What is "roke"

Usage examples of "roke".

Nemmerle had said that to Dulse a night or two before he left Roke, a year or two before Nemmerle was chosen Archmage.

Nemmerle waited for had come and gone of his own will, and what they had thought of him on Roke Dulse did not know.

Only Roke was clear of it: and to Roke he could not go, forbidden by the high, enwoven, ancient spells that kept the perilous island safe.

To Ged, however, it seemed a city, and not knowing where to go he asked the first townsman of Thwil he met where he would find the Warder of the School on Roke.

These creatures are found only on four southern isles of the Archipelago, Roke, Ensmer, Pody and Wathort.

DEAR UNCLE thank you for your letter come erly on p t o Thursday come at half past nothing baby sends her love and so do p t o I my roking horse has a sirrup broken isnt that a pity say yes or no good-bye from your loving MARGIE.

So it passed over Geath and over Serd, and crossed the straits of the Inmost Sea, and came within sight of Roke.

In a brazier-warmed antechamber, Collan cooled his heels in company with a goldsmith from Neele, four cloth merchants from Firrense, a netweaver from Sein-shir, a furrier from Tillin Lake, two inkmakers from Wyte Lynn Castle, and a mother-and-sons delegation from the Roke Castle Instrument Makers Guild.

He was sent with seven other boys across Roke Island to the farthest northmost cape, where stands the Isolate Tower.

A student who showed a gift for sorcery and was sent to Roke for training would first study the high arts of sorcery, and if successful in them might pursue his training in the art magic, especially in naming, summoning, and patterning, and so become a wizard.

Nobody on Roke starved or went unhoused, though nobody had much more than they needed.

So he came in the wet dusk past Roke Knoll, and saw bright werelights playing in the rain over the roofs of the Great House, and he entered there and was welcomed by his Masters and companions in the firelit hall.

The King's Own Astrographer, Captain Tars Roke, came from the curtains behind the dais and stood beside the Crown.

Maintaining Roke as a strong centralising, normalising, pacific element in Archipelagan society, the archmages sent out sorcerers and wizards trained to understand the ethical practice of magic and to protect communities from drought, plague, invaders, dragons, and the unscrupulous use of their art.

The most active branches are the Consistorial Court of Discipline and the Society of the Work of the Holy Spirit, and," said Lord Roke, "I have spies in both of them.