What is "lieutenants"

Usage examples of "lieutenants".

But Gorvi was Gorvi, and having detected strangers on the boulder plains, he'd sent his lieutenants to investigate while he stood off.

He saw the vampire lieutenants closing with the boulder clump, saw them hurl themselves headlong in superhuman dives up over the protective rock barrier .

Their masters, lieutenants and senior thralls had dismounted and went afoot like infantrymen, shadowing and directing the battle-engines which were the warriors.

Likewise the lives of his thralls, be they fledgling vampires or lieutenants alike: austere.

As for his 'pups', his bloodsons, lieutenants, thralls: oh, they were men - despite the taint of their master's animalism - but Canker himself was magnificent!

Wratha and her chiefest lieutenants would come down on foot out of Wrathspire, and the dog-Lord and his whelps were well-acquainted with the way up from Mangemanse (though in fact Nestor knew they would come by flyer, and late, of course, in order that Canker could make his entry in accustomed style).

A landing-bay must be made ready, with lieutenants and thralls in attendance to handle the flyers.

As leader of the pack - patriarchal, as it was - all of the dog-Lords's thralls and lieutenants were his 'pups', of course.

And finally the Necroscope located himself at the head of the column of flyers, so that he would be the first to note any retreat of the lieutenants from their front-line positions.

As the Wamphyri and their creatures, thralls, lieutenants took pleasure in destroying men, so he could rejoice in destroying them.

Those who are left are mainly lieutenants, but they are the most dangerous.

After she'd gone, Vormulac had sent his lieutenants to check the place out.

While on the rim of the rock, many of the thralls, lieutenants, flyers and warriors who were already down, found themselves pushed into space as a massive tug-o'-war over the provisions milled to and fro, this way and that.

Then it had come out how Zestos and his senior lieutenants had been swept from the rim.

Three flyers and six warriors lost over the edge, four more of each damaged on landing, three Lords and some seven lieutenants either killed accidentally or slain in the fighting, along with perhaps fifteen thralls.