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A couple in the doorway smoking, a whiff of kif about them. 206p.
A fine powder created from rubbing the THC crystals off of marijuana buds with a cheese cloth to cheapen the bud and later to be added to your own stash for added potency.
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The doors to Dr. Hannibal Lecter's memory palace is in the darkness at the center of his mind and it has a latch that can be found bu touch alone. This curious portal opens on immense and well-lit places, early baroque, and corridors and chambers rivaling in number those of the Topcapi Museum.
He was considering it for a display in his memory palace... 203p.
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Yates F. A., Selected works. The art of memory.
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He was tmiddling the little wheels of the blade carrier, the mouton, which prevent the blade from jamming on its way down. 216p.
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The mullions in its many windows were curved like spiderwebs weighted with dew. 77p.
A mullion is a vertical structural element which divides adjacent window units. The primary purpose of the mullion is as a structural support to an arch or lintel above the window opening. Its secondary purpose may be as a rigid support to the glazing of the window. When used to support glazing, they are teamed with horizontal supporting elements called "transoms".
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There was a scroll on the dais befor the armor. It was unrolled only enough to show the first panel, the samurai wearing the armor... 93p.
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...and rested his hand on the rayskin grip of the short sword. 153p.
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Shagreen is a type of rawhide consisting of rough untanned skin, formerly made from a horse's back or that of anonager (wild ass). Shagreen is now commonly made of the skins of sharks and rays.
Shagreen has an unusually rough and granular surface, and is sometimes used as a fancy leather for book bindings, pocketbooks and small cases, as well as its more utilitarian uses in the hilts and scabbards of swords anddaggers, where slipperiness is a disadvantage.
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The clock used the Roman 1V on its face, rater than 1111, for simmetry with the V111 on the other side. Hannibal wondered if that meant it had Roman striking - two chimes, one meaning "five" and another meaning "one". 98p.
Some rare clocks use a form of striking known as "Roman Striking" (invented by Joseph KNIBB), where a large bell or lower tone is sounded to represent "five", and a small bell or high tone is sounded to represent "one". For example, the hour of four o'clock would be sounded as a high tone followed by a low tone, whereas the hour of eleven o'clock would be sounded by two low tones followed by a high tone. Clocks using this type of striking usually represent four o'clock on the dial with an "IV" rather than the more common "IIII"
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A tantō ("short sword") is one of the traditional Japanese swords (nihonto) that were worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. The tantō dates to the Heian period, when it was mainly used as a weapon but evolved in design over the years to become more ornate.
The Tanto is commonly referred to as a knife or dagger. The blade is single or double edged with a length between 15 and 30 cm (6-12 inches, in Japanese 1 shaku). The tantō was designed primarily as a stabbing weapon, but the edge can be used for slashing as well.
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The candlelight played on St. Joan and gave random expressions to her face like chance tunes in a wind chime. 204p.
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Wind chimes are chimes constructed from suspended tubes, rods, bells or other objects and are often made of metal or wood. Wind chimes are usually hung outside of a building or |
