What is "tiers"

Usage examples of "tiers".

If there were no Tiers, what would happen to the marriage value of daughters and sons?

Connect that Web with all the others of all the Bloods and Tiers, and the world held together.

Everyone would be delineated more surely than even the Tiers had done.

The Wittes cordially loathed and refused to acknowledge these distant cousins, who during the War of The Tiers defiantly split from the main family, changed a vowel, were classified as Fourths, and continued to use the Witte colors of yellow and red to irritate their Blood relations.

You must remember, though, how much of our identity as a society is based on the success of the Bloods and Tiers in eliminating defects and diseases that run in families.

Proudest and most reactionary of Bloods, she hated the lower Tiers and had it not been impolitic would have hated Glenin for being the reason the system was abolished and the lower orders enfranchised.

Among Second Tiers, Rigge was the only one certifiably lacking traitorous ties.

Council abolished the system of Bloods and Tiers that long prevented many talented persons from holding office.

Camisoles and tap pants, old-fashioned chemises and bus tiers she made herself.

Council has abolished slavery, Bloods and Tiers, and a lot of the worst marriage and inheritance laws.

Everyone locked in place, Bloods and Tiers and Mageborns, according to the design of the Great Loom.

Powder-barrels in magazines, where there are no racks, should be placed on their sides, with their marked ends towards the alleys, three tiers high, or four tiers, if necessary, with small skids on the floor and between the several tiers of barrels, using chocks at intervals on the lower skids to prevent the barrels from rolling.

Three tiers of these tanks will require a height, in the clear, of about four feet eight inches.

The last three tiers of the tower were now wrapped in a mistreal or imaginary, none could fell.

It might have been the mist, or an effect of the glasslike construction material, but the city looked, from above, like a cluster of concentric gems, a crystal island, jewel-studded, rising up from the ocean, whose mirror surface repeated more and more faintly the shining tiers, right to the last, now barely visible, as if beneath the city lay its incandescent ruby skeleton.