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I'll be interested to hear your thoughts if you read The Legate's Daughter.
The Legate’s Daughter, by Wallace Breem. Book review Carla 2010
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"The matter will go before the Legate's Council next week," continued the commander, "and I assure you that you will not be disappointed in the ruling."
Spirit Gate 2006
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I could just make out the Legate's little cavalcade.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Fifanti's death at his door, but they went to further lengths and accounted that I was the cat's-paw; that I was to be sacrificed to save the Legate's face and reputation.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Rafael Sabatini 1912
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All that night those in Damietta waited without any tidings, and on Friday by the Queen's and Legate's orders ten galleys with a flotilla of small boats carrying armed men were despatched up stream to the King's assistance.
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The first procession started from the Legate's house, and proceeded to the minster of Our Lady in the town; which minster had been built by the Saracens for the worship of Mahound, and the Legate had consecrated it to the Mother of God.
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Now as it turned out, all the spoil that was brought to the Legate's house only amounted to six thousand pounds.
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The Patriarch was the first to speak, and said thus: "Sir, it seems to me, that you will do well to keep the wheat and barley and rice, and all the necessaries of life, to stock the town; and let it be cried throughout the camp, that all the rest of the spoil must be brought to the Legate's dwelling, on pain of excommunication."
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The Legate's crooked fingers played absently with the coins as they came to his side, arranging them in little piles, and the piles in patterns, almost without glancing at them.
Stradella 1881
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The sergeant hailed him and asked what news of the counterfeiter there was from the Legate's court.
Stradella 1881
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