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  • We had one more tune-up, which resulted in a win over The Citadel, and then we faced FSU again.†   (source)
  • =========================== O Seas of Caladan, O people of Duke Leto— Citadel of Leto fallen, Fallen forever ....—from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan Paul felt that all his past, every experience before this night, had become sand curling in an hourglass.†   (source)
  • She bent her head over her cocktail glass, disappearing for a moment, like some unprecedented turtle, behind the citadel of her hair.†   (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)
  • 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 lit another cigarette and looked out at the citadel next to Skeppsholmen.†   (source)
  • Their chief city was Osgiliath, Citadel of the Stars.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The citadel not of Quality, the citadel of form and substance.†   (source)
  • There was a picture of my grandfather in his Citadel uniform.†   (source)
  • Graduated from the Citadel, Mr. President.†   (source)
  • THEY HAD PLUCKED HER FROM the overt world without a ripple and smuggled her to their pastoral secret citadel.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • As soon as I graduated from The Citadel, I house-hunted in The Point area and there only.†   (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)
  • The New York Stock Exchange is a citadel of capitalism.
  • 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)
  • Besides, Aeolus, the King of the Winds, has sent his most powerful minions to guard the citadel.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • "Look at the citadel," said Brom, pointing.†   (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)
  • He took them through Teirm toward the citadel.†   (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)
  • Its citadel has never fallen, nor have its warriors ever been defeated.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • There are archmaesters at the Citadel who question all of it.†   (source)
  • "Surely Hodge taught you the proper method of approaching the Adamant Citadel," she said.†   (source)
  • Eragon turned and saw Arya walking out of the dark maw of the citadel.†   (source)
  • No complete copy was known to Westeros, however; even the Citadel's lacked twenty-seven scrolls.†   (source)
  • Whole battalions hurried toward the citadel at full speed.†   (source)
  • We heard what you did with that iratze, at the Citadel.†   (source)
  • Small wonder his grandfather packed him off to the Citadel.†   (source)
  • Jace had seen the Adamant Citadel before only in pictures.†   (source)
  • Tell me, does the Citadel approve of you bedding the serving wenches, Maester?†   (source)
  • They have parchment and ink at the Citadel, as well as longbows.†   (source)
  • The bridge that crossed the crevasse surrounding the Adamant Citadel was lined with knives.†   (source)
  • What brings the Night's Watch to the Citadel?†   (source)
  • Once everything's situated, you can go back inside the citadel.†   (source)
  • In that fashion, they entered the citadel one by one.†   (source)
  • Once, at the Citadel, I came into an empty room and saw an empty chair.†   (source)
  • There was a rending crack as the first reached 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)
  • Saphira hastened her flight toward the citadel's massive gate.†   (source)
  • The white ravens fly only from the Citadel.†   (source)
  • "If you ask the Citadel for more maesters "I mean to.†   (source)
  • "Your Citadel took away his chain," Cersei reminded him.†   (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)
  • You'll go to the Citadel and forge a chain, and if you have to cut up corpses, so be it.†   (source)
  • Elsewise, Aemon will find a servant's place for her at the Citadel.†   (source)
  • In the Citadel, it was simply called the strangler.†   (source)
  • Tugging on the reins, Max rode through the crowds along the ruin of the citadel walls.†   (source)
  • There's nothing we can do for them," said Roran, keeping his eyes fixed on the citadel.†   (source)
  • You shame the Citadel by being one of us?'†   (source)
  • The funeral rites for the Citadel dead are about to begin.†   (source)
  • My lord, the Citadel ...they make you cut up corpses there.†   (source)
  • They scoured the smoking hills and trampled plains until they fell upon the citadel.†   (source)
  • Old he might be, yet he was still a maester of the Citadel.†   (source)
  • Off by the citadel came therapping of picks and chisels.†   (source)
  • A maester forges his chain in the Citadel of Oldtown.†   (source)
  • In the distance, Thorn bellowed and flapped furiously, racing toward the citadel.†   (source)
  • You can face the Citadel, but you'll face it as a Sworn Brother of the Night's Watch.†   (source)
  • Clary burst out on the other side of the crowd and found herself beside the Citadel.†   (source)
  • "I know," Jaime said, "there has been a white raven from the Citadel.†   (source)
  • There are so many books at the Citadel that no man can hope to read them all.†   (source)
  • It was the Valyrians who raised this citadel, and they had ways of shaping stone since lost to us.†   (source)
  • Clear the southern part of the city, then meet back up with us at the citadel.†   (source)
  • You can face the Citadel, but you'll face it as a Sworn Brother of the Night's Watch.†   (source)
  • There were other stains, fanned across the Citadel wall, darkening the ground beneath—†   (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)
  • He would need to find someone to tend the birds until the Citadel sent a man to replace Pycelle.†   (source)
  • To his relief, nothing happened as Arya entered the citadel.†   (source)
  • Dany had taken to calling it Dragonstone, after the ancient citadel where she'd been born.†   (source)
  • Elsewise, Aemon will find a servant's place for her at the Citadel.†   (source)
  • A maester of the Citadel must not be afraid.†   (source)
  • "The Citadel is not what it was," complained the blond.†   (source)
  • "I didn't go to the Citadel for arms and armor," Sebastian sneered.†   (source)
  • They helped each other off the ground, and Roran looked toward where the citadel had been.†   (source)
  • There are so many books at the Citadel that no man can hope to read them all.†   (source)
  • The white ravens of the Citadel did not carry messages, as their dark cousins did.†   (source)
  • "We didn't have victories in London and at the Citadel, Lazlo," said Jia.†   (source)
  • Nasuada approached on foot from the direction of the ruined citadel.†   (source)
  • The key was old and heavy, made of black iron; supposedly it opened every door at the Citadel.†   (source)
  • And she pointed at the people fleeing the citadel.†   (source)
  • You were at the Burren, and the Citadel.†   (source)
  • One of the young Longfords was at the battle at the Citadel.†   (source)
  • The entrance to the citadel took the form of two giant black doors, which met in a point high above.†   (source)
  • The healers of the Citadel are the best in the Seven Kingdoms.†   (source)
  • It was his father who sent me to the Citadel.†   (source)
  • Her boots skidded on the snow as she darted toward the Citadel.†   (source)
  • The entire citadel seemed to be watching them.†   (source)
  • They were the worst-kept secret of the Citadel.†   (source)
  • Then he looked in the direction of the citadel again.†   (source)
  • "They'll stay inside the Citadel," Jace said.†   (source)
  • "But the attack on the Citadel," Lazlo protested.†   (source)
  • What does the Citadel teach concerning prophecy?†   (source)
  • Eragon also labored alongside the magicians of Du Vrangr Gata to empty the citadel of its treasures.†   (source)
  • A maester of the Citadel, chained and sworn, and Sworn Brother of the Night's Watch, ever faithful.†   (source)
  • She thought of his smirk when she'd mentioned the battle at the Citadel.†   (source)
  • The men who were at the Citadel when I was have been dead for fifty years.†   (source)
  • Then Helen showed up on our doorstep and told us you'd been injured in the Citadel battle.†   (source)
  • Sebastian didn't expect us to be watching for him at the Citadel.†   (source)
  • He hoped he still remembered the way to the Citadel.†   (source)
  • If you ask the Citadel for more maesters ...†   (source)
  • "The reason he attacked the Citadel was to gather information," said Jace.†   (source)
  • "You didn't break the walls of the Citadel," said Jace.†   (source)
  • Tell me, maester, was it at the Citadel that you learned to wring your hands and make excuses?†   (source)
  • I had understood that you were still confined to the Citadel for ...†   (source)
  • So they do not know of the Citadel, the representatives?†   (source)
  • You lost the battle at the Citadel, and you don't like to lose.†   (source)
  • First the Citadel, to present Jon's letters and tell them of Maester Aemon's death.†   (source)
  • Although, who knows what will happen, with the attack on the Citadel tonight.†   (source)
  • They have parchment and ink at the Citadel, as well as longbows.†   (source)
  • He was the head of the Mexico City Institute and had been at the Citadel battle.†   (source)
  • Yet somehow his feet turned back toward the Citadel.†   (source)
  • Vengeance for our victories in London and at 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)
  • "I nearly killed him at the Citadel—" That was not you.†   (source)
  • The Citadel took my chain, but they could not take my knowledge.†   (source)
  • Of the attacks on the Institutes, the Citadel, the representatives?†   (source)
  • "They were meant for the Citadel," he said, when Xhondo asked him what was wrong.†   (source)
  • Afterward King Aegon asked the Citadel to send a younger man.†   (source)
  • He would have killed them all and taken the Citadel most likely, if not for your face—†   (source)
  • My lord, the Citadel ...they make you cut up corpses there.†   (source)
  • You know, your mom took me to the Adamant Citadel with her.†   (source)
  • I assume there were rich pickings for you at the Adamant Citadel the other night.†   (source)
  • And like the green marble sphinxes that flanked the Citadel's main gate, Alleras had eyes of onyx.†   (source)
  • I will slay the Iron Sisters and the Silent Brothers in their citadels of stone and silence.†   (source)
  • And then a trumpet rang from the Citadel, and Denethor at last released the sortie.†   (source)
  • They came to see me on Parents' Day at The Citadel.†   (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)
  • 'They have gone up into the Citadel,' said Pippin.†   (source)
  • He lies now in great honour in the Citadel of Gondor.†   (source)
  • But he did not answer, and they bore him away up the winding road to the Citadel and his father.†   (source)
  • At the gate of the Citadel they found no guard.†   (source)
  • But you have broken your fast as well as any man in the Citadel, and with greater honour.†   (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)
  • Above the walls rose a citadel, and then a faceted lighthouse, which swept its hazy beam across the dark waters.†   (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)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The second part is calledTHE TWO TOWERS, since the events recounted in it are dominated by ORTHANC, the citadel of Saruman, and the fortress ofMINAS 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 the serving staff.†   (source)
  • Do not approach their citadel.†   (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)
  • 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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