Large mackerel with long pointed snout

Usage examples of cavalla.

He wore dark green cavalla trousers like a proper trooper, but his shirt was the loose linen of a Plainsman, immaculately clean.

Sirlofty himself was a well-schooled cavalla horse, needing no drill in battle kicks or fancy dressage, but I was green to such things, and learned as much from my mount as I did from Sergeant Duril.

I drew a cavalla sword, proud and straight, with a sturdy haft and dangling tassel.

I thrust my cavalla saber into my belt, spread my arms for balance, and stepped out onto the bronze path.

I redoubled my effort, not just at the fencing and cavalla techniques that I loved, but also on the academic studies that were my demons.

In one hand I gripped my new cavalla sword, sheathed in gleaming black leather.

Forty-two years before my eighteenth birthday, my father had mounted his cavalla horse and set out with his regiment for the frontier.

I had no idea what might come next but I desperately hoped it would be a cavalla horse of my own choosing.

Lady Grenalter and my mother had attended the same finishing school and had been cavalla wives together.

In the dim future, when I retired from the cavalla, I knew we would be welcomed home to Widevale, to finish raising our children here.

Our army and cavalla were little better, shunned and mocked when they abandoned their uniforms to become beggars, despised as cowards and incompetents if they chose to remain in the service of the king.

He began by blacking and polishing boots for cavalla officers, who seldom wore them anymore, for our former foes were the victors and there were no more battles in which honor might be reclaimed.

The king sent his cavalla forth with the commands not only to push the Plainspeople back, but also to set the boundaries anew and take new territory to replace that lost to the Landsingers.

King Troven altered the emphasis of his military, pouring men and money into the cavalla, the mounted troops descended from old knighthood, for he judged that force could best deal with the ever-mounted Plainspeople.

Flung into the foreign environment, he had proved himself a true soldier son, for he learned what he must know by doing it, and ignored the disdain of some of his fellows that he had come to the cavalla but was not descended from the old knighthood.