff faces.†   (source)
  • At first glance, it appeared a gleaming black—like jet or obsidian—but there were other positions when it suddenly shone like silver and still others in which the coppery waves of the lymrill's quills were revealed like the patterns in Damascus steel.†   (source)
  • Obsidian does not burn.†   (source)
  • "On Dragonstone, where I had my seat, there is much of this obsidian to be seen in the old tunnels beneath the mountain," the king told Sam.†   (source)
  • Obsidian.†   (source)
  • They call it obsidian.†   (source)
  • The piece of obsidian was easily the size of a double doorway, although veins of solid rock ran through it.†   (source)
  • In the longest corridor in the maze, excepting the one with the water and the bones, there was an enormous piece of obsidian, veined with solid rock.†   (source)
  • Nothing except huge chunks of obsidian.†   (source)
  • The brooches were set with lapis and obsidian and a variety of other stones, but none of them was Hamiathes's Gift.†   (source)
  • I scooped it up and picked my way through the rubble of obsidian and stone and climbed up the stairs.†   (source)
  • Had I tried to escape the last maze at the last minute the night before and been trapped by the river, hallucinating everything else, the obsidian door, the gods, Hephestia, and Hamiathes's Gift?†   (source)
  • His face was profoundly wrinkled and black, like a mask of obsidian.†   (source)
  • Here is that by which thou wilt survive the wind of the obsidian knives.†   (source)
  • And anyway the eagle has ancient respect in Mexico from the old religion and the great class of knights in those days of obsidian sword slaughter that Diaz del Castillo witnessed.†   (source)
  • The terrain consisted mostly of thick slime mixed with petrified branches, but it changed little by little near four o'clock in the afternoon; it grew rockier and seemed to be strewn with pudding stones and a basaltic gravel called "tuff," together with bits of lava and sulfurous obsidian.†   (source)
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