What is "angevine"

Usage examples of "angevine".

Tanner knew that he went to see the woman Angevine, whom Tanner had not met, a servant or bodyguard for Captain Tintinnabulum.

In what little information he gave out, Tanner learned that Angevine had been press-ganged ten years ago.

It was these frequent glimmerings of the man underneath the childhood he was shucking that swept Angevine with true passion for him, that stained her vague parental warmth with something more hard and base and breathless.

He did not talk about Tanner Sack, or about Angevine, whose name had peppered his conversations recently.

After half an hour, Angevine motioned to Shekel, and he, well-practiced, stood behind her and scooped pieces of coke from the container behind her back into her boiler.

He soaked with the same sense of luxury that he once would have had for a hot bath, and he hoped that Angevine would understand his motivations.

It needed replacing, and with a curt warning to Angevine, and to the sound of her horrified yells, he began to dismantle it.

When the pressure built in her engine, and Angevine began to move, to feel the new reserves of power he had given her, to check on her fire and realize how much longer the coke was lasting, she recognized how much he had done for her.

When Angevine had seen it, her mouth and face had stiffened with anger.

And as she had left, while Shekel waited for her in the doorway, Angevine had rolled to Tanner and spoken to him quietly.

He was hunkered down in front of Angevine, thrusting his face and hands into the engines in her metal underparts.

Sometimes, when the eight were meeting, Angevine would put her ear flat against the wood and press hard, but she could only ever hear the occasional snatch of sound.

Some prey of theirs had done this to him long ago, Angevine came to understand.

Aum and Bellis and the Lovers, and Angevine fetched books or materials for him, from the library or from his hidden laboratory at the back of his ship.

When he spoke to Angevine about his experience the next day, she echoed Tanner Sack almost exactly.