What is "mathom"

Usage examples of "mathom".

In the pale slashes of his brows and his sea-colored eyes, he bore the stamp of Ylon’s wild blood, but his patience with Mathom when everyone else had exhausted theirs was considered phenomenal.

There was a short silence, during which Mathom considered the wine in his cup.

She looked at Mathom, who seemed in spite of the rich robe he wore, black and impervious as a wizard’s curse in the sunlight.

She stood by the window after Duac left to tell Mathom, watching the riders veer around the nut orchards, flickering in and out of the lacework of black, bare branches.

It brought the tears for a moment into her eyes so that Mathom blurred to a shadow when she looked at him.

He stood staring at the air where Mathom had gone out like a dark, windblown flame.

As they stood together, she felt the binding between them, like the binding between Duac and Mathom, and recognized, with a slight shock, the eccentric land-heir of the Ymris King.

Ylon leaped in her mind, at the sea’s harping the sea he came out of had given her and Mathom gifts of power.

The mistrust and the anger against the absent King of An would fester into open war, a great battleground of living and dead, that not even Mathom would be able to control.

None of them, not even Mathom of An, had the power even to see behind my eyes.

An, which Mathom will leave nearly defenseless when he brings his army north?

He sought it, something of himself, and found it in Mathom, tired and shadowed by death.

But I was trapped in Isig by a stubborn winter, delayed in Ymris by a seige of Caerweddin, and requested, just as I was about to embark from Caithnard, in an urgent message from Mathom of An, to get to Anuin.

Auber told Mathom, and Mathom, faced with the news that someone had slipped quietly into his land, won a riddle-game men have lost their lives over for centuries, and left as quietly, summoned me from Caithnard and asked me to find that crown.

Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from hand to hand were of that son.