Whatever people thought or said about the elves, whatever slurs and indignities they hurled at the “knife ears,” they still had to acknowledge that they owed their nations survival and the existence of their lineages to his selfless slaying of the Archdemon Andoral.

“You’re a good lass,” he remarked one evening, in a very port-winey whisper.

Cooling and solidification frequently takes a different course … in lava flows, producing the clinker-like ‘aa’ lava.

I am purſuaded, that if even Bradford himſelf, that day, had ventured to check the violence of the people, in any way that was not agreeable to them ; and had betrayed the leaſt partiality for the exciſe law ; or perhaps even a remiſſion of his zeal againſt it, he would have ſunk, in an inſtant, from his power, and they would have hung him on the firſt tree.