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Maybe you light a candle to find something familiar. You can't Rock is rock, but in a cave it assumes strange shapes -- hollow tubes or bursts of crystals. The fish in pools of water are eyeless and are nearly transparent. Brown bats, squeaking as they zip around you, are the most common animals. Often they carry rabies...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: Where Have The Explorers Gone? Today's Adventurer Craves A Cave | 11/3/1966 | See Source »

...moderates can be expected to counter, as Ralph Abernathy, one of King's aides, did recently, with the argument that "if the philosophy of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is carried to its ultimate conclusion, we are eventually going to have everybody eyeless and everybody toothless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: The New Racism | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...cellar windows are empty, eyeless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Poems in the Summer School Poetry Contest | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...eyeless windows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Poems in the Summer School Poetry Contest | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

This is the most honest thing in an autobiography that breaks the rules by offering no one quite credible except the subject. But the last we see of Shelagh, in "gintears" and alone among the eyeless houses of a condemned slum, is vivid enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dead End Kids | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

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