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Brannon first assumed the sadness etched on Mizelle's face came from its obloid shape and droopy jowls, until he saw the man's eyes.
Brannon's Choice Browne, Richard W 2001
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From the rift in the tunnel's continuation, nigh a mile beyond the cleft through which we had fled, lifted a crown of horns -- of tentacles -- erect, alert, of mottled gold and crimson; lifted higher -- and from a monstrous scarlet head beneath them blazed two enormous, obloid eyes, their depths wells of purplish phosphorescence; higher still -- noseless, earless, chinless; a livid, worm mouth from which a slender scarlet tongue leaped like playing flames!
The Moon Pool 1919
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From the rift in the tunnel's continuation, nigh a mile beyond the cleft through which we had fled, lifted a crown of horns -- of tentacles -- erect, alert, of mottled gold and crimson; lifted higher -- and from a monstrous scarlet head beneath them blazed two enormous, obloid eyes, their depths wells of purplish phosphorescence; higher still -- noseless, earless, chinless; a livid, worm mouth from which a slender scarlet tongue leaped like playing flames!
The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913
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