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Usage examples of marfa.

So he didn't begrudge Marfa the tiny apartment at the top of the building, just so long as she kept the magical influences flowing steadily and used her powers to protect the building during the storm season.

During the last storm, Marfa had placed a magical ward on the threshold to keep uninvited people out.

From the corner of her eye, as she readied the teapot and mixed the herbs for tea, Marfa watched Katzy, to see what her opinion of the young man would be.

After he'd settled in to his new apartment, Marfa started inviting him up for tea once or twice a week.

If Marfa Petrovna Kopelnikova had anything to do with it, Michael would learn to use whatever power he possessed for good purposes.

Once, Marfa recalled, the lake had frozen solid, and when it had thawed in the spring the villagers had found it to be stocked full of tiny, silver fish.

Too bad he's not a girl, Marfa found herself thinking, for he would make a fine witch.

This wasn't news to Marfa, who could feel the elemental forces building in the air, swirling around the city like a great, invisible river, but she listened to the news reports anyway.

Michael stepped inside, then hesitated, his nervous glance flicking between Marfa and X.

Michael hesitated like a hunted rabbit, looking from X to Marfa and back again.

At the same moment, a huge bolt struck the building, and Marfa absorbed it without flinching, knowing that to those watching she must be surrounded by a sparkling blue aura of elemental magic.

Then he turned his face away from X, and Marfa rejoiced to see the youthful smile she had come to know well forming on his lips as his eyes met hers.

X had time to shake Michael once, twice, before Marfa, with a flick of her fingers, sent bolts of element scorching across the room, flinging the intruders down the stairs and slamming the door.

The sun had already set, when Nadia, supporting Marfa Strogoff, reached the banks of the Tom.

She found out Nadia and Marfa Strogoff, and passed the night in watching them.