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diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt index 5dc72ead33..eccd268b55 100644 --- a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt +++ b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt @@ -451,23 +451,9 @@ chunk of flesh A piece of meat found in the dungeon. %%%% -cloak noquote - -A cloth cloak. -%%%% cloak A cloth cloak. - -"O Bell my wife, why dost thou flyte? - Now is now, and then was then: - Seek now all the world throughout, - Thou kens not clowns from gentlemen: - They are clad in black, green, yellow and blue, - So far above their own degree. - Once in my life I'll take a view; - For I'll have a new cloak about me." - -Anonymous, "The Old Cloak". 16th Century. %%%% club noquote @@ -514,25 +500,9 @@ crystal plate mail An incredibly heavy but extremely effective suit of crystalline armour. It is somewhat resistant to corrosion. %%%% -dagger noquote - -A long knife or a very short sword, which can be held or thrown. -%%%% dagger A long knife or a very short sword, which can be held or thrown. - -"He drew his dagger, that was sae sharp, - That was sae sharp and meet, - And drave it into the nut-browne bride, - That fell deid at his feit. - - 'Now stay for me, dear Annet,' he sed, - 'Now stay, my dear,' he cry'd; - Then strake the dagger untill his heart, - And fell deid by her side." - -English traditional ballad, "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet", - circa 1650. %%%% dart @@ -673,14 +643,6 @@ 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" %%%% grape @@ -806,24 +768,9 @@ lemon A yellow fruit. %%%% -long sword noquote - -A sword with a long, slashing blade. -%%%% long sword A sword with a long, slashing blade. - -"Oh I won't get up, I won't get up, - I can't get up for my life - For you have two long beaten swords - And I have but a pocket knife. - - Well it's true I have two beaten swords, - They cost me deep in the purse - But you will have the better of them - And I will have the worst." - -English traditional ballad, "Mattie Groves". Circa 1600. %%%% longbow @@ -833,20 +780,6 @@ a skilled archer can use it to great effect. lychee A tropical fruit. - -"The Litchi is the most celebrated native fruit of China. It is -nearly round, about an inch and a half in diameter, the shell is -tough, becoming brittle, of a chocolate brown colour covered all -over with wart-like protuberances. When fresh it is filled with a -white almost transparent, sweet, jelly-like pulp in which lies a -rather large, shining, brown seed; the pulp is of a delicious sub-acid -flavour when fresh. The Chinese dry it when it becomes black like -a prune and thus preserve it for use throughout the year; in this state -it is frequently to be seen in the London fruit shops." - -John Smith, _A Dictionary of Popular Names of the Plants - which Furnish the Natural and Acquired Wants of Man, in - All Matters of Domestic and General Economy: Their History, - Products, & Uses_. 1882. %%%% mace @@ -900,16 +833,6 @@ A needle. It can be fired with a blowgun. orange A delicious, juicy orange fruit. - -"Conserve of Orange Peel - -HAVING grated the rinds of some Seville oranges as thin as you can, -weigh them, and to every pound of orange rind add three pounds of loaf sugar. -Pound the orange rind well in a marble mortar, mix the sugar by degrees -with them and beat all well together. Put it into gallipots and tie -it down so as properly to prevent the air getting to it." - -Francis Collingwood, John Woollams, _The Universal - Cook: And City and Country Housekeeper._ 1792. %%%% orb of zot @@ -1068,20 +991,6 @@ rambutan A small but delicious tropical fruit. How it got into this dungeon is anyone's guess. - -"The rambutan (_nephelium lappaceum_) is a beautiful fruit to which -I have already alluded, as resembling the mammoth arbutus; and you suppose -them at first, when at a little distance from you, a delicious dish of -some tropical strawberry. But you find on inquiring into the 'particulars -within' the outer coat, that there is concealed beneath the red and hairy -covering a semi-transparent pulp of a pleasant acid taste, enveloping a -single oval and oblong seed. I know not but I am peculiar in my memory -of the beautiful fruits of the straits, but none lingers in my recollection -so sweetly in its clustered beauties of the fruit-dish as the bearded -and rosy rambutan." - -Fitch Waterman Taylor, _A Voyage Round the World And Visits - to Various Foreign Countries, in the United States Frigate - Columbia_. 1847. %%%% ring mail @@ -1415,9 +1324,6 @@ slice of pizza A slice of pizza; a flatbread with tomato sauce, mozarella di bufala, and basil. - -"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore." - -Jack Brooks, "That's Amore" %%%% sling @@ -1547,26 +1453,10 @@ suppose you could wear it if you really wanted to. strawberry A small but delicious red fruit. - -"A Samurai was out walking when a large tiger began to chase him. The -samurai ran for his life, never seeing the cliff under his feet. As -he fell, he reached out and caught a vine that hung down. He looked -down and saw another tiger circling below; the first tiger waited -above. The vine began to give away. The samurai then saw a single -strawberry growing on the vine. He reached out and ate the strawberry. -How sweet it tasted!" - -Attributed to various Japanese buddhist monks. %%%% sultana A humble raisin. - -"A Turkish garden was among the curiosities to which the Jew found access -for Bentham. It was a sort of orchard of vines and other trees, without -order or apparent arrangement. From that garden Bentham sent specimens -of the Sultana raisin to England which he believed to have been the first -of that species which had ever reached his country." - -John Bowring, _The Works of Jeremy Bentham_. 1839. %%%% swamp dragon armour |