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Usage examples of chaplains.

He was a man of fortyone of the tribe of domestic chaplains who are so common in Italy --who, in return for keeping the accounts of the house, live with its master and mistress.

It was the custom of chaplains, in face of danger, to fast in the hope of being sent a vision from the stars that would save them and their comrades.

Blestar even maintained that many Forbish words had found their way into Wegan, but since they all had to do with fire and starsthings everybody knew about, but in which the chaplains claimed a special interestsensible people dismissed such notions as mere religious propaganda.

Wego seafarers took chaplains along much as they carried pickles: just in case.

In the meantime, several people had emerged from nearby houses and were gazing in wide-eyed astonishment at these chaplains making ready to disgrace their calling.

It was said that in the old days the chaplains denied that heat could come from any source except the sun, holding the stars to be cool because the spirits of the righteous dead departed thither after separating from the unrighteous in the moonwhose phases showed the division taking placeand that it had been the start of their decline when brave divers wearing capsutes under their mantles for a store of air reported that the sea-bed was warmer than the surface at this spot .

Already, though, as the chaplains bore witness, voices were being raised against Skilluck and his crew, blaming them for what was not in their control: bringing the wrong sort of seeds, not insisting on being given more creshban, wasting space on spyglasses and articles of metal instead of food.

For a while longer the fact that Skilluck and his comradessurviving on what they had stored during their season of good eating but otherwise, save mentally, in little better shape than anyone elsestruggled along the frost-rimed branchways to deliver doses of creshban, together with what scraps of fruit or leaf or funqi-pulp their exotic plantings on the pumptrees yielded, counted heavily in their favor, while the chaplains, who had disgraced themselves by their affray on the wharf, lost countenance.

Here, too, side by side in the same great camp, are half a dozen chaplains, representing half a dozen modes of religious belief.

And with short but menacing strides they marched into the snap of the gale before turning and confronting the chaplains anew.

VII For a while longer the fact that Skilluck and his comradessurviving on what they had stored during their season of good eating but otherwise, save mentally, in little better shape than anyone elsestruggled along the frost-rimed branchways to deliver doses of creshban, together with what scraps of fruit or leaf or funqi-pulp their exotic plantings on the pumptrees yielded, counted heavily in their favor, while the chaplains, who had disgraced themselves by their affray on the wharf, lost countenance.

Shortly thereafter the chaplains, whose duties included keeping track of the calendar, marked the usual date of spring.

Skilluck would have been deemed wicked by all the chaplains Wellearn had known, including Blestar, inasmuch as he often mocked and occasionally defied them.

Without her he would be like a dozen other chaplains he knew, drinking, chasing, sleeping around, doing their work perfunctorily, even well, but waiting for leave when they could drink away their loneliness or screw their brains out, usually with anyone who was available.

He was scheduled to attend a conference for chaplains in Thailand and then go on to Saigon.