What is "farer"

Usage examples of "farer".

Refuge, where the Farer girls went to have their babes and leave them for the Wandsmen to rear.

It was a girlhe had known that, of course, from the toucha Farer, stark naked except for body-paint laid on in fanciful loops and spirals and her hair, which hung over her shoulders like a cloak.

They had endured because they had hopehope that all the suffering would lead to a better life on a new world, free of the oppressive rule of the Wandsmen and the burden of their army of Farer dependents, which grew larger with each generation.

These numbered fewer than a hundred, mostly stragglers from the great rout of the Farer army, and who because of fear or injuries had hidden in the hills instead of returning to Ged Darod with the bulk of the mob after the alien lightnings had barred their way to Irnan.

Pedrallon led the way swiftly, by streets that were almost deserted now, toward the Refuge, where the Farer girls came to have their babies and give them to the Wandsmen to rear.

Governor Pardonnet did his best, but he is not a farer of space nor a soldier.

Stark could make out straggling bands of Farers still on them, heading for Irnan.

The Farers and the many smaller nonproductive fragments of this thoroughly fragmented culture are now the greater number, with the result that the Wandsmen, in the name of the Lords Protector, hold a third or more of the population in virtual slavery, to supply the rest.

With his ready-made mob of Farers, Gelmar, Chief Wandsman of Skeg, shut down the GU consulate and made Skeg a closed enclave which no foreigner might leave.

Gelmar and his Farers had done their best to kill him at Skeg before he could begin his search.

If Irnan succeeded in her revolt, and other stable populations, those who supplied the food and commodities to support the vast army of Farers, should join with her in emigrating to freer worlds, all the dependants of the Lords Protector would be left destitute and the whole order would be destroyed.

Presumably, when they saw a small force attacking the Farers, they would make a sally to support it.

The Farers began to move, not as one man, but in groups, patches, swirls, until the whole of the mass was in motion.

They whirled and beat, lashing hair and garments, pelting the Farers with leaves and twigs and heads of broken grain, chaff to sting and blind the eyes.

The mass of Farers seemed to be clotting and compacting ahead, between him and the gate.