magister

Example Sentences

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"Illyrio believes in no cause but Illyrio. Gluttons are greedy men as a rule, and magisters are devious. Illyrio Mopatis is both. What do you truly know of him?"

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

All those years of running from city to city one step ahead of the Usurper's knives, pleading for help from archons and princes and magisters, buying our food with flattery.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

It had been given to the khal by the magisters of Pentos, Illyrio told diem.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

"My fellow magisters have doubled the size of the city guard," Illyrio told them over platters of honey duck and orange snap peppers one night at the manse that had been Drogo's.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Such mechanics–thus may I call the magisters, because formerly the mechanics, inversely, were called magisters, and the upper master arch-magister–one should take into account as the best propaganda which bulky books can have.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul