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Much more than five-armed blue monsters with ray guns kidnapping shrieking scantily clad women, good Science Fiction holds an important place in the direction and future of humankind.

Why Science Fiction is Important. « Write Anything 2009

For instance, a typical Buddhist image of a hand mirror morphed into a five-armed mirror to depict the "five concomitant factors" that are part of the Buddhist perspective on sight.

Seeing science through a spiritual lens, with the Smithsonian's help Amy Yee 2010

Did you see the cloud resembling a five-armed coat over Chichester last Saturday?

Heard By a Bird in Phonecia, New York Sparrow 2009

Then she looked around — at the window, the heavy winter curtains normally tied back through the warmer months fully drawn, then at the bed, bathed in the golden glow thrown by two six-armed candelabra perched on the angled bedside tables, a seven-armed cousin on the tallboy against the corridor wall, and a five-armed one standing on the chest against the opposite wall.

The Perfect Lover Laurens, Stephanie 2003

A glazed skylight illuminated the stairwell, something Garric had never seen before; a five-armed lampholder hung from a chain for use later in the evening.

Lord of the Isles 1997

After this follows a marvellous succession of changes, form giving place to form, differing more in appearance and structure from the five-armed starfish than a caterpillar differs from a butterfly.

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

On the overmantel stood two five-armed sconces with lighted tapers.

Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912

Sir Andrew was immediately behind her, and on her right was the table with the five-armed candelabra upon it.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

Sir Andrew was immediately behind her, and on her right was the table with the five-armed candelabra upon it.

The Scarlet Pimpernel 1905

And now came forth the grapnels -- two five-armed anchors, with flukes, sharply curved and tapering to an oblique, toothlike end, the hooks with which the engineer was going to fish from the Great Eastern for a take worth, with all its belongings, more than a million.

The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition 1865