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"I thought I felt eyes upon me, but it could have been a passing wolf, an owl-or nay more than a restless spiorad, a-roaming in the wood.
The Fiery Cross Gabaldon, Diana 2001
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"'Is it gone?' ...
'I dinna ken if it was ever there, Sassenach,' he said. 'I thought I felt eyes upon me, but it could have been a passing wolf, an owl—or nay more than a restless spiorad, a-roaming in the wood. But aye, it's gone now.'"
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 391
January 20, 2010