Market-Day
"no," admitted the dog-colonel in an abstracted tone, "but ..." _yes!_ good! excellent! work to be done! half the battle! only he didn't want to suggest that the colonel's current slave was bad, no, that would just make him defensive.
Action Scene
Pieces of hair and skull painted an abstract art tour de force. the other goons had gaping holes in various places, nothing noteworthy. i had to tiptoe over the blood to reach the stairs, holes gouged into the wood and walls.
Nala's Venture: A Game of Questions
To her eyes it was still abstract, and yet bizarrely familiar as well. "oh, well... this thing has been here as long as i can remember." mirembe cocked her head, looking at the stone thing as if with new eyes.
Solar Winds
Off to the side a small cage of four golden fox kits watched this with horrer and a kind of abstract fascination. this was what they were meant to do? sol gasped as he awoke, panting.
No Frills: Buford Mack Hudson
Grey and dark green abstract markings. body starting to show his age slightly, beginning to get fattier although still muscular.
Black Meridian 19: Hold Me Close
The rings made lyric's head hurt, even in the abstract everyone was playing each other, hypotheticals upon hypotheticals. _and if i'm to kill riddon, can't rightly leave a creature like drast walking.
Raven Wolf - Book 02 - Chapter 12
Mort opens the door to the room entering, sculptures of all kinds both large and small, in both realistic and abstract art styles filling the room.
The Egg Assignment, part 1
They were tiny models of airships, flowers, dragons, abstract geometric shapes, and all other sorts of things.
Starborne - Adrift in a Sea of Stars: Out of the Dark
abstract became real. i was reborn in the truest sense of the word in this moment. no mind, organic or artificial, can truly be alive without an embodiment.
TUESDAY, A Metamor Keep Story
From the belly button down, samoht k'yphir was a smooth, translucent green bag of flesh whose shape vaguely resembled the abstract idea of a man. "but, on the bright side, you're not turning into a lutin."
Gothic Cathedrals
They sat in a modern lecture hall ('capacity: 240') in the two-year-old 'art school' building, the lights dim and sleepy, overhead projectors hanging in svelte, metal cages from the pearl-white ceiling, and all the walls with abstract, wooden designs.
Evolution Part I: Chapter Thirty-three
And yet, those most skilled in the art of abstract thought, those like pink nose, lopside and fat gut, i think they saw that the title of alpha was in its essence meaningless.