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Examples

  • Gleg staggered and, with a wild cry, pitched off into the chasm.

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • "If you follow this tunnel," said Vinashko, "you will come out behind the castle of the Zaporoskan, Gleg, that overlooks Akrim."

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • Though the rear of the castle seemed invulnerable, the cautious Gleg had posted a sentry there anyway.

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • Instead, Teyaspa was confined in the castle of Gleg the Zaporoskan, a fierce semibandit chief who had come into the valley of the Akrim many years before and set himself up as a feudal lord over the primitive Yuetshi, preying on them but not protecting them.

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • Several Zaporoskans fell, but so did the two Turanians who stooped to lift the plank, and across the bridge rushed Gleg, his cold gray eyes blazing under his spired helmet.

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • That henpecked monarch, instead of strangling his brother Teyaspa in the approved Turanian manner, has been prevailed upon to keep him cooped up in a castle deep in the Colchian Mountains, southeast of Vilayet, as a prisoner of the Zaporoskan brigand Gleg.

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • It was not the first time that Gleg had had to deal with his master's philanthropic activities.

    The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

  • "I'm sure I have no use for them, sir," replied Gleg, sourly.

    The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Instead of receiving this statement with gratitude, Gleg had sniffed in a manner which, in any one else, would have been impertinence; and he had not even offered thanks.

    The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

  • A moment later he was in the fingers of Gleg the valet in the bath-room, and Stafford set to work to make the breakfast piping hot again.

    The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

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