Gazetteer
Usage examples of "royse".
He’d not paced halfway back to his post before his comrade stuck his head around the gate to call, “The royse returns!
He ventured tentatively, “Was that the royse and royesse I saw come in from riding as I arrived, Your Grace?
Cazaril was daunted to find the Royesse Iselle on his other side, and the Royse Teidez across from her.
He took heart again when the royse chose to while away the wait for all to be seated by flicking bread-balls at his older sister, a maneuver sternly suppressed by his grandmother.
Instead he said, “I hope I did not annoy the royse with my maunderings, my lady.
But it seemed to Cazaril that if dy Sanda was looking to guard his future influence over the royse when he came to a man’s estate with its full power and privilege of a high lord—at the very least—of Chalion, he was going about it exactly backward.
The warder made rapid conference with dy Sanda and Cazaril of a dozen practical details, from stabling the horses and grooms to—Cazaril grinned briefly—stabling the royse and royesse.
Doors swung wide, sweet horns sounded, and the warder announced in stentorian breaths, “The Royse Teidez dy Chalion!
But Dondo’s searching look was torn from Cazaril as his brother motioned a servant to bring forward the gifts he was presenting to Royse Teidez: a silver-mounted saddle and bridle, a fine hunting crossbow, and an ash boar spear with a wickedly gleaming, chased steel point.
The attempt to make away with young Royse Bergon was thwarted, thank the gods, and Bergon rescued.
To hang on a royse, his future roya, future dispenser of position, wealth, preferment, military opportunity—well, there you have it.
The services were somberly graced by both the royse and royesse and their households, so a few courtiers anxious for their favor likewise attended.
Dondo dy Jironal publicly undertook to distract the young royse from his sorrow by providing him with the most delectable entertainments.
I think his second son is the only royse in the lands who’s near to my age, and he’s not the heir.
Dondo had not kept the royse up last night, so he was looking much less green and seedy than usual.