world-girdling

So perhaps it behooves us mainly to avoid the giant wars and the world-girdling police state by not doing those things that have that result, like enthusiatically endorsing relative decline and actively working for it, since that tends to result in severe political instability.

Matthew Yglesias » Almost All Decline is Relative 2010

Or we get some world-girdling police state that stagnates and collapses (or somehow winds up unleashing nuclear war on itself).

Matthew Yglesias » Almost All Decline is Relative 2010

Foremost among us, of course,. the great world-girdling sea serpent Louella Jones.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Jim Baen's Universe 13 - Eric Flint Blue Tyson 2008

The cold and frozen world of Alan Dean Foster's Icerigger as well as his world-girdling forest of Midgard.

Fantastic Settings marycatelli 2010

You get * Glass Dragons*, sequel to _Voyage of the Shadowmoon, _ which begins as several sorcerers begin the rebuilding of the Dragonwall, a world-girdling etheric structure founded on the ruins of a predecessor which made men as gods but was cataclysmically destroyed thousands of years before.

Who Do You Say I Am 2010

Foremost among us, of course,. the great world-girdling sea serpent Louella Jones.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Fish Story 13 - Eric Flint and Dave Freer and Andrew Dennis Blue Tyson 2008

But three have come before them, from the death-throes of the old world, Midgard: the world-girdling Serpent, Bearer of Burdens; the Wolf Fenris, eater of the Sun, who now takes the form of an einherjar; and his demon sister, stealer of souls.

Archive 2009-10-01 RobB 2009

But three have come before them, from the death-throes of the old world, Midgard: the world-girdling Serpent, Bearer of Burdens; the Wolf Fenris, eater of the Sun, who now takes the form of an einherjar; and his demon sister, stealer of souls.

Books in the Mail (W/E 10/24/2009) RobB 2009

Yet, such a world-girdling flood ought to and would have left enormous, massive evidence of just the sorts of things that floods do — but, except for specific localities where real floods are known to have have occurred at other times, e.g., the so-called “scablands” of eastern Washington state, such evidence is wholly lacking.

"My problem was, how am I going to draw God?" Ann Althouse 2009

Kidman Mrs. Coulter: The Magesterium the world-girdling totalitarian organization is what people need, to keep things working, by telling people what to do.

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