Territory over which rule or control is exercised

Usage examples of demesne.

The player gains nothing by this, but neither does he lose much, for with this play the Demesne is changed, and the game moves elsewhere in the purlieu.

Think how this differs from a battle game between Armigers, for instance, where the Demesne grows very gradually from the first move of a Herald or Sentinel.

All our time was spent in learning to play, learning what moves could be made by which Gamesmen, what powers each had, what conditions influenced the move, how to determine where the edge of a Demesne would lie.

Chill Demesne would grow around us, blooming like a hideous flower with us at its center.

Shuddering, I circled the hill to measure the Demesne, keeping the chill upon my right hand, six hundred paces, more or less.

There was nothing for us to do but travel together, for the Bright Demesne, of the Wizard Himaggery lay south, the way we were going.

Three times we have lived in the Bright Demesne, and each time Dazzle has started up some such foolishness.

The next morning we left the Bright Demesne, and only then did I realize how strange a place it was.

The Demesne absolute of a Seer is small, a few paces across, and the power use is erratic.

The Demesne of a Shifter is very small but very intense, and it goes away quickly.

At the edges of the battle, beyond the Demesne, stolid files of pawns.

High Demesne stood upon one of the white cliffs over a cataract of water which spun its falling veil eternally into the gem-bright pools below.

And after that, lunch, and after that an audience with the High King who had decided, it seemed, that we were not intent on damage to himself or his Demesne I did not take to him as I had to Himaggery.

House was supplied from the High Demesne, unlike the Schooltown I had known with its own farms and merchants.

High Demesne, set at the top of a south sloping valley, a single white tower with some lower buildings clustered at its foot.