fastness

Example Sentences

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This Herbor came in the month of Grende to Thangering Fastness and said to the Weaver, “I seek a Foretelling.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

We walked under the hemmen-trees on the slopes above the Fastness, where there were no paths.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

An admirable outcome, were this world one Fastness of the Handdara, but alas we must walk forward troubling the new snow, proving and disproving, asking and answering.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Soon after this Therem left his Domain, saying that he wished to indwell at Rotherer Fastness for a time, and he did not return to Stok until a year had passed.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

At the door of the Round-Tower I was met by a person in white hieb and crimson shirt, with a silver chain over his shoulders: Faxe, the Foreteller of Otherhord Fastness.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin