All 23 Uses
citadel
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A Clash of Kings
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- He was a maester, trained and chained in the great Citadel of Oldtown.†
p. 2.2 *
- And yet ...and yet ...the comet burned even by day now, while pale grey steam rose from the hot vents of Dragonmont behind the castle, and yestermorn a white raven had brought word from the Citadel itself, word long-expected but no less fearful for all that, word of summer's end.†
p. 2.3
- Last year when he took ill, the Citadel had sent Pylos out from Oldtown, mere days before Lord Stannis had closed the isle ...to help him in his labors, it was said, but Cressen knew the truth.†
p. 2.8
- Grim places needed lightening, not solemnity, and Dragonstone was grim beyond a doubt, a lonely citadel in the wet waste surrounded by storm and salt, with the smoking shadow of the mountain at its back.†
p. 3.9
- It was the Valyrians who raised this citadel, and they had ways of shaping stone since lost to us.†
p. 4.8
- The white ravens fly only from the Citadel.†
p. 5.5
- Even Cressen had to admit the bird made an impressive sight, white as snow and larger than any hawk, with the bright black eyes that meant it was no mere albino, but a truebred white raven of the Citadel.†
p. 6.3
- The alchemists of Lys knew the way of it, though, and the Faceless Men of Braavos ...and the maesters of his order as well, though it was not something talked about beyond the walls of the Citadel.†
p. 21.2
- In the Citadel, it was simply called the strangler.†
p. 21.4
- Old he might be, yet he was still a maester of the Citadel.†
p. 24.8
- A maester of the Citadel must not be afraid.†
p. 28.8
- I found drawings of the faces in the trees, and a book about the tongue of the children of the forest ...works that even the Citadel doesn't have, scrolls from old Valyria, counts of the seasons written by maesters dead a thousand years ...†
p. 95.8
- He'd seen the harbinger that had come to Maester Aemon with word of summer's end, the great raven of the Citadel, white and silent as Ghost.†
p. 97.2
- Small wonder his grandfather packed him off to the Citadel.†
p. 104.1
- Aemon took his vows and left the Citadel to serve at some lordling's court ...until his royal uncle died without issue.†
p. 104.6
- He would gladly have killed the red woman for that, yet what chance would he have where a maester of the Citadel had failed?†
p. 147.1
- Once the maesters in their Citadel had proclaimed the first of autumn, wise men put away a portion of each harvest ...though how large a portion was a matter that seemed to require much talk.†
p. 251.1
- Once theirs had been a powerful guild, but in recent centuries the maesters of the Citadel had supplanted the alchemists almost everywhere.†
p. 308.6
- Tell me, does the Citadel approve of you bedding the serving wenches, Maester?†
p. 409.2
- He would need to find someone to tend the birds until the Citadel sent a man to replace Pycelle.†
p. 412.7
- A maester forges his chain in the Citadel of Oldtown.†
p. 441.2
- This signifies that I have studied what the Citadel calls the higher mysteries—magic, for want of a better word.†
p. 441.5
- I had a friend at the Citadel who could pull a rose out of your ear, but he was no more magical than I was.†
p. 441.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(citadel) a stronghold or fortress
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)