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  • GUIL: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean?†   (source)
  • The Petrovka looked like a corner of Petersburg in Moscow, with its matching houses on both sides of the street, the tastefully sculptured house entrances, the bookshop, the library, the cartographer's, the elegant tobacco shop, the excellent restaurant, its front door flanked by two gaslights in round frosted shades on massive brackets.†   (source)
  • The site describes itself as offering "urban cartography for global shopping experts."
  • We should proceed to the last door and find out if the Cartographer really is here.†   (source)
  • The peculiar cartographers who made this were not in the business of making things up!†   (source)
  • The Cartographer paused and looked up at John.†   (source)
  • "But without the Geographica," said Jack, "is there any reason to seek the Cartographer?"†   (source)
  • The Cartographer looked warily at John over the top of his glasses.†   (source)
  • "Umbugartis—unusual name for a king, but there's no accounting for taste," said the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • The Cartographer rubbed his pen on the blotter and looked up.†   (source)
  • The Cartographer lifted his spectacles and peered more closely at Bert.†   (source)
  • "You lot seem to have an awful time holding on to books, don't you?" said the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • The Cartographer held his gaze, then folded his arms and sighed.†   (source)
  • "There was one more door before the Cartographer's, remember?" said Charles.†   (source)
  • "About one thousand five hundred years, give or take," said the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • "Oh he has the Ring of Power, does he?" the Cartographer said, interrupting John.†   (source)
  • "Oh ho—even better," said the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • The Cartographer must be behind one of them.†   (source)
  • " "Don't correct your elders, boy," said the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • I don't think the Cartographer's behind this one."†   (source)
  • What may the Cartographer of Lost Places do for King Umbugartis?†   (source)
  • "The island where the Cartographer can be found is the largest in a chain of islands," he explained.†   (source)
  • "Pardon me," said the Cartographer, "but just how did you people get in here, anyway?"†   (source)
  • The conviction of the Cartographer and the strength of the Winter King?†   (source)
  • "Do come in, come in," the Cartographer said.†   (source)
  • With that, the Cartographer turned back to his map and continued to draw.†   (source)
  • The Cartographer's head lifted almost imperceptibly.†   (source)
  • "Interesting," said the Cartographer, "but I'll point it out again: You don't have the Geographica.†   (source)
  • "Probably," said the Cartographer, "but then the good events would have no flavor.†   (source)
  • The Cartographer rolled his eyes and sighed.†   (source)
  • The Cartographer hopped off of his chair and shuffled over to Artus.†   (source)
  • That means the next-to-last will be the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • "But then, the Cartographer said as much, didn't he?†   (source)
  • Sigurdsson," said the Cartographer when they mentioned the murder.†   (source)
  • The Cartographer turned to them and pushed his spectacles up onto his forehead.†   (source)
  • "I'm a little fuzzy on the details," said the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry I don't have anything for you to sit on," said the Cartographer as he resumed working.†   (source)
  • "Well then, they've got a decent start now, don't they?" said the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • "Oh, it hasn't been easy," said the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • "Remember what John told the Cartographer?" said Bert.†   (source)
  • Chapter Fifteen The Cartographer of Lost Places The room was expansive, but not overly so.†   (source)
  • The Cartographer's eyes widened, and he dropped his pen.†   (source)
  • "Remember what the Cartographer said about choices and consequences, Jack," said Bert.†   (source)
  • "It was called something like that, yes," the Cartographer said.†   (source)
  • The business of cartography has changed a lot since Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers invented Agloe.†   (source)
  • Cartographers create fictional landmarks, streets, and municipalities and place them obscurely into their maps.†   (source)
  • It took a team of cartographers, artists, and bookmakers a lifetime to create, and it's said that Perplexus Anomalous himself drew some of the maps.†   (source)
  • John continued to examine the Geographica, working through the extensive annotations dealing with the Cartographer's island.†   (source)
  • "No, no, no," said the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately," he added, "they are all for islands on the outer edges of the Archipelago, and will be of no use to us in finding the Cartographer."†   (source)
  • "You don't need the Geographica, because there is only one island in the Archipelago where he might summon the dragons," the Cartographer said.†   (source)
  • "That's not it," said the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • "No doubt about it—unless the Cartographer is behind the first door we open, we're in for a bit of a climb."†   (source)
  • John estimated that the Cartographer's island was maybe a full day's sail away, give or take a few hours.†   (source)
  • "Never mind," said the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • It was almost a thousand years after the Cartographer began to compile it that the first Caretaker took over.†   (source)
  • The Cartographer walked briskly back to his desk, took a seat, and, whistling a little tune, began working on another map.†   (source)
  • It must be taken," the dragon finished with a smoky exhalation, "to the Cartographer of Lost Places."†   (source)
  • "It'll be among the pages in the back, near the map to the Cartographer's island—if I'm right, this is one of the elder islands."†   (source)
  • The Cartographer sprinkled drying dust across the ink, rolled up the map, bound it with twine, and handed it to John.†   (source)
  • Are you going back to the Cartographer?†   (source)
  • In less than an hour, they had unloaded their supplies and were prepared to set sail for the Cartographer's island.†   (source)
  • When Artus and John rejoined them, Bert raised the question of how they would get from Byblos to the Cartographer's island.†   (source)
  • Unlike their ascent, which had been done in silence, the companions could not resist discussing the strangeness of the Cartographer as they descended.†   (source)
  • "It didn't make any sense to me then, but after Aven and I talked a little while ago, I remembered something similar the Cartographer said.†   (source)
  • "Remember," he continued, "this is one of the oldest places in the Archipelago, and the Cartographer is the one who created the Geographica.†   (source)
  • "Did he really?" said the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • There, in the center of the room, sketching at a carved wooden desk, was the Cartographer of Lost Places.†   (source)
  • And the Cartographer can't help us.†   (source)
  • "The Caretakers are always permitted to enter with the Imaginarium Geographica," said the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • The mist that obscured their view of the Cartographer's island was contained within the granite pillars.†   (source)
  • "I said to knock down the door or go away," said the Cartographer, "and I expected you to go away, because that door is impossible to knock down.†   (source)
  • That way, if it all goes badly and the world starts to be consumed in death and fire, you can't go around saying, 'It's the Cartographer's fault.†   (source)
  • The Cartographer, for all the legendary dross of rumor and mystique that surrounded him, was rather unremarkable in appearance.†   (source)
  • Charles and Bert started to come to John's defense, but he cut them off with a gesture and looked squarely at the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • The door they had determined to be the Cartographer's was the only one in the entire keep that had a keyhole.†   (source)
  • Safely aboard the White Dragon, they cast off from the shore and circled around to the other side of the island before they unrolled the Cartographer's map.†   (source)
  • "That," said the Cartographer, as his eyes glittered and a smile began to spread across his face, "is the first time I've heard you speak like a real Caretaker."†   (source)
  • Young man, I am the Cartographer.†   (source)
  • "According to this note—if my Italian is reliable enough," he said to himself as much as the others, "the place where we can find the Cartographer is an immense tower called the Keep of Time.†   (source)
  • The Cartographer looked at them.†   (source)
  • The Cartographer of Lost Places is entirely my own invention—but as with the rest, his origins lie in a supposition, and the clues to his true identity are there for careful enough readers.†   (source)
  • "We don't have any way to read all but the most basic maps and annotations in the Geographica—and with no way to translate the rest of the maps, we can never find our way to the Cartographer's island, even if he still really exists."†   (source)
  • Chapter Seventeen Hope and Despair The journey from the Cartographer's island to the Island at the Edge of the World was the most peaceful and least eventful passage they had experienced since the original voyage from London into the Archipelago.†   (source)
  • They heard the sound first, before the island came into view, and John was very grateful for the Cartographer's precise navigational instructions, for if they had approached the island at an angle just a few degrees less or more, the White Dragon would not have been able to resist the pull.†   (source)
  • "This is nearly the last room—if all of the other doorways led to points in the past, then it stands to reason that the Cartographer's room, there near the top, is constantly moving into the future, and the one above is in the future."†   (source)
  • Among her protégés was the cartographer De Blasiis (whose Maps of the New World was dedicated to the Marquesa de Montemayor amid the roars of the courtiers at Lima who read that she was the "admiration of her city and a rising sun in the West"); another was the scientist Azuarius whose treatise on the laws of hydraulics was suppressed by the Inquisition as being too exciting.†   (source)
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