What is "archons"

Usage examples of "archons".

Nominally the downs came under the jurisdiction of the archons of Pastedion and Vardeth, who parcelled out land-grants to their supporters at whim, since the hawks and field-mice who lived there never bothered to argue about it.

As a further benefit, the archons and the laws were far, far away, so that a grant holder could live as he pleased, rather like a Deverry lord.

The archons of the various city-states had no desire to see a war fleet of blood-thirsty barbarians sailing their way on the excuse of rescuing some unjustly treated kinsman.

The archons will be duty-bound to investigate, and while they carry out their ponderous workings, we shall be reasonably safe.

Up in the hills to the east of town, the Hawkmaster and his two journeymen had taken shelter from the continual rains in a public caravanserai provided by the archons of Pastedion.

If the archons send for Brindemo, the Hawks will kill him, one way or another, if not in Myleton, then somewhere along the way.

Merely ordinary, about everyday things, with no connection to schemes, ops, hybrids, Archons or sudden death.

The melody is too subtle for our human ears, yet not only can the Archons hear it, but it is deadly to them.

There are many gods, demons, Archons, Tyrants, Forces, Sparks, Stars, and what the Christians call angels or archangels But they are not created by the Unique, they are an emanation of him.

They rode for about two hours, until, just at noon, they came to a stand of trees and a spring, deepened then lined with stone for the benefit of travellers by the archons of Ronaton, where they stopped to make an early camp to rest the horses and mule, who were still nervous and stable-weary from being in the ship.