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Examples

  • Turning so quickly that the long, black skirt of her habit billowed about her, she hurried out of the study and across the sellaria.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • Sand's soldiers filled the Lyrichord Room's luxurious sellaria with polite clankings as Siyuf returned his salute.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • She. looked around Ermine's sellaria with interest.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • When he opened his eyes again, she was back with an old man whose name he had forgotten, the waiter who had offered him wine in the sellaria, the one who had told him of Remora, the footman who had opened the door, and others.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • It was stranger and more dream-like than the sellaria, but more friendly and more human, too.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • He had never set foot in the cenoby, but he thought he had a fair notion of its plan: sellaria, refectory, kitchen, and pantry on the lower floor; bedrooms (four at least, and perhaps as many as six) on the upper floor.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • The sellaria had been a vision of opulence bordering on nightmare; this was a gentler one of warmth and water, sunshine and lush fertility, and though this glass-roofed garden might be used for vicious purposes, sunshine and fertility, water and warmth were things in themselves good; their desirability could only be illustrated more clearly by the proximity of evil.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • When he opened his eyes again, she was back with an old man whose name he had forgotten, the waiter who had offered him wine in the sellaria, the one who had told him of Remora, the footman who had opened the door, and others.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • It had been as warm as he had expected in the sellaria; passing through the arch he entered an atmosphere warmer still, humid, and freighted with exotic perfumes.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • The pronoun should have been I, but she was used to saying them with Maytera Rose and Maytera Marble; and they, praying together in the sellaria of the cenoby, had quite properly said "we."

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

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