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  • Across from the torch was another corridor where, according to Oll, anywhere from two to ten guards should be standing watch before a certain cell at the passageway’s end.

    Excerpt: Graceling by Kristin Cashore 2008

  • Just as she was beginning to wonder if Oll and Giddon had lost themselves in the dungeons, they appeared around the corner and slipped past her.

    Excerpt: Graceling by Kristin Cashore 2008

  • That day in the buried chamber beneath the palace of Salensus Oll I learned what swordsmanship meant, and to what heights of sword mastery I could achieve when pitted against such a wizard of the blade as Solan.

    The Warlord of Mars 1913

  • "_Oll_ get together and left dress, please," besought Captain Rozario, and many of the little islands amalgamated with that on their extreme right while the remainder gravitated to their left -- the result being two continents of unequal dimensions.

    Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

  • As I ran for my life through the dark galleries beneath the palace of Salensus Oll I must indeed have presented a remarkable appearance had there been any to note it, for though death loomed large about me, my face was split by a broad grin as I thought of the resourcefulness of the nameless hero of Marentina to whom I owed my life.

    The Warlord of Mars 1913

  • The third day of my incarceration brought a dozen warriors to escort me to the audience chamber, where Salensus Oll himself was to try me.

    Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • Salensus Oll I must indeed have presented a remarkable appearance had there been any to note it, for though death loomed large about me, my face was split by a broad grin as I thought of the resourcefulness of the nameless hero of Marentina to whom I owed my life.

    Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • Salensus Oll was a good swordsman or a poor I never learned; for with Dejah Thoris at my back I was no longer human -- I was a superman, and no man could have withstood me then.

    Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • It is partly because I hate his religion that Salensus Oll hates me; but mostly does he fear my growing power and the great faction which has arisen throughout Okar that would be glad to see me ruler of Okar and Jeddak of Jeddaks in his place.

    Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • That it would mean almost instant death for me I cared not, except that it would remove me from further efforts in behalf of Dejah Thoris, and for this reason alone I would have chosen another way, for even though I should kill Salensus Oll that act would not restore my beloved wife to her own people.

    Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

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