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Red: The Heroic Rescue
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- The Horde's attack had come from the canyon lands, through the Natalga Gap.†
Chpt 1 *horde = a large number
- The Horde never attacked in small numbers.†
Chpt 1
- Where Thomas and his army depended on superior speed and skill, the Horde had always depended on sheer numbers.†
Chpt 1
- One of his men could take out five of the Horde on any bad day, an advantage mitigated only by the fact that the Horde's army approached five hundred thousand strong.†
Chpt 1
- One of his men could take out five of the Horde on any bad day, an advantage mitigated only by the fact that the Horde's army approached five hundred thousand strong.†
Chpt 1
- This was the Horde army.†
Chpt 1
- The cut had been inflicted not by the Horde, but by her own brother, who'd fought her to assert his strength just a year ago.†
Chpt 1
- This was a new tactic for the Horde.†
Chpt 1
- To the west the desert ended in the same forested valley he'd protected from the Horde threat for the past fifteen years, ever since the boy had led them to the small paradise in the middle of the desert.†
Chpt 1
- A small number of Scabs had become Forest People over the years, but it was the unspoken practice of the Forest Guard to discourage Horde defections.†
Chpt 1
- There simply wasn't enough water for the Horde, who already numbered well over a million.†
Chpt 1
- Discouraging the Horde from bathing was not difficult.†
Chpt 1
- The Horde came again, this time with a larger force.†
Chpt 1
- For three years after, the Horde braved only the occasional skirmish, always to their own terrible demise.†
Chpt 1
- But the need to conquer the fertile forest land proved too strong for the swelling Horde.†
Chpt 1
- Some had begged Elyon to remember his promise to deliver them from the heart of evil, from the Horde's curse, in one stunning blow.†
Chpt 1
- The diseased Horde army was pouring into the canyons like whipped honey.†
Chpt 1
- And this time it would be as much their blood as the Horde's.†
Chpt 1
- The rest had children too, many children, in part to even odds with the Horde.†
Chpt 1
- Their varying shades of skin tone also distinguished them from the Horde, who were all white from the disease.†
Chpt 1
- Thomas stared out at the Horde.†
Chpt 1
- And how many to intercept these smaller bands of Horde that intend to distract us?†
Chpt 1
- It was a wonder that the Horde was subjecting itself to "Sir!"†
Chpt 3
- The Horde is attacking.†
Chpt 3
- That the Horde now had a new strategy.†
Chpt 3
- The Horde army rose into view, five hundred abreast at least, mounted on horses as pale as the desert sands.†
Chpt 3
- His main force was already ten yards ahead of him, flying for the Horde, and Thomas wouldn't allow them to reach the battle first.†
Chpt 3
- Immediately a roar ascended from the Horde, as if the drawn sword confirmed Thomas's otherwise dubious intentions.†
Chpt 3
- Not three years ago, under the guidance of Qurong, the Horde's cavalry never failed to suffer huge losses.†
Chpt 3
- He cleared the line of boulders in one long bound, slipped from his horse, and dropped to one knee in time to see the first barrage of arrows from the cliff arc silently into the Horde.†
Chpt 3
- The Horde army was temporarily trapped by a dam made of its own warriors.†
Chpt 3
- As soon as the enemy cleared the bodies and marched fresh horses up, twenty catapults along each cliff would begin to shower the Horde with boulders.†
Chpt 3
- The boulders stopped falling and the Horde cleared more bodies.†
Chpt 3
- At this rate the Horde would be through their lines in an hour.†
Chpt 3
- The Horde would reach his un-defended Middle Forest in under one day.†
Chpt 3
- To see the Horde's front lines, an observer might think that the Forest Guard was routing the enemy.†
Chpt 3
- He thrust an arm out toward the Horde now being pounded by boulders again.†
Chpt 3
- The Horde's druids might practice their magic, but when have we ever?†
Chpt 3
- The Horde druids were rumored to practice a magic that healed and deceived at once.†
Chpt 3
- The Horde is slicing my army to ribbons as we speak.†
Chpt 4
- Unfortunately, I'm in a battle with the Horde at this very moment that may end it all.†
Chpt 6
- That Elyon will bring down the Horde with one blow?†
Chpt 6
- As we speak I am leading what remains of my army, the Forest Guard, in a terrible battle against the Horde.†
Chpt 6
- We're casually discussing which explosive will best blow up this 'Horde' while breathing in the world's deadliest virus.†
Chpt 6
- Stall the Horde, and stall them hard.†
Chpt 6
- A group of straying Horde found him and mistook him for one of their own.†
Chpt 7
- But the memory of that terrible condition with which the Horde lived every day never left him.†
Chpt 7
- For the sake of Elyon, he and the Forest Guard had taken an oath to wipe the Horde from the earth or die in their attempt to do so.†
Chpt 7
- His designation of the Hordes as whores had become commonplace among the Forest Guard.†
Chpt 7hordes = large numbers
- If we leave now, we will have a half day start on the Horde because they won't march during the night.†
Chpt 7horde = a large number
Definitions:
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(1)
(horde) a very large number -- typically of people, animals, or insects on the move
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)