All 17 Uses
envoy
in
A Storm of Swords
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- Some years later, when Lord Farman of Faircastle grew truculent, Lord Tywin sent an envoy bearing a lute instead of a letter.†
p. 272.4 *envoy = representative sent on a mission
- Magister Illyrio can keep you safe while your dragons grow, and send secret envoys across the narrow sea on your behalf, to sound out the high lords for your cause.†
p. 320.5envoys = representatives sent on a mission
- Gerion gave him a gilded dagger with an ivory grip and a sapphire pommel for a wedding gift, and half the envoys who came to court tried to curry favor by presenting His Grace with jewel-encrusted knives and silver inlay swords.†
p. 435.6
- "I have no doubt that Lord Walder chose his envoys with care," she replied.†
p. 475.3
- The envoys from Yunkai arrived as the sun was going down; fifty men on magnificent black horses and one on a great white camel.†
p. 578.6
- It was full of gold coins, just as the envoy said.†
p. 579.8envoy = representative sent on a mission
- Golden marks spilled across the carpets as the envoy stumbled over the chest, shouting curses and beating at his arm until Whitebeard flung a flagon of water over him to douse the flames.†
p. 580.5
- "You swore I should have safe conduct!" the Yunkish envoy wailed.†
p. 580.6
- The lions will devour them unless ...Saan, I will require your fastest ships to carry envoys to the Iron Islands and White Harbor.†
p. 723.3envoys = representatives sent on a mission
- But this I know for a certainty—envoys and pardons will not serve you now, no more than leeches.†
p. 723.8
- I will see the envoy first.†
p. 982.3envoy = representative sent on a mission
- Her voice was guileless, yet the question plainly made the envoy anxious.†
p. 982.7
- Dany felt ill, but she knew she must not let the envoy see it.†
p. 982.9
- New levies have been raised and can be seen drilling outside the city walls, warships are being built, envoys have been sent to New Ghis and Volantis in the west, to make alliances and hire sell-swords.†
p. 983.2envoys = representatives sent on a mission
- The envoy looked at her unhappily.†
p. 983.5envoy = representative sent on a mission
- He asks that we send an envoy to him.†
p. 1013.1
- "He asked for an envoy, we are sending one," said Slynt.†
p. 1013.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(envoy) a representative sent on a mission -- often representing a government
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, envoy can reference a specific level of minister in the UK or a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry.