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Usage examples of retainers.

Digen realized that Didi was a Sime out-Territory without retainers, and thus if Lankh chose to kill her like this, he was within the law.

Digen told himself, the retainers, the gleaming metal cuffs peeking from his sleeves, marking him as a Sime, attracted their curiosity, apprehension, even a little fear.

His frustration was partly due to need, but also to the injustice of a channel having to wear retainers, which immobilized his vital organs, making him virtually incapable of meeting his responsibilities.

Then gradually the strain of it all caught up with him, and between the sickening blur that the retainers made of his world and the even worse violence the moving train did to his senses, he felt suddenly and intensely ill.

Sime Territory, Digen stripped off the cumbersome retainers, freeing his tentacles and clearing his head.

But the interior construction of the retainers was designed to hinder all Sime movement, especially the removal of the retainers.

Gens during the Sime-Gen wars, retainers were meant to restrain Sime prisoners and to torture them into revealing military information.

Then he withdrew his handling tentacles and laid the retainers open on the desk to dry.

The skin under the retainers was flushed with the heat, and his laterals throbbed unmercifully.

One day he caught himself ostentatiously stripping off retainers in front of a group of nervous Gens waiting their turn.

Digen surrendered the two containers, the policeman who had been delivering the tirade saw his retainers and fell silent.

Digen slipped on his retainers, looking toward his patient as he did so.

Digen swore as one of the catches on his retainers jammed, slowing him down.

Even through the retainers, there was no mistaking the unfathomable depths of selyn hunger of a new channel.

She showed no sign that she knew or cared when the retainers, unable to endure the sight of their misery, stole out to barter furtively for food, or tore the bamboo from the rotting hedges and planks from the floor for the kitchen fires, or the wailing children made water in their grimy clothes.