What is "wardsman"

Usage examples of "wardsman".

His other mission had been delivered orally by Master Wardsman Com Varlt: to check on the Rogan twins.

And since none of his tablemates seemed disposed to talk, the wardsman hesitated to break the.

Only a wardsman could come and go without any check from local authorities, acting under the orders of his own officers.

Sometimes such a return might be a hurried one, dictated by attack, accident, or the need for moving a wardsman unable to function with either mind or body in the best of condition.

For a woman to turn up at the legal depot on any successor world where a legitimate wardsman team was in control would mean instant exposure and arrest.

The prudent wardsman would have refused to give her seatroom, even on what should have been a safe return trip.

Twice Varlt switched off while Blake took the medication which appeared in the table groove, but the senior wardsman asked no questions as Blake added fact to fact.

Somewhere, the master wardsman must see a loophole, even if he were not yet so sure of it as to explain.

It was only after the two cats had been given bowls of food and were eating that the nobleman looked toward Blake, sweeping the wardsman with a gaze which missed not one tear, smear of river mud, or bruise.

The wardsman sprawled on the dirty floor, trying to steady himself as the motor came to life and the truck backed onto roughly cleared space to turn around.

But the constant tension of that became more than he could endure, and at last, the wardsman lay prone, his body all one ache, striving only to protect his injured arm as he was shaken about.

For all his desire to front the enemy on his feet, the wardsman sagged to the ground.

The wardsman, meeting those deep-set eyes, knew that what he saw in them was nothing which could be a part of any sane life.

The inner warning in the wardsman became a need for flight, so great that Blake thought he could never control it.

The lightest of touches, and yet the wardsman felt as if the worn wood had in that instant laid some smarting brand upon him.