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  • His shifts his weight in the saddle and glances once more to his right, out at Olisenn and the first squad, riding methodically across the dead-land, looking for signs of growth Lorn doubts they will find.

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • And all day long, one by one, more men came forth, like ghosts, from the dead-land.

    Life at High Tide Henry Mills Alden 1877

  • For one brief second the swirling clouds were reft, revealing, far out eastward, in the dead-land of white, a small dark object -- the form of

    Life at High Tide Henry Mills Alden 1877

  • He fully comprehended the awfulness of that great white dead-land just outside.

    Life at High Tide Henry Mills Alden 1877

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