All 43 Uses

citadel
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Inheritance, by Christopher Paolini
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The number and disposition of your troops; the state of your provisions; the locations of your supply trains; the manner in which you plan to lay siege to this citadel; Eragon and Saphira's duties, habits, and abilities; the Dauthdaert you acquired in Belatona; even the powers of the witch-child, Elva, whom you have kept by your side until but recently—all this I know, and more.†
Chpt 43
You knew you wouldn't make it out of the citadel.†
Chpt 48 *
His efforts culminated when he seemed to take her from the chamber to a dungeon cell elsewhere in the citadel, where she saw what appeared to be Eragon and Saphira bound in chains.†
Chpt 52
After a brief duel, Galbatorix fled—which she doubted he ever would do in reality—and then she, Eragon, and Saphira started to fight their way out of the citadel.†
Chpt 52
At the back of the cavelike recess underneath the shelf was an enormous citadel adorned with a profusion of towers and parapets.†
Chpt 58
The citadel rose high above the rest of the city, high enough that it almost scraped the underside of the shelf.†
Chpt 58
If we could somehow break off the overhang, we could crush the citadel and most of the city, he thought, but he deemed that unlikely, as thestone was too thick.†
Chpt 58
Saphira hastened her flight toward the citadel's massive gate.†
Chpt 62
The entrance to the citadel took the form of two giant black doors, which met in a point high above.†
Chpt 62
Whatever wards Galbatorix had placed on the citadel, the Dauthdaert ought to allow her to pass through them without harm, even as it had allowed her to cut open the sally port.†
Chpt 62
To his relief, nothing happened as Arya entered the citadel.†
Chpt 62
Eragon drew Brisingr and ran to the sally port, but he dared not cross the threshold of the citadel to join her, not yet.†
Chpt 62
In that fashion, they entered the citadel one by one.†
Chpt 62
In the distance, Thorn bellowed and flapped furiously, racing toward the citadel.†
Chpt 62
The entire citadel seemed to be watching them.†
Chpt 62
Soon afterward, Saphira—the real Saphira—appeared over the southern part of the wall as she flew toward the citadel, prompting cheers of relief from the Varden.†
Chpt 63
Then they heard Thorn roar with rage, and the red dragon appeared above the tops of the buildings, winging his way toward the citadel.†
Chpt 63
Clear the southern part of the city, then meet back up with us at the citadel.†
Chpt 65
Dread crawled through Roran as he saw rank after rank of soldiers march into the streets leading from the citadel, the rows of men brisk and orderly, their faces devoid of even the slightest hint of fear.†
Chpt 65
By the time Roran returned, the Varden had already cleared a third or more of the city and were fast approaching the citadel.†
Chpt 69
As the man trotted away, Roran frowned and looked over the peaked roofs of the houses toward the citadel at the base of the overhanging shelf.†
Chpt 69
Then another roar sounded from inside the citadel, and Roran thought he could make out other, fainter noises, although he was not sure what they were.†
Chpt 69
Throughout the area in front of the ruined gate, men, elves, dwarves, and Urgals paused and looked toward the citadel.†
Chpt 69
There's nothing we can do for them," said Roran, keeping his eyes fixed on the citadel.†
Chpt 69
The ground rumbled and shook; then the front of the citadel exploded outward in a wall of white and yellow flame so bright, Roran saw the bones within the archer's neck and head, his flesh like a red gooseberry held before a candle.†
Chpt 69
They helped each other off the ground, and Roran looked toward where the citadel had been.†
Chpt 69
Then he looked in the direction of the citadel again.†
Chpt 69
As they emerged from the citadel, the air cleared and Eragon was able to see the destruction that the blast had wreaked on Uru'baen.†
Chpt 70
The soldiers and servants from the citadel hurried to join them, giving Saphira and Thorn a wide berth as they ran across the courtyard in front of the fortress.†
Chpt 70
And she pointed at the people fleeing the citadel.†
Chpt 70
Eragon turned and saw Arya walking out of the dark maw of the citadel.†
Chpt 70
He had seen Saphira only twice since they landed back at the citadel after parting with Murtagh and Thorn.†
Chpt 71
The hill itself had helped contain the harmful residue from the explosion, although a large amount had still escaped through the entrance to the citadel, and most everyone who had been in or around Uru'baen needed healing with magic, else they would soonsicken and die.†
Chpt 71
At that very moment, the elves and the dwarves were walling up the front of the citadel to prevent any further contamination from seeping out.†
Chpt 71
The great store of treasures that lay within the citadel, including the contents of Galbatorix's vast library, would have to be retrieved at a later date.†
Chpt 71
Once the citadel was closed off, the elves would purge the city and the land thereabouts of the harmful residue that had settled upon it so that the area would again be safe to live in.†
Chpt 71
Off by the citadel came therapping of picks and chisels.†
Chpt 71
When Eragon and Saphira had returned to the citadel, Nasuada had been on the verge of collapse, from both mental and physical exhaustion.†
Chpt 71
Nasuada approached on foot from the direction of the ruined citadel.†
Chpt 72
Also, he was dismayed to learn that Arya had departed for Ellesmera, along with Dathedr and many of the other high elf lords, and that she had taken with her the green dragon egg they had found in the citadel.†
Chpt 73
Eragon also labored alongside the magicians of Du Vrangr Gata to empty the citadel of its treasures.†
Chpt 73
Nasuada put the trove of riches they recovered from the citadel to immediate use feeding and clothing her warriors, as well as rebuilding the defenses of the cities they had captured during their invasion of the Empire.†
Chpt 73
Eragon thought for a minute, then told her in brief about the attempts on Nasuada's life, the uprisings in the north and the south, the birth of Roran and Katrina's daughter, Roran's ennoblement, and the list of treasures they had recovered from within the citadel.†
Chpt 74

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(1) (citadel)
a stronghold or fortress
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citadel in Inheritance, by Christopher Paolini (Auto-generated)

citadel
in
Inheritance, by Christopher Paolini
(Auto-generated)