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"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"skewer","Verb","UNKNOWN","3801","Dinoniel himself had come into this cave after the beast, had skewered the dactyl...","",""
"rotate","Verb","UNKNOWN","3802","With a sickening crackle of bone, the creature's head rotated completely around and bowed, examining the second imperfection of its form, a scarred lump under its lower left shoulder blade.","",""
"scars","Noun","UNKNOWN","3803","Pellimar would carry scars forever, but surely he had mended.","",""
"thro","Noun","UNKNOWN","3804","Yet even in its death throes, the dactyl had won the day, using its willpower to bring up the magma from the bowels of Aida.","",""
"bowel","Noun","UNKNOWN","3805","Yet even in its death throes, the dactyl had won the day, using its willpower to bring up the magma from the bowels of Aida.","",""
"resonating","Noun","UNKNOWN","3806","""What man, what elf, will take Dinoniel's place?"" the demon asked aloud in its hollow, resonating voice, always seeming on the edge of a thunderous roar.","",""
"greed","Noun","UNKNOWN","3807","The wicked goblins certainly, so full of anger and greed, so delighting in murder and war.","",""
"warlike","Noun","UNKNOWN","3808","And the powries, yes, the powries, the cunning, warlike dwarves of the Julianthes, the Weathered Isles, who hated the humans above all others.","",""
"drool","Noun","UNKNOWN","3809","But he was a letch, a drooling, grabby slob, who took it personally when Jill refused his advances.","",""
"twilight","Noun","UNKNOWN","3810","The twilight of Corona was at hand.","",""
"sorrow","Noun","UNKNOWN","3811","To untwist hearts from grasping sorrow,
"pounding","Noun","UNKNOWN","3801","And through it all, barehanded and with weapons, they would square off against each other, pounding on each other relentlessly.","",""
"mutual","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3802","There was supposed to be no anger toward an opponent, only respect and mutual learning, but Quintall growled whenever the masters paired him against Avelyn.","",""
"superiority","Noun","UNKNOWN","3803","He stood with an air of superiority, posture perfect, hand on gilded rapier.","",""
"serpent","Noun","UNKNOWN","3804","In most of the maneuvers, the monks were supposed to pull their punches, but Quintall often blasted the breath from Avelyn; there was no striking above the shoulders allowed, but more than once, Quintall knifed a ""serpent hand"" across Avelyn's throat, dropping him to his knees, gasping for breath.","",""
"eliminate","Verb","UNKNOWN","3805","The slips had become too common; Avelyn honestly believed Quintall meant to eliminate the competition.","",""
"goose","Noun","UNKNOWN","3806","Quintall's grin was certainly as far from Godlike as anything Avelyn had ever seen, and the fact that their training with weapons, where wounds could easily become more severe, was not far away, brought goose bumps to the scholarly young man.","",""
"removed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3807","Perhaps this training was not so far removed from the nighttime training, which Avelyn considered more important.","",""
"cocky","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3808","Who might this leader of the herd be to inspire such uncharacteristic respect from cocky Bradwarden?","",""
"vague","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3809","Master Jojonah's instructions were vague at best, but Avelyn came to understand them in his heart.","",""
"twinkle","Noun","UNKNOWN","3810","Soon the sky was clear above him, the first stars twinkling into view.","",""
"pet","Noun","UNKNOWN","3811","""The war goes well, my pet,"" the dactyl went on.","",""
"awe","Noun","UNKNOWN","3812","But the quiet awe.","",""
"factor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3813","Was their mission the overriding factor here, for if they attacked and were beaten back, killed, or captured, then who would go on to the smoking mountain to stand against the demon dactyl?","",""
"ascension","Noun","UNKNOWN","3814","There were in the abbey no more than four other monks, three of them masters and one Father Abbot Markwart himself, who could so distinguish magical intensity, and that fact had been the determining factor in Dalebert Markwart's ascension to the highest rank, for his chief rival could not determine magical intensity in individual stones.","",""
"dreary","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3815","He set out from the abbey one dark and dreary morning, riding an ash-gray mare, not swift of hoof but long in heart.","",""
"staircase","Noun","UNKNOWN","3816","""Finished already?"" Grady called as he descended the wide, sweeping staircase of House Battlebrow, the most renowned brothel in all of Palmaris.","",""
"eavesdrop","Noun","UNKNOWN","3817","Avelyn tried hard not to eavesdrop, but he did catch snatches of the conversation, mostly Siherton complaining vigorously that this was against strict procedure.","",""
"unintentionally","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3818","""Not a test, but a show,"" Jojonah argued, * unintentionally lifting his voice.","",""
"upraise","Verb","UNKNOWN","3819","Finally, Father Abbot Markwart halted the conversation with an upraised hand.","",""
"awestruck","Verb","UNKNOWN","3820","From the trees behind Elbryan, Pony and Avelyn watched awestruck.","",""
"chrysotile","Noun","UNKNOWN","3821","He held out his left hand and opened it to show Avelyn three stones: malachite, ringed with various shades of green; shining, polished amber; and a silvery piece of chrysotile, the largest of the three resembling a sheet of straight bars, long and narrow lying side by side.","",""
"disparate","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3822","Avelyn considered the sight from two widely disparate viewpoints.","",""
"nonetheless","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3823","Nonetheless, Jojonah began to protest again, but Markwart cut him short.","",""
"gleam","Noun","UNKNOWN","3824","Father Abbot Markwart appeared wickedly intense, the gleam in his eyes seeming almost maniacal, and certainly frightening.","",""
"thrum","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3825","The ruby was thrumming in his hand, its magic intense and straining for release.","",""
"heartfelt","Noun","UNKNOWN","3826","Father Abbot Markwart burst out into the most heartfelt laughter Avelyn had ever heard.","",""
"ridgeline","Noun","UNKNOWN","3827","Elbryan's instincts - something about the air, perhaps, the aroma told him this was not the slope leading out of Dundalis up to the ridgeline, the slope where he had met the ...","",""
"internal","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3828","""West,"" Elbryan decided after studying it for a moment, his instincts, his internal directional sense, sorting things out.","",""
"buffet","Verb","UNKNOWN","3829","Cold winds and stinging spray buffeted the crew.","",""
"unmoving","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3830","Elbryan looked down the slope curiously, just the few feet to the unmoving mist.","",""
"chime","Verb","UNKNOWN","3831","Somehow he knew the speaker was not human, that no human voice could chime so sweetly, so perfectly.","",""
"supple","Noun","UNKNOWN","3832","This creature's limbs didn't look skinny, any more than did the supple branches of a bending willow.","",""
"bending","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3833","This creature's limbs didn't look skinny, any more than did the supple branches of a bending willow.","",""
"plainly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3834","The way the words were spoken, however plainly and without any apparent deception allowed Elbryan to relax somewhat.","",""
"deception","Singular","UNKNOWN","3835","The way the words were spoken, however plainly and without any apparent deception allowed Elbryan to relax somewhat.","",""
"shimmer","Noun","UNKNOWN","3836","It was as if the being shone of its own accord, an inner light making the flowing hair glow and shimmer.","",""
"relative","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3837","Juraviel had a response for that, a remark concerning the relative unpreparedness of Dundalis in the face of such knowledge.","",""
"equip","Verb","UNKNOWN","3838","Thus was Brother Justice equipped to find and destroy Avelyn.","",""
"destroying","Noun","UNKNOWN","3839","Am I goblin or fomorian?"" Juraviel asked calmly, that melodic voice alone destroying any possible comparisons to the croaking and growling monsters.","",""
"croak","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3840","Am I goblin or fomorian?"" Juraviel asked calmly, that melodic voice alone destroying any possible comparisons to the croaking and growling monsters.","",""
"strode","Noun","UNKNOWN","3841","Boldly the monk strode forward, stepped up on the leading wall of obsidian, and forward, too, went his magical shield, stealing the demon's heat.","",""
"shallow","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3842","The creature wasn't following a trail, Elbryan believed, but was making one, walking as easily and openly through the underbrush as a man might wade through a shallow pond.","",""
"tidy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3843","There could be only one answer, for no living creature, not even one of the great dragons of the north, could so tear this amount of ground in such an even, tidy manner.","",""
"arrogance","Noun","UNKNOWN","3844","Elbryan realized the arrogance of that notion, an almost sinful pride,.","",""
"impulse","Noun","UNKNOWN","3845","But the dactyl was not a stupid creature and could control its impulses, even those bent upon destruction, which the demon loved above all else.","",""
"exaggerated","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3846","Might be the animals, might be the plants."" Bradwarden stopped and offered an exaggerated wink that Elbryan, still a fair distance down the hill, saw clearly.","",""
"widening","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3847","The sharks would feed on the dead, and the frantic actions of those still alive combined with the widening blood spill would likely bring more in, he knew.","",""
"unpleasant","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3848","The ranger quickly removed his clothes, the grass feeling scratchy but not unpleasant to his feet.","",""
"likeness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3849","Twin rows of massive columns, each carved into the likeness of a giant warrior, lined the room.","",""
"peril","Noun","UNKNOWN","3850","The journey was too treacherous, and if the crew had been well paid, as promised, they would have had no reason to dare the perils of the South Mirianic again.","",""
"bloodline","Noun","UNKNOWN","3851","But after speaking with the boy, Juraviel was even more convinced that this was indeed the true bloodline of Mather, and an appropriate ranger-in-training.","",""
"remainder","Noun","UNKNOWN","3852","He spent the remainder of the afternoon caught up in the sights and smells.","",""
"going","Noun","UNKNOWN","3853","Elbryan had stopped at the top of the hillock, but he felt as if he were still going up, still ascending to those brilliant, twinkling dots.","",""
"ascend","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3854","Elbryan had stopped at the top of the hillock, but he felt as if he were still going up, still ascending to those brilliant, twinkling dots.","",""
"spiritually","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3855","Though he was back on earth, spiritually, the music remained, soft and wonderful, emanating from every shadow, from every tree, from the ground itself.","",""
"singer","Noun","UNKNOWN","3856","His direction chosen, he started off, determined to find the singer.","",""
"oak","Noun","UNKNOWN","3857","Juraviel found him at dawn, curled in a hollow at the base of a wide oak.","",""
"unanswered","Verb","UNKNOWN","3858","They are to me the shining symbol of all the unanswered questions of human existence, of our place in this vast sky, of our purpose, of death itself.","",""
"temporary","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3859","I had ascended from this temporary existence, from a place of constant change to a place of eternity.","",""
"breech","Noun","UNKNOWN","3860","CHAPTER 10 Made of Tougher Stuff
To offer the promise of the morrow?","",""
"morrow","Noun","UNKNOWN","3812","To untwist hearts from grasping sorrow,
Elbryan rolled his breeches up over his knees - not that the worn and ragged pants would stay that way for long!","",""
"singsong","Noun","UNKNOWN","3861","From somewhere in the thick brush behind him, he heard a call, ""Be quick about it!"" The words were not spoken in the common tongue of Honce-the-Bear but in the singsong, melodious language of the elves, a language Elbryan was already beginning to comprehend.","",""
"reckon","Verb","UNKNOWN","3862","By his reckoning, the winter solstice had passed, and he knew Dundalis, or what was left of the village, was likely under several feel of snow.","",""
"gusting","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3863","He remembered well the hardships, and the excitement, of Dundalis in the winter, the gusting wind throwing icy particles against the side of the cabin, the piles of blowing snow, sometimes so deep that he and his father had to break through a drift just to get outside!","",""
"reed","Noun","UNKNOWN","3864","Parting one patch of reeds, the boy found his first stone of the day, bobbing low in the water.","",""
"flavored","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3865","When he squeezed them, extracting the now-flavored liquid, the elves would inevitably complain about how little he had collected.","",""
"ironically","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3866","The monk had found peace within himself, ironically, in the midst of a war, a battle that Avelyn knew justified the actions that had weighed so heavily on him these last years.","",""
"sticky","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3867","those silken elven strands, which, Elbryan found out soon enough, could be made as sticky and clingy as a spiderweb.","",""
"loaded","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3868","He got his reward for his morning's toils when he returned to the bog to collect the tenth loaded basket.","",""
"impossible","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3869","Here, high stones lined both sides of the trail, making passage off the path nearly impossible unless Elbryan took a circuitous route quite deep into the underbrush.","",""
"circuitous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3870","Here, high stones lined both sides of the trail, making passage off the path nearly impossible unless Elbryan took a circuitous route quite deep into the underbrush.","",""
"trellis","Noun","UNKNOWN","3871","- and had cleverly covered it with a layer of dirt and fallen leaves, supported by a trellis of woven sticks.","",""
"woven","Noun","UNKNOWN","3872","Into the spike, the beast sent its vision, the telltale tracings of human-woven magic.","",""
"phony","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3873","He would have leaped clear of the phony, only to drop heavily into the real one.","",""
"dimension","Plural","UNKNOWN","3874","Now it was Elbryan's turn to laugh, as he discerned the dimensions of the true trap, then easily leaped it, leaving the last few feet of the path, the last expanse to the food, open to him.","",""
"fletchings","Noun","UNKNOWN","3875","A long arrow protruded from its back, an arrow with fletchings familiar to the woman.","",""
"clothe","Verb","UNKNOWN","3876","Not a sound came from about the beast as, clothing and all, the dactyl devoured the torn skin of Gothra.","",""
"cowards","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3877","Are you cowards, then?","",""
"mess","Noun","UNKNOWN","3878","It struck the bowl of stew, overturning it and making a mess of the meal.","",""
"miserably","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3879","Surely Tuntun would have to come to him, if for no other reason than to tell him how miserably he had failed in protecting the three towns!","",""
"veritable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3880","He wheeled, but Tuntun turned with him, staying behind him and punching out a veritable drum roll on his upper back.","",""
"indignantly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3881","""He fights like a human,"" Tuntun answered indignantly.","",""
"porous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3882","His spirit walked free of his body, passed through the porous wood of the door and past the pair of oblivious guards.","",""
"bard","Noun","UNKNOWN","3883","Their contacts in the wide human world were discrete and few, but the elves did enough trading so that they could bring desired items, curiosity pieces mostly, and a sampling of songs of the few human bards who could bring them pleasure, into their valley.","",""
"defiance","Noun","UNKNOWN","3884","The monk snarled in defiance and kicked at the heavy door.","",""
"finality","Noun","UNKNOWN","3885","""It was God's will,"" Markwart said with finality.","",""
"angling","Noun","UNKNOWN","3886","Juraviel took full advantage, put Elbryan off balance and kept on twisting, angling the boy over the trough.","",""
"illogic","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3887","If you fail in this, if you do not prove yourself worthy of elven friendship, you cannot be let out into the world with the knowledge you have attained of our home and of our ways.""
To offer the promise of the morrow?","",""
"waft","Noun","UNKNOWN","3813","Hot blood waft steam in night air cold.","",""
"flower","Verb","UNKNOWN","3814","A way goes Nightbird, the forest to greet
Even as Elbryan started to protest, horrified at the thought of becoming a prisoner, Juraviel finished grimly, ""Nor can you stay.""
In springtime sunshine, of Evil no traces,
Elbryan's thoughts shifted to the illogic of it all.","",""
"inhuman","Noun","UNKNOWN","3888","Jojonah closed his eyes and remembered all the times Siherton had warned him about Avelyn's almost inhuman dedication.","",""
"substitute","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3889","Yet measured against the speed and agility of the elves, the fluidity of their movements, substituting perfect balance for lack of weight and strength, Elbryan truly felt a novice.","",""
"astounding","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3890","Juraviel, lighter and smaller, had put him down with astounding ease, a simple movement for which Elbryan had no counter.","",""
"gangly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3891","As the weeks became months, and they became a year, and then two, Elbryan was hardly recognizable as the short gangly boy that Jilseponie had once beat up.","",""
"proprietor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3892","CHAPTER 11 Cat-the-Stray
Through flowers and lovers, step measured paces
""Corner table, Cat,"" called Graevis Chilichunk, the barkeep and proprietor of Fellowship Way, reputedly the finest inn in all the great city of Palmaris.","",""
"reputedly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3893","CHAPTER 11 Cat-the-Stray
And sleep peaceful lovers, secure.","",""
"heaviest","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3815","He grabbed the heaviest wrap he could find and rushed out into the dark and chill air, so anxious that he hardly remembered to close the cabin door behind him.","",""
"eerily","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3816","The small frontier village of Dundalis was quiet and eerily still about him, sleeping off the well-earned weariness that followed every day's hard labor.","",""
"teen","Noun","UNKNOWN","3817","She was in her mid-teens, but had the shapely body of a woman five years older.","",""
"repair","Verb","UNKNOWN","3818","That meant gathering wood and tending the fires, repairing the cabins-which always seemed to need repair!","",""
"packs","Noun","UNKNOWN","3819","The others caught up to the ranger then, Bradwarden - with Juraviel nestled comfortably on his back, the elf tucked between the heavy packs -
moving up right beside Elbryan.","",""
"wolf","Noun","UNKNOWN","3820","Somewhere in the distance a wolf howled, and another took up the song, and for Elbryan, the music was sweeter now than ever before, than even in those years he had spent in the enchanted elven forest.","",""
"expedition","Singular","UNKNOWN","3821","This would be the last time he remained behind when the hunters went off on the season's last and most important expedition.","",""
"comer","Noun","UNKNOWN","3822","Elbryan moved up to the comer of the next house, smiling for his cleverness, and peered around.","",""
"male","Noun","UNKNOWN","3823","One time Elbryan had made the mistake of catching Jilseponie without his male companions nearby, and of tugging too hard on her yellow mane to prove the point of his capture.","",""
"merry","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3824","He felt as though he could say anything to her, and she wouldn't judge him or make merry of his feelings.","",""
"outfight","Noun","UNKNOWN","3825","She stood straight but not stiff, and could outrun and outfight any of the boys in Dundalis, Elbryan included.","",""
"distracting","Verb","UNKNOWN","3826","Elbryan dismissed all thought of the elves, and each time one of those distracting notions - or any other thoughts from outside this one room - came back to him, he fought it off.","",""
"richest","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3827","Her eyes, huge eyes, were the richest and clearest blue Elbryan had ever seen, like great sponges soaking in the sights of the wide world and reflecting Jilseponie's every mood.","",""
"involuntarily","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3828","When Pony's eyes showed sadness, Elbryan felt it in his heart; when they soared with sparkling joy, Elbryan's feet moved involuntarily in dance.","",""
"reflexively","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3829","She reflexively cocked a fist, and Elbryan wisely jumped back.","",""
"rainbow","Noun","UNKNOWN","3830","She remembered that long-ago morning on the tree-covered slope, looking at the sky, at the shining Halo, with its rainbow of colors, its heavenly allure.","",""
"perceptible","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3831","It floated through-the chill air, barely perceptible.","",""
"dell","Noun","UNKNOWN","3832","Juraviel let him lead often and corrected him whenever he went wrong - which was not often any longer - and soon the pair came into the low dell called Caer'alfar: Elvenhome.","",""
"exhilarating","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3833","It was loud and rushing, exhilarating.","",""
"spirituality","Noun","UNKNOWN","3834","There is more to spirituality than piety, my friend.","",""
"theirs","Noun","UNKNOWN","3835","No, it was his experience and Pony's - theirs alone.","",""
"shapely","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3836","She was in her mid-teens, but had the shapely body of a woman five years older.","",""
"starkness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3837","The starkness of the scene from this vantage point, in this mounting light, amazed the companions.","",""
"shoe","Noun","UNKNOWN","3838","Every time he gazed upon the white carpet, he wanted to take off his shoes and pants and run through it barefoot and bare legged, to feel its softness between his toes and brushing against his shins.","",""
"assessment","Noun","UNKNOWN","3839","""How many thousands must we defeat even to reach its black rocky base?""
Elbryan shook his head determinedly, somehow sure his companion's assessment was not correct.","",""
"elk","Noun","UNKNOWN","3840","The hunters would return with carcasses - elk, caribou, or white-tailed deer - slung on shoulder poles, and it seemed to the watching pair as if this hunt had been successful indeed!","",""
"southeast","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3841","""The sun is in the southeast,"" Elbryan reminded Pony, squaring his shoulders as he took command of the situation.","",""
"squaring","Verb","UNKNOWN","3842","""The sun is in the southeast,"" Elbryan reminded Pony, squaring his shoulders as he took command of the situation.","",""
"northeast","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3843","""The hunters approach from the northeast, so all we have to do is keep the sun just behind our right shoulders.""
It seemed logical enough to Pony, so she.","",""
"buck","Noun","UNKNOWN","3844","He screamed out and tried to buck, the force and dive ahead, arm extended, Tempest leading.","",""
"stock","Noun","UNKNOWN","3845","Expressions ran from excitement to awkward fear to blank amazement as the villagers took stock of the kills, especially the last carcass on the shoulder poles, a smallish humanoid form.","",""
"flapping","Noun","UNKNOWN","3846","She heard the flapping wings, the screams, the dying.","",""
"greenish","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3847","The woman shuddered when she considered the mouth, a tangle of greenish-yellow fangs, all crooked but each angled inward.","",""
"inward","Noun","UNKNOWN","3848","""When the eyes of sentries turn inward,
When the hearts of men covet,
When love is lost to lust.","",""
"jowl","Noun","UNKNOWN","3849","The chin was narrow, but the jowls wide with muscle.","",""
"wrinkled","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3850","Elbryan watched the wrinkled' and bent elder, Brody Gentle, by name, though the children usually called him ""Body Grabber"" in mock horror, teasing him and then running away.","",""
"contradiction","Singular","UNKNOWN","3851","That seeming contradiction had left Elbryan in a quandary.","",""
"questioning","Noun","UNKNOWN","3852","Elbryan noted the curtness of the answer, the elf's crisp, almost sharp tone, and he understood that further questioning would be unwelcome, that he would learn what he must when the elves decided to tell him.","",""
"myth","Verb","UNKNOWN","3853","Goblins were little seen creatures; many considered them more myth than truth.","",""
"sighting","Noun","UNKNOWN","3854","The raid on Dundalis, the sightings of goblins and even giants, the evidence of many, earthquakes to the north of Andur'Blough Inninness - all pointed to the resurgence of the dactyl.","",""
"intervene","Verb","UNKNOWN","3855","When she wouldn't - couldn't - tell him anything about the staff-wielding stranger who had intervened in the inn, the ferocious monk had beaten her again, and now one of her eyes was swollen closed.","",""
"supper","Noun","UNKNOWN","3856","""Better suited for the common house, after a supper of venison stew.""
0lwan nodded and the crowd gradually dispersed, one person taking a last, long look at the goblin, which was indeed fast turning gray.","",""
"disperse","Verb","UNKNOWN","3857","But Avelyn's expression of joy, of victory, was short-lived, for the stone could not contain such energy, and it threw it out, dispersed as green smoke into the air, the sheer force of the expulsion throwing Elbryan and Avelyn backward into Pony and Bradwarden, the resulting smoke filling the corridor.","",""
"sustain","Verb","UNKNOWN","3858","Pony couldn't sustain her smile as she watched him go, wondering if she had pushed him a little too hard.","",""
"simultaneously","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3859","The staff connected simultaneously on the sword and the goblin's hand, knocking the weapon from the creature's grasp and launching it a dozen feet away.","",""
"injure","Verb","UNKNOWN","3860","After a moment of shock, the goblins had thrown their spears, injuring one man.","",""
"goblinkind","Noun","UNKNOWN","3861","Next came a discussion, led by Brody Gentle, of goblinkind in general, from the numerous small goblins to the rare and dangerous disfigured fomorian giants.","",""
"bored","Verb","UNKNOWN","3862","Elbryan looked at Pony, who seemed to be growing quite bored by it all, and motioned to the door.","",""
"qualification","Singular","UNKNOWN","3863","The eight years of Avelyn's' pretraining had included only minor instruction in the martial arts, but he had suspected that the physical qualifications of the brotherhood, the ability to fight, would become more prominent once inside the monastery.","",""
"discount","Verb","UNKNOWN","3864","Pony shrugged, not willing to discount the possibility of giants, not after viewing a dead goblin.","",""
"doubtfully","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3865","""How do you know that?"" Elbryan asked doubtfully, and his tone seemed to hurt the girl.","",""
"charmed","Verb","UNKNOWN","3866","""Ho, ho, what!"" Avelyn howled, charmed by it all.","",""
"intertwine","Verb","UNKNOWN","3867","The horse angled near a second elm, its branches intertwined with the one near the giant, and Elbryan leaped away, running, surefooted, along one rain-slicked limb.","",""
"visits","Noun","UNKNOWN","3868","She had spent the four days of the storm alone - except for the regular visits of Quintall, who never seemed to get enough of her.","",""
"majority","Noun","UNKNOWN","3869","The majority of Tinson's residents slept the day through, preferring the revelry of the night.","",""
"conquest","Noun","UNKNOWN","3870","Images of conquest flooded Quintall's every thought.","",""
"formal","Adjective","B2","3871","The four monks were on deck when Bunkus Smealy informed them that they would have no formal duties that day, that they might go about their business.","",""
"certainty","Noun","UNKNOWN","3872","Avelyn knew with near certainty that this would be the last time he saw her, and likely the last time he'd see his father, as well.","",""
"sibling","Noun","UNKNOWN","3873","His next youngest sibling was seven years his senior, and so he wasn't really close to any of them.","",""
"senior","Noun","UNKNOWN","3874","His next youngest sibling was seven years his senior, and so he wasn't really close to any of them.","",""
"illuminated","Verb","UNKNOWN","3875","That image, that confirmation, was burned into Avelyn's thoughts as clearly as if it had been painted and magically illuminated on the inside of his eyelids.","",""
"illness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3876","The last few years had been hard on her, one illness after another.","",""
"selfish","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3877","The folk of Elkenbrook had never known such a huge gathering of goblins, could not conceive of the notion that the hateful, selfish creatures could ever band together in such numbers.","",""
"grinding","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3878","A grinding sound, the great gates sliding open, brought the young man from his contemplations.","",""
"unified","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3879","Now the creature saw the time to organize its forces fully; to begin its unified attacks.","",""
"unintentional","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3880","Avelyn heard the slaps of wood, the unintentional groans, even an occasional cry from the younger students near the front.","",""
"frail","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3881","He couldn't say that to frail Annalisa, he knew.","",""
"rack","Verb","UNKNOWN","3882","But his words hardly seemed to calm Thagraine; quite the opposite, the man, obviously racked with guilt paced all the more furiously, slapping his hands together repeatedly.","",""
"designs","Noun","UNKNOWN","3883","He came up fast on a pair of great bronze doors, inlaid with a myriad of designs and symbols.","",""
"overlapping","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3884","Suits of armor of various designs stood as silent sentinels, every type from the overlapping wooden plates of the ancient Behrenese to the strong metal-plate mail designed for Honce-the-Bear's Allheart Brigade, the personal guards of the King -
whoever that might be at the moment.","",""
"figures","Noun","UNKNOWN","3885","Elbryan first noticed the ghostly figures moving through the mist as twilight descended.","",""
"tunic","Noun","UNKNOWN","3886","The shorter of the pair wore a light leather tunic and arm shields, metal sleeves hooked over the figure's thumbs and running from wrists to elbow.","",""
"specially","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3887","He had recently commissioned a specially designed saddle from the local leatherworker, and had made no secret that it was for Nightbird, payment for some work the ranger had done for him.","",""
"interlock","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3888","Its limbs were slender and long and its armor a silver shining coat of fine interlocking links.","",""
"ranking","Noun","UNKNOWN","3889","He calmed quickly, though, seeing that all of his classmates were similarly entranced and that the Father Abbot and the other ranking monks seemed not to care.","",""
"brotherhood","Noun","UNKNOWN","3890","I knew the purest contemplation, the release of physical boundaries, the brotherhood with all the universe.","",""
"idealistic","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3891","All that the gentle and idealistic young man wanted was to serve God, to foster peace, to heal, and to comfort.","",""
"hoard","Noun","UNKNOWN","3892","To Avelyn Desbris, nothing in all the world, not the treasures of a dragon's hoard, nor the powers of a king, could outweigh that accomplishment.","",""
"outweigh","Verb","UNKNOWN","3893","To Avelyn Desbris, nothing in all the world, not the treasures of a dragon's hoard, nor the powers of a king, could outweigh that accomplishment.","",""
"quieted","Verb","UNKNOWN","3894","CHAPTER 3 The Lingering Kiss
Things quieted quickly in Dundalis.","",""
"troublesome","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3895","For the adults, the specter of the goblins brought a sobering wariness and then a troublesome distraction.","",""
"cautious","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3896","But even the great wound in the monster's belly fast closed, while Quintall's movements became more cautious, more dangerous.","",""
"rust","Noun","UNKNOWN","3897","Pony left Avelyn's side then, rusting to join with Elbryan.","",""
"counterpart","Noun","UNKNOWN","3898","Each of this group nodded respectfully at his younger counterparts as he passed them on the rim; some mentioned that Elbryan's patrols would serve as their vital liaison with the village proper.","",""
"colder","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3899","As each day slipped past - the weather growing a bit colder, the wind shifting more to the north - the twenty-five in Elbryan's group perfected their patrol routes.","",""
"perfected","Verb","UNKNOWN","3900","As each day slipped past - the weather growing a bit colder, the wind shifting more to the north - the twenty-five in Elbryan's group perfected their patrol routes.","",""
""Corner table, Cat,"" called Graevis Chilichunk, the barkeep and proprietor of Fellowship Way, reputedly the finest inn in all the great city of Palmaris.","",""
"commonly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3894","Fellowship Way, or the Way, as it was commonly called, was not a large establishment, boasting only a dozen small, private rooms and a single common bedroom in the upstairs guest quarters, and a tavern that could hold no more than a hundred, and that with most folks standing.","",""
"customer","Noun","UNKNOWN","3895","In the Way, a single piece of silver would get you a hot meal, and a mere smile, whether you were a paying customer or not, would coax from Graevis or from most of the other usual patrons or workers a marvelous tale.","",""
"worker","Noun","UNKNOWN","3896","He was a worker, a true frontiersman.","",""
"ample","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3897","They were about the same height, but Tol, with his barrel-like torso and ample belly, was heavier.","",""
"suitor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3898","And it was all done in such good fun that neither Graevis nor any suitor of her unsuspecting dance partner ever seemed to care.","",""
"unrivaled","Verb","UNKNOWN","3899","Pettibwa just had an unrivaled love of life and of other people.","",""
"accent","Noun","UNKNOWN","3900","Elbryan couldn't make out every word; the goblins were using the language spoken by the common folk of Corona, but the creatures' accents were so thick, their slang so heavy, that the ranger could only get a general impression of their conversation.","",""
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2 skewer pounding Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3801 Dinoniel himself had come into this cave after the beast, had skewered the dactyl... And through it all, barehanded and with weapons, they would square off against each other, pounding on each other relentlessly.
3 rotate mutual Verb Adjective UNKNOWN 3802 With a sickening crackle of bone, the creature's head rotated completely around and bowed, examining the second imperfection of its form, a scarred lump under its lower left shoulder blade. There was supposed to be no anger toward an opponent, only respect and mutual learning, but Quintall growled whenever the masters paired him against Avelyn.
4 scars superiority Noun UNKNOWN 3803 Pellimar would carry scars forever, but surely he had mended. He stood with an air of superiority, posture perfect, hand on gilded rapier.
5 thro serpent Noun UNKNOWN 3804 Yet even in its death throes, the dactyl had won the day, using its willpower to bring up the magma from the bowels of Aida. In most of the maneuvers, the monks were supposed to pull their punches, but Quintall often blasted the breath from Avelyn; there was no striking above the shoulders allowed, but more than once, Quintall knifed a "serpent hand" across Avelyn's throat, dropping him to his knees, gasping for breath.
6 bowel eliminate Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3805 Yet even in its death throes, the dactyl had won the day, using its willpower to bring up the magma from the bowels of Aida. The slips had become too common; Avelyn honestly believed Quintall meant to eliminate the competition.
7 resonating goose Noun UNKNOWN 3806 "What man, what elf, will take Dinoniel's place?" the demon asked aloud in its hollow, resonating voice, always seeming on the edge of a thunderous roar. Quintall's grin was certainly as far from Godlike as anything Avelyn had ever seen, and the fact that their training with weapons, where wounds could easily become more severe, was not far away, brought goose bumps to the scholarly young man.
8 greed removed Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3807 The wicked goblins certainly, so full of anger and greed, so delighting in murder and war. Perhaps this training was not so far removed from the nighttime training, which Avelyn considered more important.
9 warlike cocky Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3808 And the powries, yes, the powries, the cunning, warlike dwarves of the Julianthes, the Weathered Isles, who hated the humans above all others. Who might this leader of the herd be to inspire such uncharacteristic respect from cocky Bradwarden?
10 drool vague Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3809 But he was a letch, a drooling, grabby slob, who took it personally when Jill refused his advances. Master Jojonah's instructions were vague at best, but Avelyn came to understand them in his heart.
11 twilight twinkle Noun UNKNOWN 3810 The twilight of Corona was at hand. Soon the sky was clear above him, the first stars twinkling into view.
12 sorrow pet Noun UNKNOWN 3811 To untwist hearts from grasping sorrow, To offer the promise of the morrow? "The war goes well, my pet," the dactyl went on.
13 awe Noun UNKNOWN 3812 But the quiet awe.
14 factor Noun UNKNOWN 3813 Was their mission the overriding factor here, for if they attacked and were beaten back, killed, or captured, then who would go on to the smoking mountain to stand against the demon dactyl?
15 ascension Noun UNKNOWN 3814 There were in the abbey no more than four other monks, three of them masters and one Father Abbot Markwart himself, who could so distinguish magical intensity, and that fact had been the determining factor in Dalebert Markwart's ascension to the highest rank, for his chief rival could not determine magical intensity in individual stones.
16 dreary Adjective UNKNOWN 3815 He set out from the abbey one dark and dreary morning, riding an ash-gray mare, not swift of hoof but long in heart.
17 staircase Noun UNKNOWN 3816 "Finished already?" Grady called as he descended the wide, sweeping staircase of House Battlebrow, the most renowned brothel in all of Palmaris.
18 eavesdrop Noun UNKNOWN 3817 Avelyn tried hard not to eavesdrop, but he did catch snatches of the conversation, mostly Siherton complaining vigorously that this was against strict procedure.
19 unintentionally Adverb UNKNOWN 3818 "Not a test, but a show," Jojonah argued, * unintentionally lifting his voice.
20 upraise Verb UNKNOWN 3819 Finally, Father Abbot Markwart halted the conversation with an upraised hand.
21 awestruck Verb UNKNOWN 3820 From the trees behind Elbryan, Pony and Avelyn watched awestruck.
22 chrysotile Noun UNKNOWN 3821 He held out his left hand and opened it to show Avelyn three stones: malachite, ringed with various shades of green; shining, polished amber; and a silvery piece of chrysotile, the largest of the three resembling a sheet of straight bars, long and narrow lying side by side.
23 disparate Adjective UNKNOWN 3822 Avelyn considered the sight from two widely disparate viewpoints.
24 nonetheless Adjective UNKNOWN 3823 Nonetheless, Jojonah began to protest again, but Markwart cut him short.
25 gleam Noun UNKNOWN 3824 Father Abbot Markwart appeared wickedly intense, the gleam in his eyes seeming almost maniacal, and certainly frightening.
26 thrum Gerund UNKNOWN 3825 The ruby was thrumming in his hand, its magic intense and straining for release.
27 heartfelt Noun UNKNOWN 3826 Father Abbot Markwart burst out into the most heartfelt laughter Avelyn had ever heard.
28 ridgeline Noun UNKNOWN 3827 Elbryan's instincts - something about the air, perhaps, the aroma told him this was not the slope leading out of Dundalis up to the ridgeline, the slope where he had met the ...
29 internal Adjective UNKNOWN 3828 "West," Elbryan decided after studying it for a moment, his instincts, his internal directional sense, sorting things out.
30 buffet Verb UNKNOWN 3829 Cold winds and stinging spray buffeted the crew.
31 unmoving Adjective UNKNOWN 3830 Elbryan looked down the slope curiously, just the few feet to the unmoving mist.
32 chime Verb UNKNOWN 3831 Somehow he knew the speaker was not human, that no human voice could chime so sweetly, so perfectly.
33 supple Noun UNKNOWN 3832 This creature's limbs didn't look skinny, any more than did the supple branches of a bending willow.
34 bending Adjective UNKNOWN 3833 This creature's limbs didn't look skinny, any more than did the supple branches of a bending willow.
35 plainly Adverb UNKNOWN 3834 The way the words were spoken, however plainly and without any apparent deception allowed Elbryan to relax somewhat.
36 deception Singular UNKNOWN 3835 The way the words were spoken, however plainly and without any apparent deception allowed Elbryan to relax somewhat.
37 shimmer Noun UNKNOWN 3836 It was as if the being shone of its own accord, an inner light making the flowing hair glow and shimmer.
38 relative Adjective UNKNOWN 3837 Juraviel had a response for that, a remark concerning the relative unpreparedness of Dundalis in the face of such knowledge.
39 equip Verb UNKNOWN 3838 Thus was Brother Justice equipped to find and destroy Avelyn.
40 destroying Noun UNKNOWN 3839 Am I goblin or fomorian?" Juraviel asked calmly, that melodic voice alone destroying any possible comparisons to the croaking and growling monsters.
41 croak Gerund UNKNOWN 3840 Am I goblin or fomorian?" Juraviel asked calmly, that melodic voice alone destroying any possible comparisons to the croaking and growling monsters.
42 strode Noun UNKNOWN 3841 Boldly the monk strode forward, stepped up on the leading wall of obsidian, and forward, too, went his magical shield, stealing the demon's heat.
43 shallow Adjective UNKNOWN 3842 The creature wasn't following a trail, Elbryan believed, but was making one, walking as easily and openly through the underbrush as a man might wade through a shallow pond.
44 tidy Adjective UNKNOWN 3843 There could be only one answer, for no living creature, not even one of the great dragons of the north, could so tear this amount of ground in such an even, tidy manner.
45 arrogance Noun UNKNOWN 3844 Elbryan realized the arrogance of that notion, an almost sinful pride,.
46 impulse Noun UNKNOWN 3845 But the dactyl was not a stupid creature and could control its impulses, even those bent upon destruction, which the demon loved above all else.
47 exaggerated Adjective UNKNOWN 3846 Might be the animals, might be the plants." Bradwarden stopped and offered an exaggerated wink that Elbryan, still a fair distance down the hill, saw clearly.
48 widening Adjective UNKNOWN 3847 The sharks would feed on the dead, and the frantic actions of those still alive combined with the widening blood spill would likely bring more in, he knew.
49 unpleasant Adjective UNKNOWN 3848 The ranger quickly removed his clothes, the grass feeling scratchy but not unpleasant to his feet.
50 likeness Noun UNKNOWN 3849 Twin rows of massive columns, each carved into the likeness of a giant warrior, lined the room.
51 peril Noun UNKNOWN 3850 The journey was too treacherous, and if the crew had been well paid, as promised, they would have had no reason to dare the perils of the South Mirianic again.
52 bloodline Noun UNKNOWN 3851 But after speaking with the boy, Juraviel was even more convinced that this was indeed the true bloodline of Mather, and an appropriate ranger-in-training.
53 remainder Noun UNKNOWN 3852 He spent the remainder of the afternoon caught up in the sights and smells.
54 going Noun UNKNOWN 3853 Elbryan had stopped at the top of the hillock, but he felt as if he were still going up, still ascending to those brilliant, twinkling dots.
55 ascend Gerund UNKNOWN 3854 Elbryan had stopped at the top of the hillock, but he felt as if he were still going up, still ascending to those brilliant, twinkling dots.
56 spiritually Adverb UNKNOWN 3855 Though he was back on earth, spiritually, the music remained, soft and wonderful, emanating from every shadow, from every tree, from the ground itself.
57 singer Noun UNKNOWN 3856 His direction chosen, he started off, determined to find the singer.
58 oak Noun UNKNOWN 3857 Juraviel found him at dawn, curled in a hollow at the base of a wide oak.
59 unanswered Verb UNKNOWN 3858 They are to me the shining symbol of all the unanswered questions of human existence, of our place in this vast sky, of our purpose, of death itself.
60 temporary Adjective UNKNOWN 3859 I had ascended from this temporary existence, from a place of constant change to a place of eternity.
61 breech Noun UNKNOWN 3860 CHAPTER 10 Made of Tougher Stuff Elbryan rolled his breeches up over his knees - not that the worn and ragged pants would stay that way for long!
62 morrow singsong Noun UNKNOWN 3812 3861 To untwist hearts from grasping sorrow, To offer the promise of the morrow? From somewhere in the thick brush behind him, he heard a call, "Be quick about it!" The words were not spoken in the common tongue of Honce-the-Bear but in the singsong, melodious language of the elves, a language Elbryan was already beginning to comprehend.
63 waft reckon Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3813 3862 Hot blood waft steam in night air cold. By his reckoning, the winter solstice had passed, and he knew Dundalis, or what was left of the village, was likely under several feel of snow.
64 flower gusting Verb Adjective UNKNOWN 3814 3863 A way goes Nightbird, the forest to greet In springtime sunshine, of Evil no traces, Through flowers and lovers, step measured paces And sleep peaceful lovers, secure. He remembered well the hardships, and the excitement, of Dundalis in the winter, the gusting wind throwing icy particles against the side of the cabin, the piles of blowing snow, sometimes so deep that he and his father had to break through a drift just to get outside!
65 reed Noun UNKNOWN 3864 Parting one patch of reeds, the boy found his first stone of the day, bobbing low in the water.
66 flavored Adjective UNKNOWN 3865 When he squeezed them, extracting the now-flavored liquid, the elves would inevitably complain about how little he had collected.
67 ironically Adverb UNKNOWN 3866 The monk had found peace within himself, ironically, in the midst of a war, a battle that Avelyn knew justified the actions that had weighed so heavily on him these last years.
68 sticky Adjective UNKNOWN 3867 those silken elven strands, which, Elbryan found out soon enough, could be made as sticky and clingy as a spiderweb.
69 loaded Adjective UNKNOWN 3868 He got his reward for his morning's toils when he returned to the bog to collect the tenth loaded basket.
70 impossible Adjective UNKNOWN 3869 Here, high stones lined both sides of the trail, making passage off the path nearly impossible unless Elbryan took a circuitous route quite deep into the underbrush.
71 circuitous Adjective UNKNOWN 3870 Here, high stones lined both sides of the trail, making passage off the path nearly impossible unless Elbryan took a circuitous route quite deep into the underbrush.
72 trellis Noun UNKNOWN 3871 - and had cleverly covered it with a layer of dirt and fallen leaves, supported by a trellis of woven sticks.
73 woven Noun UNKNOWN 3872 Into the spike, the beast sent its vision, the telltale tracings of human-woven magic.
74 phony Adjective UNKNOWN 3873 He would have leaped clear of the phony, only to drop heavily into the real one.
75 dimension Plural UNKNOWN 3874 Now it was Elbryan's turn to laugh, as he discerned the dimensions of the true trap, then easily leaped it, leaving the last few feet of the path, the last expanse to the food, open to him.
76 fletchings Noun UNKNOWN 3875 A long arrow protruded from its back, an arrow with fletchings familiar to the woman.
77 clothe Verb UNKNOWN 3876 Not a sound came from about the beast as, clothing and all, the dactyl devoured the torn skin of Gothra.
78 cowards Adverb UNKNOWN 3877 Are you cowards, then?
79 mess Noun UNKNOWN 3878 It struck the bowl of stew, overturning it and making a mess of the meal.
80 miserably Adverb UNKNOWN 3879 Surely Tuntun would have to come to him, if for no other reason than to tell him how miserably he had failed in protecting the three towns!
81 veritable Adjective UNKNOWN 3880 He wheeled, but Tuntun turned with him, staying behind him and punching out a veritable drum roll on his upper back.
82 indignantly Adverb UNKNOWN 3881 "He fights like a human," Tuntun answered indignantly.
83 porous Adjective UNKNOWN 3882 His spirit walked free of his body, passed through the porous wood of the door and past the pair of oblivious guards.
84 bard Noun UNKNOWN 3883 Their contacts in the wide human world were discrete and few, but the elves did enough trading so that they could bring desired items, curiosity pieces mostly, and a sampling of songs of the few human bards who could bring them pleasure, into their valley.
85 defiance Noun UNKNOWN 3884 The monk snarled in defiance and kicked at the heavy door.
86 finality Noun UNKNOWN 3885 "It was God's will," Markwart said with finality.
87 angling Noun UNKNOWN 3886 Juraviel took full advantage, put Elbryan off balance and kept on twisting, angling the boy over the trough.
88 illogic Adjective UNKNOWN 3887 If you fail in this, if you do not prove yourself worthy of elven friendship, you cannot be let out into the world with the knowledge you have attained of our home and of our ways." Even as Elbryan started to protest, horrified at the thought of becoming a prisoner, Juraviel finished grimly, "Nor can you stay." Elbryan's thoughts shifted to the illogic of it all.
89 inhuman Noun UNKNOWN 3888 Jojonah closed his eyes and remembered all the times Siherton had warned him about Avelyn's almost inhuman dedication.
90 substitute Gerund UNKNOWN 3889 Yet measured against the speed and agility of the elves, the fluidity of their movements, substituting perfect balance for lack of weight and strength, Elbryan truly felt a novice.
91 heaviest astounding Adjective UNKNOWN 3815 3890 He grabbed the heaviest wrap he could find and rushed out into the dark and chill air, so anxious that he hardly remembered to close the cabin door behind him. Juraviel, lighter and smaller, had put him down with astounding ease, a simple movement for which Elbryan had no counter.
92 eerily gangly Adverb UNKNOWN 3816 3891 The small frontier village of Dundalis was quiet and eerily still about him, sleeping off the well-earned weariness that followed every day's hard labor. As the weeks became months, and they became a year, and then two, Elbryan was hardly recognizable as the short gangly boy that Jilseponie had once beat up.
teen Noun UNKNOWN 3817 She was in her mid-teens, but had the shapely body of a woman five years older.
repair Verb UNKNOWN 3818 That meant gathering wood and tending the fires, repairing the cabins-which always seemed to need repair!
93 packs proprietor Noun UNKNOWN 3819 3892 The others caught up to the ranger then, Bradwarden - with Juraviel nestled comfortably on his back, the elf tucked between the heavy packs - moving up right beside Elbryan. CHAPTER 11 Cat-the-Stray "Corner table, Cat," called Graevis Chilichunk, the barkeep and proprietor of Fellowship Way, reputedly the finest inn in all the great city of Palmaris.
94 wolf reputedly Noun Adverb UNKNOWN 3820 3893 Somewhere in the distance a wolf howled, and another took up the song, and for Elbryan, the music was sweeter now than ever before, than even in those years he had spent in the enchanted elven forest. CHAPTER 11 Cat-the-Stray "Corner table, Cat," called Graevis Chilichunk, the barkeep and proprietor of Fellowship Way, reputedly the finest inn in all the great city of Palmaris.
95 commonly Adverb UNKNOWN 3894 Fellowship Way, or the Way, as it was commonly called, was not a large establishment, boasting only a dozen small, private rooms and a single common bedroom in the upstairs guest quarters, and a tavern that could hold no more than a hundred, and that with most folks standing.
96 customer Noun UNKNOWN 3895 In the Way, a single piece of silver would get you a hot meal, and a mere smile, whether you were a paying customer or not, would coax from Graevis or from most of the other usual patrons or workers a marvelous tale.
97 worker Noun UNKNOWN 3896 He was a worker, a true frontiersman.
98 ample Adjective UNKNOWN 3897 They were about the same height, but Tol, with his barrel-like torso and ample belly, was heavier.
99 suitor Noun UNKNOWN 3898 And it was all done in such good fun that neither Graevis nor any suitor of her unsuspecting dance partner ever seemed to care.
100 expedition unrivaled Singular Verb UNKNOWN 3821 3899 This would be the last time he remained behind when the hunters went off on the season's last and most important expedition. Pettibwa just had an unrivaled love of life and of other people.
101 comer accent Noun UNKNOWN 3822 3900 Elbryan moved up to the comer of the next house, smiling for his cleverness, and peered around. Elbryan couldn't make out every word; the goblins were using the language spoken by the common folk of Corona, but the creatures' accents were so thick, their slang so heavy, that the ranger could only get a general impression of their conversation.
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dell Noun UNKNOWN 3832 Juraviel let him lead often and corrected him whenever he went wrong - which was not often any longer - and soon the pair came into the low dell called Caer'alfar: Elvenhome.
exhilarating Adjective UNKNOWN 3833 It was loud and rushing, exhilarating.
spirituality Noun UNKNOWN 3834 There is more to spirituality than piety, my friend.
theirs Noun UNKNOWN 3835 No, it was his experience and Pony's - theirs alone.
shapely Adverb UNKNOWN 3836 She was in her mid-teens, but had the shapely body of a woman five years older.
starkness Noun UNKNOWN 3837 The starkness of the scene from this vantage point, in this mounting light, amazed the companions.
shoe Noun UNKNOWN 3838 Every time he gazed upon the white carpet, he wanted to take off his shoes and pants and run through it barefoot and bare legged, to feel its softness between his toes and brushing against his shins.
assessment Noun UNKNOWN 3839 "How many thousands must we defeat even to reach its black rocky base?" Elbryan shook his head determinedly, somehow sure his companion's assessment was not correct.
elk Noun UNKNOWN 3840 The hunters would return with carcasses - elk, caribou, or white-tailed deer - slung on shoulder poles, and it seemed to the watching pair as if this hunt had been successful indeed!
southeast Adjective UNKNOWN 3841 "The sun is in the southeast," Elbryan reminded Pony, squaring his shoulders as he took command of the situation.
squaring Verb UNKNOWN 3842 "The sun is in the southeast," Elbryan reminded Pony, squaring his shoulders as he took command of the situation.
northeast Adjective UNKNOWN 3843 "The hunters approach from the northeast, so all we have to do is keep the sun just behind our right shoulders." It seemed logical enough to Pony, so she.
buck Noun UNKNOWN 3844 He screamed out and tried to buck, the force and dive ahead, arm extended, Tempest leading.
stock Noun UNKNOWN 3845 Expressions ran from excitement to awkward fear to blank amazement as the villagers took stock of the kills, especially the last carcass on the shoulder poles, a smallish humanoid form.
flapping Noun UNKNOWN 3846 She heard the flapping wings, the screams, the dying.
greenish Adjective UNKNOWN 3847 The woman shuddered when she considered the mouth, a tangle of greenish-yellow fangs, all crooked but each angled inward.
inward Noun UNKNOWN 3848 "When the eyes of sentries turn inward, When the hearts of men covet, When love is lost to lust.
jowl Noun UNKNOWN 3849 The chin was narrow, but the jowls wide with muscle.
wrinkled Adjective UNKNOWN 3850 Elbryan watched the wrinkled' and bent elder, Brody Gentle, by name, though the children usually called him "Body Grabber" in mock horror, teasing him and then running away.
contradiction Singular UNKNOWN 3851 That seeming contradiction had left Elbryan in a quandary.
questioning Noun UNKNOWN 3852 Elbryan noted the curtness of the answer, the elf's crisp, almost sharp tone, and he understood that further questioning would be unwelcome, that he would learn what he must when the elves decided to tell him.
myth Verb UNKNOWN 3853 Goblins were little seen creatures; many considered them more myth than truth.
sighting Noun UNKNOWN 3854 The raid on Dundalis, the sightings of goblins and even giants, the evidence of many, earthquakes to the north of Andur'Blough Inninness - all pointed to the resurgence of the dactyl.
intervene Verb UNKNOWN 3855 When she wouldn't - couldn't - tell him anything about the staff-wielding stranger who had intervened in the inn, the ferocious monk had beaten her again, and now one of her eyes was swollen closed.
supper Noun UNKNOWN 3856 "Better suited for the common house, after a supper of venison stew." 0lwan nodded and the crowd gradually dispersed, one person taking a last, long look at the goblin, which was indeed fast turning gray.
disperse Verb UNKNOWN 3857 But Avelyn's expression of joy, of victory, was short-lived, for the stone could not contain such energy, and it threw it out, dispersed as green smoke into the air, the sheer force of the expulsion throwing Elbryan and Avelyn backward into Pony and Bradwarden, the resulting smoke filling the corridor.
sustain Verb UNKNOWN 3858 Pony couldn't sustain her smile as she watched him go, wondering if she had pushed him a little too hard.
simultaneously Adverb UNKNOWN 3859 The staff connected simultaneously on the sword and the goblin's hand, knocking the weapon from the creature's grasp and launching it a dozen feet away.
injure Verb UNKNOWN 3860 After a moment of shock, the goblins had thrown their spears, injuring one man.
goblinkind Noun UNKNOWN 3861 Next came a discussion, led by Brody Gentle, of goblinkind in general, from the numerous small goblins to the rare and dangerous disfigured fomorian giants.
bored Verb UNKNOWN 3862 Elbryan looked at Pony, who seemed to be growing quite bored by it all, and motioned to the door.
qualification Singular UNKNOWN 3863 The eight years of Avelyn's' pretraining had included only minor instruction in the martial arts, but he had suspected that the physical qualifications of the brotherhood, the ability to fight, would become more prominent once inside the monastery.
discount Verb UNKNOWN 3864 Pony shrugged, not willing to discount the possibility of giants, not after viewing a dead goblin.
doubtfully Adverb UNKNOWN 3865 "How do you know that?" Elbryan asked doubtfully, and his tone seemed to hurt the girl.
charmed Verb UNKNOWN 3866 "Ho, ho, what!" Avelyn howled, charmed by it all.
intertwine Verb UNKNOWN 3867 The horse angled near a second elm, its branches intertwined with the one near the giant, and Elbryan leaped away, running, surefooted, along one rain-slicked limb.
visits Noun UNKNOWN 3868 She had spent the four days of the storm alone - except for the regular visits of Quintall, who never seemed to get enough of her.
majority Noun UNKNOWN 3869 The majority of Tinson's residents slept the day through, preferring the revelry of the night.
conquest Noun UNKNOWN 3870 Images of conquest flooded Quintall's every thought.
formal Adjective B2 3871 The four monks were on deck when Bunkus Smealy informed them that they would have no formal duties that day, that they might go about their business.
certainty Noun UNKNOWN 3872 Avelyn knew with near certainty that this would be the last time he saw her, and likely the last time he'd see his father, as well.
sibling Noun UNKNOWN 3873 His next youngest sibling was seven years his senior, and so he wasn't really close to any of them.
senior Noun UNKNOWN 3874 His next youngest sibling was seven years his senior, and so he wasn't really close to any of them.
illuminated Verb UNKNOWN 3875 That image, that confirmation, was burned into Avelyn's thoughts as clearly as if it had been painted and magically illuminated on the inside of his eyelids.
illness Noun UNKNOWN 3876 The last few years had been hard on her, one illness after another.
selfish Adjective UNKNOWN 3877 The folk of Elkenbrook had never known such a huge gathering of goblins, could not conceive of the notion that the hateful, selfish creatures could ever band together in such numbers.
grinding Adjective UNKNOWN 3878 A grinding sound, the great gates sliding open, brought the young man from his contemplations.
unified Adjective UNKNOWN 3879 Now the creature saw the time to organize its forces fully; to begin its unified attacks.
unintentional Adjective UNKNOWN 3880 Avelyn heard the slaps of wood, the unintentional groans, even an occasional cry from the younger students near the front.
frail Adjective UNKNOWN 3881 He couldn't say that to frail Annalisa, he knew.
rack Verb UNKNOWN 3882 But his words hardly seemed to calm Thagraine; quite the opposite, the man, obviously racked with guilt paced all the more furiously, slapping his hands together repeatedly.
designs Noun UNKNOWN 3883 He came up fast on a pair of great bronze doors, inlaid with a myriad of designs and symbols.
overlapping Adjective UNKNOWN 3884 Suits of armor of various designs stood as silent sentinels, every type from the overlapping wooden plates of the ancient Behrenese to the strong metal-plate mail designed for Honce-the-Bear's Allheart Brigade, the personal guards of the King - whoever that might be at the moment.
figures Noun UNKNOWN 3885 Elbryan first noticed the ghostly figures moving through the mist as twilight descended.
tunic Noun UNKNOWN 3886 The shorter of the pair wore a light leather tunic and arm shields, metal sleeves hooked over the figure's thumbs and running from wrists to elbow.
specially Adverb UNKNOWN 3887 He had recently commissioned a specially designed saddle from the local leatherworker, and had made no secret that it was for Nightbird, payment for some work the ranger had done for him.
interlock Gerund UNKNOWN 3888 Its limbs were slender and long and its armor a silver shining coat of fine interlocking links.
ranking Noun UNKNOWN 3889 He calmed quickly, though, seeing that all of his classmates were similarly entranced and that the Father Abbot and the other ranking monks seemed not to care.
brotherhood Noun UNKNOWN 3890 I knew the purest contemplation, the release of physical boundaries, the brotherhood with all the universe.
idealistic Adjective UNKNOWN 3891 All that the gentle and idealistic young man wanted was to serve God, to foster peace, to heal, and to comfort.
hoard Noun UNKNOWN 3892 To Avelyn Desbris, nothing in all the world, not the treasures of a dragon's hoard, nor the powers of a king, could outweigh that accomplishment.
outweigh Verb UNKNOWN 3893 To Avelyn Desbris, nothing in all the world, not the treasures of a dragon's hoard, nor the powers of a king, could outweigh that accomplishment.
quieted Verb UNKNOWN 3894 CHAPTER 3 The Lingering Kiss Things quieted quickly in Dundalis.
troublesome Adjective UNKNOWN 3895 For the adults, the specter of the goblins brought a sobering wariness and then a troublesome distraction.
cautious Adjective UNKNOWN 3896 But even the great wound in the monster's belly fast closed, while Quintall's movements became more cautious, more dangerous.
rust Noun UNKNOWN 3897 Pony left Avelyn's side then, rusting to join with Elbryan.
counterpart Noun UNKNOWN 3898 Each of this group nodded respectfully at his younger counterparts as he passed them on the rim; some mentioned that Elbryan's patrols would serve as their vital liaison with the village proper.
colder Adjective UNKNOWN 3899 As each day slipped past - the weather growing a bit colder, the wind shifting more to the north - the twenty-five in Elbryan's group perfected their patrol routes.
perfected Verb UNKNOWN 3900 As each day slipped past - the weather growing a bit colder, the wind shifting more to the north - the twenty-five in Elbryan's group perfected their patrol routes.