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  • In Dark Haven, the effects of Jared the Usurper's reign of terror go further than anyone imagined, striking at the stability of the Winter Kingdoms.

    June 2008 2008

  • In Dark Haven, the effects of Jared the Usurper's reign of terror go further than anyone imagined, striking at the stability of the Winter Kingdoms.

    Dark Haven 2008

  • Not only did the Prophet from Nowhere betray his promise to end the Usurper's war, he extended and intensified the war of his own, calling his war the Good War or the Necessary War, and trying not to mention the Usurper's Bad War even as it continued unheralded.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Quixote, the Usurper, and the Prophet from Nowhere (A Political Allegory) 2009

  • It had seen its waters colored red more than once in the past year as the Usurper's bandits raided across its brackish waters.

    And Other Tales Of Valdemar Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • But considering with himself what a treasure it was, upon second thoughts, he durst not venture them at sea, but resolved to place them in his warehouses in form of tables round about the rooms covered over with canvas, continuing still without any intermission his going on; nay, even then, when by the Usurper's power and command he was taken out of his bed, and clapt up close prisoner at

    English Book Collectors William Younger Fletcher 1871

  • The dead Usurper's eldest boy, HENRY by name, was taken by the Earl of Pembroke, the Marshal of England, to the city of Gloucester, and there crowned in great haste when he was only ten years old.

    A child`s history of England 1852

  • The dead Usurper's eldest boy, HENRY by name, was taken by the Earl of

    A Child's History of England Charles Dickens 1841

  • We have said how it happened that none of the Usurper's troops came out to oppose this Army of Fidelity: it pottered along as nimbly as the gout of the principal commanders allowed: it consisted of twice as many officers as soldiers: and at length passed near the estates of one of the most powerful noblemen of the country, who had not declared for the

    The Rose and the Ring William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • We have said how it happened that none of the Usurper's troops came out to oppose this Army of Fidelity: it pottered along as nimbly as the gout of the principal commanders allowed: it consisted of twice as many officers as soldiers: and at length passed near the estates of one of the most powerful noblemen of the country, who had not declared for the

    The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • It is but justice to the Usurper's administration to say, that, except when his government or personal security were concerned, he was an impartial and vigorous administrator of the criminal laws, never sparing rank, or shielding greatness.

    The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805

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