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Examples

  • She'd felt tense for the entire day's ride, and she'd been worrying the whole time about the extra day she'd taken on the journey back to add another dek and a half to the road from Mencha to the Chean.

    The Shadow Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 2001

  • Anna patted Farinelli, then glanced at the bridge ahead, leading over the Chean and then into Pamr.

    Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • The sorceress did use Clearsong to repair the ford on the Chean where she massacred the Ebrans.

    Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • On the south side of the small river whose name she did not know, but which flowed westward toward the Chean, were grasslands and scattered herds of sheep.

    Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • The bluff to her right had been trimmed into a stone-paved inclined road down to the river, and the murky waters of the Chean formed a glistening sheet nearly a hundred yards wide across the newly created stone ford.

    Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • "Lord Hulber of Silberfels once told Lord Jecks that his great grandsire found nuggets of gold, small ones, in the Chean, but there were no mines, not in recent memory."

    Darksong Rising Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • If they followed the Synor River, they could go to Synope after Cheor, and then come back along the Chean.

    The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998

  • The Envar River, smaller even than the Chean in Defalk east of Sorprat, where Anna had yet to rebuild the ford, lay on the south side of the road from Dumaria to Envaryl.

    The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998

  • That brought a close-up of a river, but Anna couldn't really tell the scale, nor could she see anything that would tell her whether the river she saw was the Chean, the Fal, or the Synor.

    The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998

  • Already the water level of the Falche where the Fal and the Chean met was two-thirds of what the older armsmen said was normal, and, based on the shape of the banks and the traces of old river beaches and the dried-up oxbow lake to the northwest of Falcor, they seemed to be right.

    The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998

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