Toril

Word TORIL
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The word "toril" in example sentences

The Forgotten Realms world is called Abeir-toril, and is an Earth-sized planet know any other kind? divided into four huge landmasses and many thousands of islands. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2009)

The bull is freed from his confinement and enters the ring through a toril, or bullpen gate. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Zurito sat there, his feet in the box-stirrups, his great legs in the buckskin-covered armor gripping the horse, the reins in his left hand, the long pic held in his right hand, his broad hat well down over his eyes to shade them from the lights, watching the distant door of the toril. ❋ Ernest Hemingway (1953)

The red door of the toril swung back and for a moment Zurito looked into the empty passageway far across the arena. ❋ Ernest Hemingway (1953)

He wheeled his horse and faced him toward the toril on the far side of the ring where the bull would come out. ❋ Ernest Hemingway (1953)

Throughout this strange ceremony of prayer I seem to see the bull-ring again, and in place of the dilals the cuadrillas of the Matadors coming out to salute, before the alguazils open the gates of the toril and the slaying begins. ❋ S.L. Bensusan (N/A)

When the opening procession has passed round the arena the president of the _corrida_, usually some person of rank, throws down to one of the _alguaciles_ the key to the _toril_, or bull-cells. ❋ Various (N/A)

The whole band then precipitated themselves upon him; he struggled furiously, and knocked them about like nine-pins, but, sensible that he must at last be overpowered by numbers, he managed gradually to get near the _toril_, [14] and then, shaking off his assailants by a sudden effort, he opened the door, and took refuge in that dangerous asylum. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the centre of the ring they ceremoniously salute the presiding official — the governor, sometimes the king himself — and receive from him the key of the bull pen (toril). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Never once had he followed the example of two or three among his predecessors, and turned towards the shut door of the _toril_ as if for refuge. ❋ Armand [Illustrator] Both (1901)

Some bulls had rushed into the arena and blindly attacked the first object which came within their dazed vision; but my heart had time to beat twice before that noble form, which I had last seen in peaceful pasture, deigned to show itself at the dark exit of the _toril_. ❋ Armand [Illustrator] Both (1901)

Before the dead was well out of the ring, and his red track sanded, the door of the _toril_ was thrown open for the fifth bull, said never to be a coward. ❋ Armand [Illustrator] Both (1901)

_toril_ is opened, and the bull, which has been goaded into fury by the affixing to his shoulder of an iron pin with streamers of the colours of his breeder attached, enters the ring. ❋ Various (N/A)

Needless to say, the weave completely unraveled, spellfire became spellplague and spread like a bastard ... the boundries between planes ripped asunder, overlaying one plane onto toril, permanently causing parts of it (like maztica) to go ... who knows where. ❋ Ghalleon (2010)

Pilar’s favourite had still a little time to draw the breath of life, stamping in the gloom of his narrow _toril_. ❋ Armand [Illustrator] Both (1901)

When he had killed three horses (knowing no distinction between their innocence and man’s cruelty, after his shoulders had felt the lance) he was apparently as fresh as when he left the _toril_. ❋ Armand [Illustrator] Both (1901)

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