Le Sage's "Gil ___"

Usage examples of blas.

January, no one understood the significance of Blas trying to protect a young girl from obscure dangers.

When Thomas had turned forty, Arleon had granted him the living at Blas Lodge, a mellow old hunting house at the edge of the forest, north of Paddleways.

Thomas Blas had brought his young daughters to summer at his own house.

Gaultry and Mervion had cried many nights, remembering that long summer month at Blas Lodge and wondering what they had done that had convinced their father that they could have no place there.

Gilles and Anisia, married less than two months, had seemed young and frightened, full of childish trepidations, their mourning for Thomas Blas more a matter of alarm that they had been plunged into the charge of an isolated rural estate than of grief at his untimely death.

She would forge on to Blas Lodge, and hope to get there and have a little time to recover before having to face him.

Although he had exchanged his drab mourning clothes for the bright clothing of a landed gentleman, he looked younger than ever, less settled in his new role as master of Blas Lodge instead of more so.

The dark confusion of images that Thomas Blas had passed to Martin, suggested the death agony of emotionally unfinished business.

Chancellor and his frightening officer, Lord Issachar Dan, were taking Mervion Blas up to the Keyhole Chamber.

Either Mervion Blas had not wanted to go, or the Chancellor had not wanted to give her the choice.

She tried not to look at Mervion Blas, but she could not help but notice her, as she hung back so shyly from the torches.

She would make a perfect triplet to the Blas twins, cast in living gold.

And there, after some days jungle-scouting, Blas Ramos picked out a plot, giving wide berth to all privately owned land.

Not until the third year had Blas a harvest that would pay his living expenses and leave a bit to lay by toward buying another carabao.

May, when Blas toiled in the field busy with his ploughing, a prosperous-looking stranger came striding down upon him wearing a black face.