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• “But the cover makes me feel like if I don't pick it up and read it, Tsu'gan is going get up off his throne to set me on fire as punishment.”

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• “Gilpaëgan is an extensive and most fertile valley.”

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• “First, Grandmother cut off equal-size segments of her log of dough and then passed them to my mother, who used a wooden roller to flatten them into circles, a process called gan mien.”

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• “It is interesting to note that the Hebrew word gan (garden) shares the same root as defend (ganan), whereas the Indo-European root of the word, gher, means to grasp or enclose (see Blomley, 'The Borrowed View: Privacy, Property, and the Entanglements of Property', Law and Social Inquiry, 30 2005, 623).”

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• “Tarik took D'gan's words for a dismissal and was relieved to deal with D'gan's second, a reasonable man who asked few questions.”

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• “He shook off the question, asking instead, "Was this D'gan's mine?”

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• “D'vin glanced up at rumbling from D'gan's bronze and made a snap judgment.”

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• “It had surprised him to discover how difficult it was to find a buyer for his firestone, given how all the other Weyrs had complained about D'gan's stinginess.”

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• “I've heard that D'gan's commissioned a fancy dirk for himself as a reward.”

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• “D'gan's eyes flicked angrily from Toldur to the other men before settling on Fenner.”

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