What is "farers"

Usage examples of "farers".

The Farers and the many smaller nonproductive fragments of this thoroughly fragmented culture are now the greater number, with the result that the Wandsmen, in the name of the Lords Protector, hold a third or more of the population in virtual slavery, to supply the rest.

If Irnan succeeded in her revolt, and other stable populations, those who supplied the food and commodities to support the vast army of Farers, should join with her in emigrating to freer worlds, all the dependants of the Lords Protector would be left destitute and the whole order would be destroyed.

Presumably, when they saw a small force attacking the Farers, they would make a sally to support it.

The Farers began to move, not as one man, but in groups, patches, swirls, until the whole of the mass was in motion.

The mass of Farers seemed to be clotting and compacting ahead, between him and the gate.

They fell upon the Farers with the ferocity of a long hatred, spilling blood into the fields as payment for the murdered grain.

Stark could make out straggling bands of Farers still on them, heading for Irnan.

With his ready-made mob of Farers, Gelmar, Chief Wandsman of Skeg, shut down the GU consulate and made Skeg a closed enclave which no foreigner might leave.

Gelmar and his Farers had done their best to kill him at Skeg before he could begin his search.

They whirled and beat, lashing hair and garments, pelting the Farers with leaves and twigs and heads of broken grain, chaff to sting and blind the eyes.

Bits of it shredded away, and the armed men moved through the chaos, smiting, until the shredding became a rout and the Farers were fleeing for the hills, leaving their dead in heaps amid the wreckage they had made.

And let word be sent among all the city-states that the Citadel has fallen, that the Lords Protector are human and vulnerable men, that we fight for our own freedom, and if they want to get the bloody Farers off their backs, they had better damned well join us!

Seven Hearths of Kheb would be a matter of interest to the Wandsmen on sight, and the Farers who had seen the troop at Tregad would pose too much of a threat.

It was impossible to provide accommodation for everyone, and the Farers preferred the streets in any case.

No one was turned away, though most of the adult inmates were Farers gone in years who had long ago abandoned home and family and so had nowhere else to go when their Faring days were over.