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Usage examples of "tumours".
Joshua saw new tumours of polyp pushing up through the moss like rock mushrooms: furniture buds starting the slow growth into the form Helen wanted.
Short-range combat sensors slid out of their jump recesses with smooth animosity, metallic black tumours inset with circular gold-mirror lenses.
The tumours can’t be reversed, but the packages should be able to contain them until we get back to the real universe.
The tumours caused by the Yeyuka virus tended to spread fast but grow slowly, often partially disabling people for years before killing them, and when they could no longer manage heavy rural labour, they usually headed for the nearest city in the hope of finding work.
For some tumours, the only guide to location and extent was plain old palpation.
Maybe other tumours were already growing unseen in other parts of the body, but doing the best possible job, here and now, might still add three or four years to this man's life.
Down on his luck of late, perhaps, weakened by the tumours between his legs, no doubt, but his talent and vision had if anything grown sharper for all the grief and pain he'd suffered.
Here and there bobbed rusting tins and knots of fleshy tissue like tumours or aborted foetuses.
Gnarled granite tumours that had sat heavy in the belly of the land since its birth, their thin earth-flesh stripped from them by air and water in a mere ten thousand years.
The extra rooms jutted like ugly tumours from the interior walls of the eleventh floor, bulging precariously over the garden.
But if I did eject the half-digested tumours all my work would be undone.