What is "strangelings"

Usage examples of "strangelings".

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.

Did these strangelings come against Ket-Ta-Witko, he said, then would their presence not be an affront to the Maker?

They both of them wondered what purpose drove the strangelings and if they would attempt the crossing of the mountains, but that was only speculation and idle in light of their isolation.

He felt a terrible dread that somehow none of these defenses should prove enough, and the strangelings come through the hills like floodwater remorselessly seeking out all the small and indefensible crannies and cracks until it spills through and drowns all before it.

I know that these strangelings come against us and I am vowed to fight them.

And behind them, unhindered by the tunnel’s roof, came the strangelings in their rainbow armor, like a bright flood intent on drowning all before it.

There were too many, and Colun wondered how well they could withstand further attacks—and how the strangelings had succeeded in coming so far through the tunnels.

When the invaders had come into the Javitz caverns, the Grannach were ready, and when it became obvious the strangelings came in numbers too great to defeat, Colun had made a terrible decision.

All well, he hoped they would spot the strangelings only at a distance—locate the placement of their forces and assess their strength that he have some clearer idea what the People faced—then come back safe with such information.

We have all seen these strangelings and can say what they do—and what we fear they shall do.

Did it follow after these twenty strangelings, or did it remain below the hills, awaiting the scouts’ reports?

What I need to know is who these strangelings are, and what they do here.

And behind them, unhindered by the tunnel's roof, came the strangelings in their rainbow armor, like a bright flood intent on drowning all before it.

Did it follow after these twenty strangelings, or did it remain below the hills, awaiting the scouts' reports?

Stick in hand, I passed forward, and the strangelings moved about me, appeared at windows, on balconies, on benches, at gates .