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  • The tent-flap lifted, and Matt McCarthy peered in.

    CHAPTER 2 2010

  • Turcaill whipped aside the tent-flap and plunged within so fast, and with two others so hard on his heels, that Cadwaladr had no time to do more than leap to his feet in indignant alarm, his mouth open to vent his outrage, before there was a drawn dagger at his throat, and princely anger at being rudely interrupted changed instantly into frozen understanding and devout and quivering stillness.

    His Disposition 2010

  • I was listening outside the tent-flap, you see, stricken dumb with manly grief.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • Turcaill set his hand to the tent-flap, and waited until Torsten, with his drawn dagger in his hand, had circled the tent to find a rear seam where the skins were sewn together.

    His Disposition 2010

  • Faile stepped out into the cold, gray morning drizzle, and the tent-flap cut off whatever Sevanna said to that.

    Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

  • Then he called back Mirzuk and lowered the tent-flap: a sign that there was private business to be done.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • It was Imriel, sidling through the tent-flap, wary and unsure.

    Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

  • "Well, Astolan!" he said cheerfully as he pushed the tent-flap aside.

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • More trickled in as the sun rose higher, until there was a line of twenty or thirty waiting when the Guild Registrar, an old and sour-looking scribe, raised the tent-flap to let them file inside.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • Martis 'tent was to the west of the clearing, a cluster of boulders behind it, and the tent-flap open to the cheerful fire.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

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