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  • That part was boring at first, but it ended with explosionsthe perverse eye-kicks of buildings tumbling after their hoverstruts were ripped apart by slivers of half-molten metal.

    Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • That part was boring at first, but it ended with explosionsthe perverse eye-kicks of buildings tumbling after their hoverstruts were ripped apart by slivers of half-molten metal.

    Extras Scott Westerfeld 2008

  • That part was boring at first, but it ended with explosionsthe perverse eye-kicks of buildings tumbling after their hoverstruts were ripped apart by slivers of half-molten metal.

    Extras Scott Westerfeld 2008

  • That part was boring at first, but it ended with explosionsthe perverse eye-kicks of buildings tumbling after their hoverstruts were ripped apart by slivers of half-molten metal.

    Extras Scott Westerfeld 2008

  • That part was boring at first, but it ended with explosionsthe perverse eye-kicks of buildings tumbling after their hoverstruts were ripped apart by slivers of half-molten metal.

    Extras Scott Westerfeld 2008

  • His need, anger, and sorrow drove him deeper into it than he had ever been or dared to go before; he grasped the raw power with unflinching "hands," manipulating it like soft, half-molten iron.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • His need, anger, and sorrow drove him deeper into it than he had ever been or dared to go before; he grasped the raw power with unflinching "hands," manipulating it like soft, half-molten iron.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • He did not switch off his raygun until the fifth robot was a glowing heap of half-molten metal and the almost unbearable heat made breathing difficult in the Command Room.

    Spaceship of Ancestors Ernsting, Walter 1975

  • The best way to secure this joint is to pour some half-molten solder on the ends of pipe and brick, making a solder clamp.

    Elements of Plumbing Samuel Edward Dibble

  • It was the most extraordinary walk imaginable, over that vast plain of lava, twisted and distorted into every conceivable shape and form, according to the temperature it had originally attained and the rapidity with which it had cooled, its surface, like half-molten glass, cracking and breaking beneath our feet.

    Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

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