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Usage examples of hoards.

But if sea serpents were something like undersea dragons, in that they believed in accumulating hoards of gold and gems, what Rrrnlf was saying made sense.

Later, the reasons for the edict were broadened as some noblemen became fabulously wealthy from manipulation of their hoards, starting wars or using spice to take economic and political action against other Houses.

All outlawed spice hoards not voluntarily surrendered will be rooted out, wherever they are, and the perpetrators punished severely.

Some noble families had voluntarily surrendered long-held spice hoards, at great cost to themselves, while others vehemently denied any involvement in contraband melange.

Some noble families had voluntarily surrendered long-held spice hoards, at great cost to themselves, while others vehe-mently denied any involvement in contraband melange.

Through the centuries the hoards that weren't declared to the Crown had been secretly melted down into anonymous gold ingots.

There are other hoards that have been found and melted and sold and hidden and buried and found and kept and passed from family to family.