“…she immediately spurred her horse, yet the horse had hardly moved when Wadre moved his arm in an indication that she was not to advance beyond him, wherefore she drew rein, her sword, and the conclusion that the time was not yet quite at hand to charge.”

Steven Brust, The paths of the dead, p. 335.   New York: Tom Doherty Associates (2002), p. 335.

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