Yet I agree with you, my uncle, that on such a journey I ought not to be unprotected, and therefore I pray that you will be ready to start with us at noon, since I am sure that then we shall all be safe." Now Joshua began to make excuses, but she would not listen to them.
"No, no," she said, "you are too honest.

The honour of the Abati is involved in this manner, since, alas! it was an Abati that betrayed Black Windows, and an Abati--namely, yourself--must save him.

You have often told me, my uncle, how clever you are at climbing rocks, and now you shall make proof of your skill and courage before these foreigners.
It is a command, speak no more," and she rose, to show that the audience was finished.
That same afternoon Shadrach, by mountain paths that were known to him, led a little company of people to the crest of the western precipice of Mur.

Fifteen hundred feet or more beneath us lay the great plains upon which, some miles away, could be seen the city of Harmac.

But the idol in the valley we could not see, because here the precipice bent over and hid it from our sight.
"What now, fellow," said Maqueda, who was clad in the rough sheepskin of a peasant woman, which somehow looked charming upon her.