What is "marag"

Usage examples of "marag".

We are scrabbling down into the village, where Marag is going to make another score for me.

Cronies squatting against the wall grin and wink at Marag whisking past with a big live one in tow.

The kids squat in a semicircle and stare at me while Marag helps his wife pump a little white gas burner to hissing flame.

After Marag leaves with my five-pound note, Sami and I exchange drawings.

I leave word at the desk to have Marag go on down to my cabana if he shows up before I return.

Despite its peculiarities, Marag culture was functional, and they had not yet begun the practice of ritual cannibalism that their neighbors found so repugnant and that ultimately led to their near extinction.

The Marag invasion of Nyissa turned out to be an unmitigated disaster.

Would you believe that the Nyissans even managed to poison their cattle herds in such a subtle way that the cows looked plump and perfectly healthy, but when a Marag ate a steak or roast or chop from one of those cows, he immediately turned black in the face and died frothing at the mouth?

Fully half of the males of the Marag race died during that abortive invasion.

We nursed the limping Marag column back to their own borders, leaving thousands of dead behind us in those reeking swamps, and then Beldin and I returned to the Vale.

Before the Marag invasion, the Nyissans had cleared away large plots of jungle and built cities and connecting highways.

The Marag invasion had occurred almost a hundred years earlier, but there were still abundant signs of the devastation it had caused.

Masculine beauty involves muscle development, so Marag men spent a great deal of time lifting heavy things over their heads.

There were priests, of course, but as was the case in the rest of Marag society, men played a decidedly minor role in their religion.

Then in 2115, the Tolnedrans, frustrated by the Marag indifference to trade, took action.