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| 1 | 39 | The View more quotes about priest">Priest-kings, for thousands of years, had defended the system of the yellow star against the depredations of the prowling Kurii. |
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| 1 | 36 | Dispute it with them who will. |
| 1 | 37 | "Half-Ear is now among us," Samos had said. |
| 1 | 38 | I stared at the ceiling, watching the shifting shadows and reflections from the small, perforated lamp. |
| 1 | 39 | The Priest-kings, for thousands of years, had defended the system of the yellow star against the depredations of the prowling Kurii. |
| 1 | 40 | Fortunes had shifted perhaps dozens of times, but never had the Kurii managed to establish a beachhead on the shores of this beautiful world. |
| 1 | 41 | But some years ago, in the time of the Nest War, the power of the Priest-Kings was considerably reduced. |
| 1 | 42 | I do not think the Kurii are certain of this, or of the extent of the reduction. |