witling

• “He's the underdog you root for; a victimized witling in a land of condescending Talented.”

  REVIEW: The Witling by Vernor Vinge

• “Azhiri that lack the Talent are known as witlings and occupy a lower social status ... except for Pelio, a witling since birth but afforded a higher social standing since he happens to be the Prince of the land of Summer.”

  REVIEW: The Witling by Vernor Vinge

• “It is certainly not John the Baptist, nor John the Evangelist, nor James the Greater, nor James the Less; he must inevitably be some witling of a Hun, to write such abominable impertinence, or some ill-conditioned, malicious”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “Nay, though it well may raise a smile of ridicule (not on the lips of a grave man perhaps, but of some facetious witling) to hear me say it, a beauty like the cadence of sweet music190 dwells even in pots and pans set out in neat array: and so, in general, fair things ever show more fair when orderly bestowed.”

  Oeconomicus

• “More than one captain and more than one book on war had told Conan what his own sense said: Never trust your enemy to be a witling.”

  Conan and The Mists of Door

• “And you should call your chief groom a fool, for letting into the field a witling who'll touch another's steel without asking.”

  Conan and The Mists of Door

• “Conan knew he must sound like a witling, but in this matter, he understood no more than one.”

  Conan and The Gods of The Mountain

• “Had the Ichiribu sent a witling to serve her and the Cimmerian?”

  Conan and The Gods of The Mountain

• “It was easy for Vidal to imagine what must be going on inside-easy to picture that smug, orphaned witling Keighvin Silverhair barking orders to weak mortals, marshaling them to fight.”

  The Chrome Borne

• “How long must I wait for you to show courage, witling?”

  Omnibus

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