Ancillary Justice — Vocabulary
Ann Leckie
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And their children did well when they took the aptitudes, and would continue to do so, as Lieutenant Skaaiat had said.†p.100.2alternate pages25 more

Using it, Commander Tiaund implied more than just that she expected Lieutenant Awn to follow regulations or etiquette.†p.173.6alternate pages15 more

Since we weren't speaking Radchaai I had to take gender into account—Strigan's language required it.†p.76.9alternate pages16 more

Seivarden straightened, indignant at the gesture, which was much ruder to a Radchaai than it was here.†p.226.5alternate pages14 more

"My response is ambiguous, I know," I said, making that placatory gesture Inspector Supervisor Skaaiat had already used.†p.279.7alternate pages12 more

The niece, however, had lost her parents during the annexation.†p.57.3alternate pages5 more

Your family has been paying some of that cost, however small.†p.64.2alternate pages5 more

The proprietor wouldn't want to lose the flier, just strand me alone in the middle of this plain of moss-streaked snow.†p.31.6alternate pages13 more

She and what Var ancillaries she had serving her had taken my engines, and breached the heat shield.†p.254.6alternate pages14 more

The omens had been cast, and their trajectories were straightforward, calculable, direct, and clear.†p.152.6alternate pages13 more

Directly ahead, along the street and across the Fore-Temple water, I could see myself where I stood in the plaza.†p.60.2alternate pages43 more

It wasn't a direct answer to her accusation, but I couldn't think of what would be a direct answer, that she would understand.†p.156.2alternate pages43 more

That look of betrayal on Jen Shinnan's face, plainly directed at Anaander Mianaai, had been obvious to everyone there.†p.144.1alternate pages43 more

And your estimate of the typical percentage of annexed populations who were made into ancillaries is excessive.†p.19.1alternate pages70 more

I made a pallet of blankets I found in Strigan's bedroom, then stripped Seivarden and laid her on it, and covered her with more blankets.p.40.5alternate pages10 more

I saw Lieutenant Issaaia react with an instant of ambivalence—the next line spoke of food offerings not made for the dead, and the junior lieutenant conceivably might have been criticizing Lieutenant Awn for not coming to supper the night before, or breakfast on time this morning.†p.176.3alternate pages4 more

Instead I had to negotiate for their return, or else let them stand as an invitation to further mutiny.†p.242.4alternate pages7 more

The hypothermia kit came with a very basic corrective, but only one, and only suitable for first aid.†p.5.5alternate pages5 more

It had piqued her curiosity yet further.p.76.3alternate pages1 more

Besides, even if ancillaries don't beat people, or take bribes, or rape, or shoot people out of pique—those people human troops shot ...a hundred years ago they'd have been stored in suspension for future use as ancillary segments.p.63.4alternate pages1 more