Grendel

1 use

"He reshapes the world," I whispered, belligerent.

1 use

ORK: Brothers, I've talked with the Great Destroyer!

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FIRST PRIEST: Blasphemy! It is written: "Ye shall not see my face."

2 uses

In some way that I couldn't explain, I knew that his scorn of my childish credulity was right.

1 use

He got a cunning look, as if getting ready to offer a deal—the look men have when they fight with men instead of poor stupid animals.

1 use

1 use

They have dim apprehensions that such propositions as 'God does not exist' are somewhat dubious at least in comparison with statements like 'All carnivorous cows eat meat.'

2 uses

Futility, doom, became a smell in the air,

11 uses

They watch with mindless, indifferent eyes,

2 uses

He had something in reserve, some ingenious product of his counselor's wits that would overwhelm their scheme.

2 uses

And yet in its refusal, it passes toward novel order as a primary requisite for important experience.

1 use

4 uses

He and his company went on, their weapons clinking, chain-mail jangling, solemn and ominous as drums.

1 use

My wickedness five years ago, or six, or twelve, has no existence except as now, mumbling, mumbling, sacrificing the slain world to the omnipotence of words, I strain my memory to regain it.

7 uses

...he said angrily (unaware of the irony that he, a prince, had a right to anger, and the old man, a peasant, did not).

1 use

pervasive and acrid as the dead smell after a forest fire

2 uses

"Go ahead, scoff," he said, petulant.

4 uses

His manner of speaking was infecting me, making me pompous.

2 uses

He no longer looked at me, no longer made any pretense of telling the truth.

10 uses

Though I scorned them, sometimes hated them, there had been something between myself and men when we could fight.

5 uses