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  • The citadel not of Quality, the citadel of form and substance.†   (source)
  • The word means 'citadel'—or more precisely, 'the city on the hill.'†   (source)
  • And here, in one of the most impoverished, diseased, eroded, and famished regions of Haiti, there was this lovely walled citadel, Zanmi Lasante.†   (source)
  • She bent her head over her cocktail glass, disappearing for a moment, like some unprecedented turtle, behind the citadel of her hair.†   (source)
  • Their chief city was Osgiliath, Citadel of the Stars. through the midst of which the River flowed.†   (source)
  • There were the honeysuckle and the roses, and the glimpse of Corinthian columns against the stars; and outside the gate were dreamy streets, other mansions …. it was a citadel of grace.†   (source)
  • The darkness hid the scars and bruises of the city well; it looked peaceful under the night sky—if one didn't look up at Gard Hill and the ruined outline of the citadel.†   (source)
  • The British still held Charlestown, which was largely in ruins, and Bunker Hill, which was their citadel and a formidable advantage.†   (source)
  • She lit another cigarette and looked out at the citadel next to Skeppsholmen.†   (source)
  • This house is large and very fine, set into the wall of the citadel, high on the mount that rises sharply behind the wide arc of the gulf.†   (source)
  • We had one more tune-up, which resulted in a win over The Citadel, and then we faced FSU again.†   (source)
  • The citadel walls and fortifications protecting Old College loomed behind them, white and gleaming beneath the moon.†   (source)
  • Douglas Brinkley writes, "Downtowns which used to consist of one ugly skyscraper surrounded by 200,000 Baptists are now glitzy, multi-towered citadels, show-casing the buildings of such world-class architects as Philip Johnson, I. M. Pei, and Richard Meier."†   (source)
  • There was a picture of my grandfather in his Citadel uniform.†   (source)
  • THEY HAD PLUCKED HER FROM the overt world without a ripple and smuggled her to their pastoral secret citadel.†   (source)
  • Graduated from the Citadel, Mr. President.†   (source)
  • Now, it appeared shabby and outmoded compared with the long, low, antiseptic citadels of glass, metal, and tinted block constructed by rich Northerners who for the past fifteen years had been "discovering" the Timucuan River.†   (source)
  • As soon as I graduated from The Citadel, I house-hunted in The Point area and there only.†   (source)
  • With heart at rest I climbed the citadel's Steep height, and saw the city as from a tower, Hospital, brothel, prison, and such hells, Where evil comes up softly like a flower.†   (source)
  • Although Mary hated him for it, considering he was a fool, it was the only thing in him she still respected: he might be a failure and a weakling, but over this, the last citadel of his pride, he was immovable.†   (source)
  • Every time she retired to her citadel of dreams she came forth radiant and refreshed, as one who has seen the evening star, or heard sweet music, or smelled the rose of joy.   (source)
  • The New York Stock Exchange is a citadel of capitalism.
  • Incredibly, though, not even a citadel of this magnitude could dwarf the piazza before it.†   (source)
  • The godswood was empty, as it always was here in this citadel of the southron gods.†   (source)
  • He took them through Teirm toward the citadel.†   (source)
  • Tell me, why is Vatican City a walled citadel?†   (source)
  • The walled citadel of Saint-Malo blooms out of the distance.†   (source)
  • A squat citadel with a giant, neon equal-armed cross emblazoned atop its facade.†   (source)
  • Burn his way out of this citadel, out of this siege, out of this disease.†   (source)
  • Its citadel has never fallen, nor have its warriors ever been defeated.†   (source)
  • "Only a maester of the Citadel, bound in service to Castle Black and the Night's Watch.†   (source)
  • The circular citadel shot skyward 107 feet to the bronze angel above.†   (source)
  • Guns boom to the east: the citadel being bombarded again, the citadel bombarding back.†   (source)
  • "Look at the citadel," said Brom, pointing.†   (source)
  • Those next to the citadel were tallest of all, though insignificant compared to the fortress.†   (source)
  • He was a maester, trained and chained in the great Citadel of Oldtown.†   (source)
  • There are archmaesters at the Citadel who question all of it.†   (source)
  • "You have four people to storm the giant's citadel!†   (source)
  • Others cut their way back towards the citadel.†   (source)
  • Besides, Aeolus, the King of the Winds, has sent his most powerful minions to guard the citadel.†   (source)
  • Only female Shadowhunters can enter the Adamant Citadel.†   (source)
  • You knew you wouldn't make it out of the citadel.†   (source)
  • So Varys has little birds in the Citadel too.†   (source)
  • The key was old and heavy, made of black iron; supposedly it opened every door at the Citadel.†   (source)
  • "Surely Hodge taught you the proper method of approaching the Adamant Citadel," she said.†   (source)
  • Saphira hastened her flight toward the citadel's massive gate.†   (source)
  • Elsewise, Aemon will find a servant's place for her at the Citadel."†   (source)
  • There was a rending crack as the first reached the citadel.†   (source)
  • We heard what you did with that iratze, at the Citadel.†   (source)
  • Old he might be, yet he was still a maester of the Citadel.†   (source)
  • Jace had seen the Adamant Citadel before only in pictures.†   (source)
  • Small wonder his grandfather packed him off to the Citadel.†   (source)
  • You'll go to the Citadel and forge a chain, and if you have to cut up corpses, so be it.†   (source)
  • The bridge that crossed the crevasse surrounding the Adamant Citadel was lined with knives.†   (source)
  • If you ask the Citadel for more maesters ….†   (source)
  • Tugging on the reins, Max rode through the crowds along the ruin of the citadel walls.†   (source)
  • And she pointed at the people fleeing the citadel.†   (source)
  • Once, at the Citadel, I came into an empty room and saw an empty chair.†   (source)
  • Once everything's situated, you can go back inside the citadel.†   (source)
  • He has a fond hope that your father will force the Citadel to give him back his chain, in gratitude.†   (source)
  • You cannot open a Portal to the Adamant Citadel unless the Iron Sisters allow it.†   (source)
  • In the distance, Thorn bellowed and flapped furiously, racing toward the citadel.†   (source)
  • In the Citadel, it was simply called the strangler.†   (source)
  • No complete copy was known to Westeros, however; even the Citadel's lacked twenty-seven scrolls.†   (source)
  • Yet somehow his feet turned back toward the Citadel.†   (source)
  • When I was a boy at the Citadel, my teachers named it simply the strangler.†   (source)
  • He shouldn't even be able to get that close to the Citadel."†   (source)
  • The white ravens of the Citadel did not carry messages, as their dark cousins did.†   (source)
  • You shame the Citadel by being one of us?†   (source)
  • A maester forges his chain in the Citadel of Oldtown.†   (source)
  • Whole battalions hurried toward the citadel at full speed.†   (source)
  • The entrance to the citadel took the form of two giant black doors, which met in a point high above.†   (source)
  • "What brings the Night's Watch to the Citadel?"†   (source)
  • The funeral rites for the Citadel dead are about to begin.†   (source)
  • There are so many books at the Citadel that no man can hope to read them all.†   (source)
  • They scoured the smoking hills and trampled plains until they fell upon the citadel.†   (source)
  • He would need to find someone to tend the birds until the Citadel sent a man to replace Pycelle.†   (source)
  • There's nothing we can do for them," said Roran, keeping his eyes fixed on the citadel.†   (source)
  • The white ravens fly only from the Citadel.†   (source)
  • The entire citadel seemed to be watching them.†   (source)
  • My lord, the Citadel …. they make you cut up corpses there.†   (source)
  • Clary burst out on the other side of the crowd and found herself beside the Citadel.†   (source)
  • I had understood that you were still confined to the Citadel for ….†   (source)
  • "If you ask the Citadel for more maesters "I mean to.†   (source)
  • A maester of the Citadel must not be afraid.†   (source)
  • They helped each other off the ground, and Roran looked toward where the citadel had been.†   (source)
  • Instead his talk turned back to Oldtown, and the archmaesters of the Citadel.†   (source)
  • "Sebastian attacked the Adamant Citadel," said Raphael, moving around a tight knot of Shadowhunters.†   (source)
  • Afterward King Aegon asked the Citadel to send a younger man.†   (source)
  • "I didn't go to the Citadel for arms and armor," Sebastian sneered.†   (source)
  • Tell me, does the Citadel approve of you bedding the serving wenches, Maester?†   (source)
  • Off by the citadel came therapping of picks and chisels.†   (source)
  • You can face the Citadel, but you'll face it as a Sworn Brother of the Night's Watch.†   (source)
  • Dany had taken to calling it Dragonstone, after the ancient citadel where she'd been born.†   (source)
  • It was the Valyrians who raised this citadel, and they had ways of shaping stone since lost to us.†   (source)
  • You'll go to the Citadel and forge a chain, and if you have to cut up corpses, so be it.†   (source)
  • "We didn't have victories in London and at the Citadel, Lazlo," said Jia.†   (source)
  • Clear the southern part of the city, then meet back up with us at the citadel.†   (source)
  • It was his father who sent me to the Citadel.†   (source)
  • They have parchment and ink at the Citadel, as well as longbows.†   (source)
  • You were at the Burren, and the Citadel.†   (source)
  • Then he looked in the direction of the citadel again.†   (source)
  • There are archmaesters at the Citadel who question all of it.†   (source)
  • To his relief, nothing happened as Arya entered the citadel.†   (source)
  • One of the young Longfords was at the battle at the Citadel.†   (source)
  • Her boots skidded on the snow as she darted toward the Citadel.†   (source)
  • Eragon turned and saw Arya walking out of the dark maw of the citadel.†   (source)
  • The Citadel took my chain, but they could not take my knowledge.†   (source)
  • There are so many books at the Citadel that no man can hope to read them all.†   (source)
  • "They'll stay inside the Citadel," Jace said.†   (source)
  • Nasuada approached on foot from the direction of the ruined citadel.†   (source)
  • They have parchment and ink at the Citadel, as well as longbows.†   (source)
  • Eragon also labored alongside the magicians of Du Vrangr Gata to empty the citadel of its treasures.†   (source)
  • "But the attack on the Citadel," Lazlo protested.†   (source)
  • She thought of his smirk when she'd mentioned the battle at the Citadel.†   (source)
  • You can face the Citadel, but you'll face it as a Sworn Brother of the Night's Watch.†   (source)
  • In that fashion, they entered the citadel one by one.†   (source)
  • Elsewise, Aemon will find a servant's place for her at the Citadel."†   (source)
  • Then Helen showed up on our doorstep and told us you'd been injured in the Citadel battle.†   (source)
  • A maester of the Citadel, chained and sworn, and Sworn Brother of the Night's Watch, ever faithful.†   (source)
  • Sebastian didn't expect us to be watching for him at the Citadel.†   (source)
  • "The reason he attacked the Citadel was to gather information," said Jace.†   (source)
  • What does the Citadel teach concerning prophecy?†   (source)
  • "I know," Jaime said, "there has been a white raven from the Citadel.†   (source)
  • "You didn't break the walls of the Citadel," said Jace.†   (source)
  • So they do not know of the Citadel, the representatives?†   (source)
  • And like the green marble sphinxes that flanked the Citadel's main gate, Alleras had eyes of onyx.†   (source)
  • "The Citadel is not what it was," complained the blond.†   (source)
  • You lost the battle at the Citadel, and you don't like to lose."†   (source)
  • Although, who knows what will happen, with the attack on the Citadel tonight.†   (source)
  • "They were meant for the Citadel," he said, when Xhondo asked him what was wrong.†   (source)
  • He was the head of the Mexico City Institute and had been at the Citadel battle.†   (source)
  • "First the Citadel, to present Jon's letters and tell them of Maester Aemon's death.†   (source)
  • Vengeance for our victories in London and at the Citadel.†   (source)
  • They were the worst-kept secret of the Citadel.†   (source)
  • Of the attacks on the Institutes, the Citadel, the representatives?†   (source)
  • Tell me, maester, was it at the Citadel that you learned to wring your hands and make excuses?†   (source)
  • He would have killed them all and taken the Citadel most likely, if not for your face—†   (source)
  • The men who were at the Citadel when I was have been dead for fifty years.†   (source)
  • You know, your mom took me to the Adamant Citadel with her.†   (source)
  • My lord, the Citadel …. they make you cut up corpses there.†   (source)
  • "Your Citadel took away his chain," Cersei reminded him.†   (source)
  • I assume there were rich pickings for you at the Adamant Citadel the other night.†   (source)
  • I was a boy in Oldtown when the grey plague took half the city and three-quarters of the Citadel.†   (source)
  • I will slay the Iron Sisters and the Silent Brothers in their citadels of stone and silence.†   (source)
  • He hoped he still remembered the way to the Citadel.†   (source)
  • The healers of the Citadel are the best in the Seven Kingdoms.†   (source)
  • But you have broken your fast as well as any man in the Citadel, and with greater honour.†   (source)
  • They came to see me on Parents' Day at The Citadel.†   (source)
  • And then a trumpet rang from the Citadel, and Denethor at last released the sortie.†   (source)
  • But he did not answer, and they bore him away up the winding road to the Citadel and his father.†   (source)
  • 'They have gone up into the Citadel,' said Pippin.†   (source)
  • At the gate of the Citadel they found no guard.†   (source)
  • He lies now in great honour in the Citadel of Gondor.†   (source)
  • 'Go to the armouries of the Citadel,' he said, 'and get you there the livery and gear of the Tower.†   (source)
  • They parted and Pippin hurried back towards the citadel.†   (source)
  • Herat was visible from here, spread below her like a child's board game: the Women's Garden to the north of the city, Char-suq Bazaar and the ruins of Alexander the Great's old citadel to the south.†   (source)
  • He joined Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and took up position near Bala Hissar, the old citadel walls that loomed over the city from the Koh-e-Shirdawaza mountains.†   (source)
  • In addition to being the Pope's summer vacation home, the sixteenth-century citadel housed the Specula Vaticana—the Vatican Observatory—one of the most advanced astronomical observatories in Europe.†   (source)
  • He sprinted toward the bastion, running on fumes, gazing upward at the citadel's circular core as it shot skyward to a gargantuan, sword-wielding angel.†   (source)
  • "Only a man trained in the Citadel of Oldtown wears such a chain," he said, "and such men do know much of healing."†   (source)
  • Food comes irregularly, carried out from the citadel by the guardian's wife across the quarter mile of rocks at low tide while shells explode in the city behind her.†   (source)
  • I can teach you to measure the days and mark the seasons, and at the Citadel in Oldtown they can teach you a thousand things more.†   (source)
  • Soon the sun is above the horizon and the orange of flames gives way to the black of smoke, rising along the western walls and blowing like a caul across the citadel.†   (source)
  • Above the wall-and set against its northeast section-rose a huge citadel built of giant stones and turrets.†   (source)
  • There were fools, even in the Citadel, who took that to mean that the Great Summer had come at last, the summer that never ends, but in the seventh year it broke suddenly, and we had a short autumn and a terrible long winter.†   (source)
  • In the center of the complex rose a citadel larger than Grand Central Station, its walls encrusted with pearls, its domed golden roof cracked open like an egg.†   (source)
  • Above the walls rose a citadel, and then a faceted lighthouse, which swept its hazy beam across the dark waters.†   (source)
  • Davos could see the shape of the mountain now, and on its side the great black citadel with its gargoyles and dragon towers.†   (source)
  • We may have no idea how to kill Galbatorix himself, but until we batter down the gates of his citadel in Uru'baen, or until he chooses to fly out on Shruikan and confront us on the field of battle, nothing shall stop us.†   (source)
  • "I am no thief," he had told the man who called himself the alchemist, "I am a novice of the Citadel."†   (source)
  • A pity for the Nephilim that they have no more favors they can ask of Heaven, and none of the puny instruments of war they forge in their Adamant Citadel can harm me now.†   (source)
  • As commander of the "Army of Observation," encamped at the American citadel on Prospect Hill, he tried to take in everything, to observe and appraise the situation as realistically as possible.†   (source)
  • Aragorn now passed into the citadel.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, he seems content to wait for us to slaughter our way to the gates of his citadel in Uru'baen.†   (source)
  • As they walked, Roran studied the layout of the city with its fortified houses-which grew progressively higher toward the citadel-and the gridlike arrangement of streets.†   (source)
  • _ _The second part is called_THE TWO TOWERS_, since the events recounted in it are dominated by_ORTHANC_, the citadel of Saruman, and the fortress of_MINAS MORGUL_ that guards the secret entrance to Mordor; it tells of the deeds and perils of all the members of the now sundered fellowship, until the coming of the Great Darkness.†   (source)
  • Before I went to the Varden with the information concerning the secret passageway into Castle Ilirea-which the elves built millennia ago and which Galbatorix expanded upon to form the black citadel that now dominates Uru'baen-before I went to them, Brom had spent a rather significant length of time spying on Morzan's estate in the hope he might unearth a hitherto unsuspected weakness of Morzan's…… I believe Brom gained admittance to Morzan's hall by disguising himself as a member of…†   (source)
  • The rambling citadel was protected by three concentric layers of walls, numerous towers, and, Eragon noted, hundreds of ballistae made for shooting down a dragon.†   (source)
  • Do not approach their citadel.†   (source)
  • Those north to south radiated from the citadel like a starburst, while those east to west curved gently across and formed a spiderweb pattern, creating numerous places where barriers could be erected and soldiers stationed.†   (source)
  • "The Adamant Citadel," said Jocelyn.†   (source)
  • This was Orthanc, the citadel of Saruman, the name of which had (by design or chance) a twofold meaning; for in the Elvish speech orthanc signifies Mount Fang, but in the language of the Mark of old the Cunning Mind.†   (source)
  • "As with the Silent City, there is only one Adamant Citadel, but there are many doors through which one may find it," said Magnus.†   (source)
  • The house-or rather, mansion-was set on the west side of Teirm, close to the citadel, among scores of other opulent buildings embellished with fine scrollwork, wrought-iron gates, statues, and gushing fountains.†   (source)
  • Even as far as Oldtown and the Citadel the ravens flew, and to half a hundred mighty lords in their castles.†   (source)
  • And Jocelyn says she's been there before; she can help guide you once we Portal you to the edge of the wards around the Adamant Citadel.†   (source)
  • The legends surrounding the Adamant Citadel made it sound like a forbidding, distant place, and the Iron Sisters were seen far more rarely than the Silent Brothers.†   (source)
  • Would the Citadel have preferred that?†   (source)
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