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| 20 | 289 | "View more quotes about tarnsmen">Tarnsmen," she gasped. |
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| 20 | 286 | Were they loosed to be retrieved by allies? As these thoughts raced through Ellen's head she noted, approaching from her present left, what would have been the right before her tarns had begun, leaderless, to veer about, and circle, a storm of wings, perhaps as many as thirty tarns. |
| 20 | 287 | She knew these were not wild tarns, because of the orderly approach, the measured, three-dimensional spacing of the birds. |
| 20 | 288 | She caught, in less than an Ehn, a glimpse of saddles and shields, of lances, of helmets. |
| 20 | 289 | "Tarnsmen," she gasped. |
| 20 | 290 | These were no irregulars, or guerrillas, no motley assemblage of defiant, desperate, courageous patriots. |
| 20 | 291 | These were surely no allies of Portus Canio and his tarnsters. |
| 20 | 292 | These were professional soldiers, uniformed, organized, disciplined, well-armed. |