What is "familiars"

Usage examples of "familiars".

When the doctor is a converso, as I am, and as others believe you are, familiars from the Inquisition may pull you from your bed in the middle of the night if you expose too much medical skill.

He taught Jaryd to recognize the reddish stem of hawksbalm, the roots of which mages used to heal the wounds or illnesses of their familiars, and the waxy, white berries of Parnesroot, which could be mashed for use in a healing poultice.

Even after their familiars are destroyed, the outlanders will retain their power!

Occasionally, they tore off pieces of the tender roasted meat and fed it to their familiars, but mostly they gorged themselves, until Jaryd wondered if he would ever be hungry again.

Accepting their meals from the birds, the two mages sent their familiars off again so that the creatures might feed themselves.

But on this night, crouched in the shadows between two shops, watching as Baden battled for his life against the strange mages and their enormous, ebony familiars, and then witnessing the Owl-Master's confrontation with Sartol, Orris found himself questioning his own judgment.

Their supplies of dried foods nearly depleted, the three mages sent their familiars to hunt for them.

Several people shouted for the immediate execution of the three traitors, and others demanded that they be stripped of their cerylls and familiars, and handed over to the people for swift, appropriate justice.

Nonetheless, as the two young mages sat in silence by the fire, roasting a pair of quail killed for them by their familiars, Jaryd felt himself growing edgy.

Nor could I fail to note how much money changed hands beneath the table between booksellers and the familiars, the tax collectors and merchants.

Some of these familiars had the reputation of being such zealots that they would refuse their own mother the mercy of the garret and let them burn slowly from the toes up.

There is no better way to destroy a man's life than to be dragged out of bed by familiars in the middle of the night.

Then came the familiars on horseback, in chivalry, finery, and armor, as if they were the highest knights of the land.

Nona has told me how they use familiars to spy on others, and that these creatures usually fly and seldom go out by night.

However, several birds maintained the pursuit: the familiars of the despots.