What is "strangeling"

Usage examples of "strangeling".

The doubts dinned always in his ear and he wondered if he clutched at phantasms, or if somehow the strangeling invaders sent malign influences into Ket-Ta-Witko to lure and twist and weaken.

Then: “They spoke of such creatures as I’d not ever heard of, of terrible warriors whose only love seemed slaughter, who rode aback strangeling beasts of no better humor than their masters.

The Grannach was entirely recovered from his drunkenness—a recuperative ability Racharran envied—and sat cross-legged before the six of the folk he had brought with him, all eager to speak of their experiences with the strangeling invaders.

The strangeling invaders pressed too hard, and for all the golans’ labors, there would be fresh battles ere long.

They were hard to see, to define, and they carried swords and lances that seemed possessed of their own power, so that when only a single strangeling sprang out before the terrified buffalo brandishing his weapon, the beasts snorted and turned away, driven back toward the other predators.

The strangeling beasts clawed and bit and roared as the buffalo bellowed in terror and pain, and stumbled in the tanglings of their own entrails.

They both knew there was little chance of outrunning those strangeling beasts over the snow, nor much better of defeating them.

Save he’d heard, like all the Aparhaso, of Racharran’s visit and what the Commacht akaman had said to his own chieftain of strangeling invaders such as the Grannach had warned of at Matakwa.

He knew again where the long, slow column should turn aside to avoid the strangeling beastriders.

The strangeling animals fought one another as they were forced together, rearing up to claw and bite their fellows, even the riders.

The Grannach was entirely recovered from his drunkenness—a re-cuperative ability Racharran envied—and sat cross-legged before the six of the folk he had brought with him, all eager to speak of their experiences with the strangeling invaders.

The strangeling invaders pressed too hard, and for all the golans' labors, there would be fresh battles ere long.

They were hard to see, to define, and they carried swords and lances that seemed possessed of their own power, so that when only a single strangeling sprang out before the terrified buffalo bran-dishing his weapon, the beasts snorted and turned away, driven back toward the other predators.

Save he'd heard, like all the Aparhaso, of Racharran's visit and what the Commacht akaman had said to his own chieftain of strangeling invaders such as the Grannach had warned of at Matakwa.

There were no Whaztaye in the dream, only the strangelings who came on inexorable, like a brilliant, dreadful tide, closer and closer to the hills.