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Before the Hall of Justice, a ring of dimarchi surrounded the scaffold with their lances, and the pistol their officer carried could, I suppose, have killed fifty or sixty before someone could snatch it ftom him and knock him to the cobblestones to die.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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They were guarded by dimarchi, hard-bitten troopers in armor that looked as if it had been made for use and used.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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I followed him down a dark hallway into a room much lower and darker than the lazaret, where two or three score dimarchi like himself were bent over a midday meal of fresh bread, beef, and boiled greens.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
Telofy commented on the word dimarchi
"They were guarded by dimarchi, hard-bitten troopers in armor that looked
as if it had been made for use and used." -- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun
October 1, 2008