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  • They dared as close as their riders would let them go, darting in and out, dodging Tamat's lightnings and the dreadful black sky-metal death swords in her hands, and trying to score her with teeth and talon.

    Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

  • She searched through the chaotic jumble and at last, underneath the wreck of a basket containing mummified food, she found the adze of sky-metal that was used in resurrection rituals.

    The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002

  • Drawn by the incomparable blue glow emitted by the sky-metal sword, all this great upwelling of light and life swirled around theGr'msketter, disturbing neither water nor sky but overwhelming and beating back the darkness imposed by the clinging fog.

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • As the stern-faced herdsman unsheathed the sky-metal sword and prepared to defend the two of them, the Berserker could be seen fumbling with the head of the majestic mallet.

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • Choosing, he reached back over his shoulder and drew the sky-metal sword Otjihanja had made for him.

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • A chunk the size of a small plate had been taken out of the side of the sky-metal blade.

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • Moments later he emerged with the sky-metal sword gripped tightly in one hand.

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • Calling forth the temperature in which it had been birthed, the sky-metal sword had turned the geyser instantly to ice.

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • With nothing left to steer, Ehomba had picked up the sky-metal sword.

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • Despite the destruction of the sky-metal sword, the herdsman still had its oceanic counterpart and his walking spear to scatter the hostile.

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

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