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  • And if you choose to leave my kin-clan when we reach the Wintering Place to find a feeder among some other clan, well, I will see to it that all hear of how faithless you are, how clumsy with your magic and how you wasted a wealth of it to very little success.

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • Not my concern if we reach the Wintering Place and you have not even enough magic to kindle a fire for yourself?

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • And I believe that yes, actually there will be many women at the Wintering Place who would want to become my feeder and share in my glory and power, without making threats or sour faces at me.

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • Usually, mates came from outside the kin-clan, and often the journey to the Wintering Place or the Trading Place was when young women met males from other clans for those liaisons.

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • What hope could I have, imprisoned in my own flesh and about to be borne off to the Speck Wintering place?

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • And when all the kin-clans gather at the Wintering Place, you will be mocked, and the people who bring you will be mocked.

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • Wintering waterfowl include pintail, cinnamon teal, American widgeon, surf scoter and ruddy duck.

    Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, California 2008

  • Wintering populations of black kite (Milvus migrans) have collapsed within the past decade, and the breeding population numbers only a few pairs.

    Chao Phraya freshwater swamp forests 2008

  • Wintering waterfowl and greylag goose numbers have decreased from 200,000 to 50,000 and 20,000 to less than 1,000 respectively.

    Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia 2008

  • I will be true to what she taught me when I go to the Wintering Place.

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

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