The dinner was an all-male gathering and therefore likely to be fairly boisterous even by Affronter standards.

'It refuses to communicate,' the Affronter officer said.

The Affronter intercepted it deftly and threw it back, laughing uproariously.

About half the docks were occupied, some with Affronter ships, some with craft from a handful of other species.

When an Affronter was in aggressive/defensive mode, the whole sac could be deflated and covered by protective plates on the top of the central body mass.

Ordinarily Genar-Hofoen had the suit appear milkily silver to an Affronter over most of its surface while keeping the hands and head transparent.

Byr, are you seriously suggesting that becoming an Affronter would be part of your price for doing what SC asks?'

I'm talking about the cost of hiring three Affronter Nova Class Battle-Cruisers and their crews for two months.

Mais un peu seulement : il devait encore affronter Nicole.

To the Affronter ship, the effect of the tiny drone's laser was rather less than a tickle; it flickered across its hull and barely singed it.

The posture of the Affronter's eye stalks indicated that he found something highly pleasing in this statement; probably Fivetide was congratulating himself on being incredibly diplomatic.

Pierce dormit deux heures et se réveilla détendu et prêt à affronter Maurice Goddard.

In terms of offensive capability the pistols provided a sort of minimum level of respectability for Genar-Hofoen; without them no Affronter could possibly allow themselves to be seen taking so puny an outworlder seriously.

He'd thought he'd detected movement on the Affronter side of things before this Sleeper business had come up, but now, if all concerned were to be believed, he could more or less have whatever he wanted, no strings attached.

The neutered Affronter adolescent jumped to its tentacle tips, its eye stalks waving around wildly, then it reached into a small cage by its side with one limb while another tentacle opened the door in the court wall.

Mieux valait affronter Marylebone Road, attendre deux bonnes minutes que le feu des piétons passe au vert et se hâter de traverser avant qu'il ne revienne au rouge.

The Furious Purpose is one of a couple of Affronter craft that left Tier at the same time the fleet did; it could have been following the Peace Makes Plenty, the Sober Counsel told the Culture ship.

The war itself never really got going, there was little loss of life and Affronter reparations for the mischief they did create will serve as a minor but nagging reminder of the liabilities which follow on such aggression for some considerable time to come.

Dieu sait ce qui s'était passé, mais même si cela l'obligeait à renoncer à ses projets, il ne pouvait pas aller affronter Mr Barker-Pryce, son cigare et ses yeux courroucés, avant d'avoir retrouvé Charlie.

When an Affronters' skin was cleaned it was by the small animals called xysters, whose diligence had been vastly improved by giving them such a frenetic hunger for an Affronter's dead skin cells that unless they were overcome by exhaustion they were prone to bloating themselves literally to the point of bursting.

Part of it wanted to whoop and cry hurrah, seeing this detonation of materiel, sufficient to smash a war machine ten times - a hundred times - the size of the approaching Affronter fleet; ah the things you could do if you had the time and patience and no treaties to adhere to or agreements to uphold!