Short stalks

Usage examples of stipes.

As an apology the words might seem lacking, but they were said with enough fervor to earn Stipes a nod of acceptance.

Resting on the long porch that fronted the barracks, Stipes waved a cheerful arm for him to join them, which Bixei accepted with just a fleeting glint of resentment in his eyes.

He returned with four hardened gladiators, Stipes among them, and took his place again in front of his class.

Radi-mus and Stipes and others from his bachelor group and dinner bench.

He laughed quickly enough that his companions took the blush for embarrassment, except for Stipes, whose sharp gaze seemed to be looking for a chink in the face Llesho wore.

It surprised him a bit until Stipes passed him a small loaf of bread instead of his trident.

Bixei started to ask the question, but stopped, frowning, when Stipes increased the pressure on his shoulder.

Then he took up his own weapon and followed Stipes into the practice yard.

Llesho would have shared his own plate with his sometime enemy, but Stipes already carried an extra for his partner.

Llesho whispered to Stipes in the frozen silence that followed, but it was Master Jaks who answered the question.

Yueh had purchased Stipes for the arena, but he would use every trained fighter he had to invade Thousand Lakes Province.

Master Jaks must know the story, and Habiba, if they had permitted the gladiator to join them, but Llesho looked to Stipes, who had been there, to tell it.

Master Jaks was his teacher, and he had trusted the man just as Stipes had.

Jaks was not to be found, and Habiba, riding at the head of the line of soldiers with Stipes at his flank, greeted him with a polite nod, and a sympathetic smile that for some reason made Llesho even angrier than he was already.

He had not gone far, however, when Stipes caught up with him, a wrathful glare on his face, and a sharp word on his tongue.