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- The consulate and Home Rule Council fatlined us three standard weeks ago with the news that the Time Tombs showed signs of opening.†
Part Prol. *consulate = a diplomat appointed by a government to live in a foreign country and help its citizens visiting that country; or the offices of that person and assistants
- The New Vatican had spent a fortune on fatline inquiries, but neither the colonial authorities nor the consulate in Keats had been able to locate the missing priest.†
Part 1
- I landed in Keats a month after your replacement had taken over at the consulate.†
Part 1
- My assumption was that the fiberplastic growers might tell me the truth even if they would have nothing to do with the consulate or Home Rule Authorities.†
Part 1
- His former aide had gained half a dozen years on the Consul, but the younger man still had the boyish smile, thin face, and thick red hair that had attracted every unmarried woman-annot a few married ones-on the consulate staff.†
Part 2
- Come with me back to the consulate.†
Part 2
- Will you come back to the consulate with me...at least in an advisory capacity?†
Part 2
- Sitting on the balcony at Cicero's, it was all too easy to fall back into the rhythms of a former life; he would drink until the early morning hours, watch the predawn meteor showers as the clouds cleared, and then stagger to his empty apartment near the market, going into the consulate four hours later showered, shaved, and seemingly human except for the blood in his eyes and the insane ache in his skull.†
Part 2
- During the undeclared war with the Free Miners in the Lambert Ring Territories, it was Lieutenant Kassad who led the surviving infantry troops and Marine guards in cutting through the bottom of the old asteroid bore shaft on Peregrine to evacuate the Hegemony consulate staff and citizens.†
Part 2
- So the first Sol and Sarai heard of their daughter's accident was when the Hegemony consulate on Parvati fatlined the college that Rachel had been injured, that she was stable but unconscious, and that she was being transferred from Parvati to the Web world of Renaissance Vector via medical torchship.†
Part 4
- A major development was the Hegemony Protectorate's decision to send along on that expedition a fatline transmitter for installation at the Hegemony consulate in Keats.†
Part 4
- The same pride that later allowed her to face down the angry mob of Separatists on the steps of the Hegemony consulate in South Tern and send them to their homes in shame.†
Part 6
- The Ousters contacted me through private fatline and I took a three weeks" leave from the Consulate, brought my ship down to an isolated place near the Sea of Grass, rendezvoused with their scoutship near the OOrt Cloud, picked up their agent-a woman named Andil-and a trio of technicians, and dropped down north of the Bridle Range, a few kilometers from the Tombs themselves.†
Part 6
Definitions:
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(consulate) the offices where a consul works; or a consul (a diplomat appointed by a government to live in a foreign country, help its citizens visiting that country, and protect its commercial interests there)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Consulate general references a building that serves a consul general (a high ranking consul).