Word: centaure
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...Half-Centaur. "... A polar cold prevailed, and the air was thick with fog of the texture of a polar bear's pelt. Out of these unfathomable, and therefore vast, spaces of frozen fur, of white and yellow, there showed occasionally a horse's teeth or glaring eyes, or a frostbitten or port-nipped military face, conjured up out of the gloom and darkness, like a materialization at a seance. . . . Men shouted, sergeants commanded; bugles every now and then indulged in a brazen, idiot bray...
...lover Hermann Göring, hastily moving south, was rumored to have boarded the sealed, armored train and rolled off with his treasures. Art experts had reason to believe that the Göring loot included Raphael's Madonna of Divine Love, Botticelli's Minerva and Centaur, Titian's Portrait of Lavinia, Van Eyck's altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb...
...seeing a centaur-like figure caricaturing the bustled woman: Rather decorative as a matter of fact...
Hospital ships get first priority on everything. Because of this, some shore hospitals' doctors are likely to growl when the hospital ships come around. The Japs sank the Australian hospital ship Centaur last year. But Captain Bennett believes that was a mistake and that hospital ships are relatively safe. After all, the Japs have registered more than 20 hospital ships themselves...
Pearl Thighs and Centaur Sweat. Veronica spent most of her time horseback-riding-"the mother-of-pearl pincers of her thighs pressing the animal's flanks and blending with it in a pearly communion of centaur sweat." Betka had had a child before she left Paris: the father was probably the masked aviator, though it might have been three acrobats. But Veronica was not jealous. When she recalled her masked aviator, "her will fluttered like the star-spangled banner...