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Usage examples of lifelines.

This symbolic grass through which he searched represented the interwoven lifelines of all the animals and plants that nourished, or had flourished, upon a certain few square miles of Sirgol's land surface, during a few decades of time, some twenty thousand years deep in the prehistoric past.

But the main purpose of this coursing maneuver was to splash up a few waves-to create disturbances in the historical positionings of the plant and animal lifelines about him, disturbances that a skilled sentry some twenty thousand years in the future would hopefully be able to see and pinpoint.

The data needed to draw the web was flowing in from human lifelines being bent and battered.

If that life unit could be captured without further damage to other lifelines, a berserker victory would be insured.

Scraps of knowledge he had picked up in the Moderns' world, about the war as it was fought with screens and missiles, lifelines and keyholes, suddenly dovetailed with what had happened to him here in the world of Ay.

We can count fourteen lifelines in or near that monastery-temple complex.

He lashed the small rubber boat to the lifelines midships where it could easily be cut loose.

Honninscrave skidded under the lifelines to the mast, took Pitchwife from Hergrom's damaged grasp.

Honninscrave skidded under the lifelines to the mast, took Pitchwife from Hergrom’s damaged grasp.

If that life-unit could be captured without further damage to other lifelines, a berserker victory would be insured.

Scraps of knowledge he had picked up in the Modern's world, about the war as it was fought with screens and missiles, lifelines and keyholes, suddenly dovetailed with what had happened to him here in the world of Ay.

Simply cut the lifelines, kick feet clear of grips, and then the long float off into death and nowhere would begin.

Corpses were being collected, cut free of lifelines and carried down the hole.

Then, following a short rest period, the entire team donned battle suits and pulled themselves along zero-grav lifelines to ships themselves.