More descriptions and quotes.

git-svn-id: https://crawl-ref.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/crawl-ref/trunk@4003 c06c8d41-db1a-0410-9941-cceddc491573

3 files changed, 62 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt
index 1016f3670d..e6c08d28f3 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,17 @@ The skins of several animals.
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 apple
 
-A delicious red or green fruit.
+A delicious, firm red fruit, tart to the tongue.
+
+"MINERVA was the goddess of wisdom, but on one occasion she 
+did a very foolish thing; she entered into competition with 
+Juno and Venus for the prize of beauty. It happened thus: 
+At the nuptials of Peleus and Thetis all the gods were 
+invited with the exception of Eris, or Discord. Enraged 
+at her exclusion, the goddess threw a golden apple among 
+the guests, with the inscription, 'For the fairest.'"
+
+	-Bullfinch's Mythology, Chap. XXVII. a.
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 apricot
 
@@ -378,6 +388,9 @@ A cloth cloak.
 club
 
 A heavy piece of wood.
+
+"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
+	-Theodore Roosevelt
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 corpse
 
@@ -556,6 +569,14 @@ wanted to.
 gold piece
 
 A pile of glittering gold coins.
+
+"Here it was that the ambassadors of the Samnites, finding him 
+boiling turnips in the chimney corner, offered him a present of 
+gold; but he sent them away with this saying; that he, who was 
+content with such a supper, had no need of gold; and that he 
+thought it more honourable to conquer those who possessed the 
+gold, than to possess the gold itself."
+	-Plutarch, "Marcus Cato"
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 grape
 
diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt
index f8627c0e92..33c93e1a70 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/monsters.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ A huge and very powerful demon, wreathed in fire and shadows.
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 Blork the Orc
 
-A particularly fat and ugly orc.
+A particularly fat and ugly orc.  He seems to have scavenged 
+a pair of rainbow-colored suspenders from somewhere.  They're
+not helping.
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 Blue Death
 
@@ -873,7 +875,13 @@ about it.
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 imp
 
-A small, ugly minor demon.
+A small, ugly minor demon.  Its fanged maw seems locked in a permanent
+malign grin, and its horns protrude obscenely from its scaly pate.
+
+"The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent 
+for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, 
+and to substitute in their place imps."
+	-Martin Luther
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 insubstantial wisp
 
@@ -903,7 +911,18 @@ A small, dog-like scavenger. Packs of these creatures roam the underworld, searc
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 jelly
 
-A pulsating mass of acidic protoplasm. It can and will eat almost anything, and grows a little each time...
+A pulsating mass of acidic protoplasm. It can and will eat almost 
+anything, and grows a little each time...
+
+"Beware of the Blob!
+It creeps 
+And leaps
+and glides and slides 
+Across the floor 
+Right through the door 
+And all around the wall, 
+A splotch, a blotch..."
+	-Burt Bacharach, "Beware of the Blob"
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 jellyfish
 
@@ -1495,7 +1514,15 @@ A huge animated wood statue.
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 worm
 
-A giant worm, with unusually large teeth.
+A giant worm, glistening with slime, with unusually large teeth.
+You find yourself surprised that a worm should have teeth at all.
+
+'While the angels, all pallid and wan,	 
+  Uprising, unveiling, affirm	 
+That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"	 
+  And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.'
+
+	-Edgar Allen Poe
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 wraith
 
diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/unident.txt b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/unident.txt
index 7d55e741d7..85b69dcc25 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/unident.txt
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/unident.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ A lump of rock.
 potion
 
 A small bottle of liquid.
+
+"Then gave I her, -- so tutor'd by my art, --	 
+A sleeping potion; which so took effect
+As I intended, for it wrought on her
+The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo
+That he should hither come as this dire night,
+To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,
+Being the time the potion's force should cease."
+	-William Shakespeare, _Romeo and Juliet_
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 ring