Anvard
Also known as Anvard castle
The castle and royal seat of Archenland. Rabadash’s force besieges it after Shasta’s warning reaches King Lune.
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The Horse and His Boy14 cited passages⌄
- Chapter VIII · paragraph 24
…g. On the second morning I shall be at the gates of King Lune's castle of Anvard in Archenland. They are at peace with us and unprepared and I shall take Anvard before they have bestirred them…
Open passage → - Chapter VIII · paragraph 30
…ll come and go through Narnia like an arrow from a bow, yet we shall have Anvard for ever? And when you hold Anvard you sit in the very gate of Narnia, and your garrison in Anvard can be incre…
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 16
…urse it is," said Hwin. "Just what I was afraid of. Quick! We must get to Anvard before it." And without another word she whisked round and began galloping north. Bree tossed his head and did …
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 18
… going in more or less the right direction, no one knew how far it was to Anvard. From the top of the second ridge Shasta looked back again. Instead of a dust-cloud well out in the desert he n…
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 9
… gasped Shasta. And then, without waiting for an answer, "Lord King--fly--Anvard--shut the gates--enemies upon you--Rabadash and two hundred horse."
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 27
…place where the road divided into two. He was just wondering which led to Anvard when he was startled by a noise from behind him. It was the noise of trotting horses. "Rabadash!" thought Shast…
Open passage → - Chapter XII · paragraph 6
"I wish I could eat grass!" thought Shasta. "It's no good going back to Anvard, it'll all be besieged. I'd better get lower down into the valley and see if I can get anything to eat."
Open passage → - Chapter XII · paragraph 14
…eone ought to be told that there's an army of savage Calormenes attacking Anvard at this very moment."
Open passage → - Chapter XIII · paragraph 21
…battle was at hand. I see him wheel to and fro, peering down sometimes at Anvard and sometimes to the east, behind Stormness. Ah--I see now what Rabadash and his men have been so busy at all d…
Open passage → - Chapter XIII · paragraph 37
… Talking Mouse, who would have refused it. But by attacking our castle of Anvard in time of peace without defiance sent, you have proved yourself no knight, but a traitor, and one rather to be…
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 7
"Oh, of course," said Hwin. "I expect he is in Anvard. Naturally we'd look in on him and say good-bye. But that's on our way. And why shouldn't we start at once? Aft…
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 74
"And you'll be living at Anvard now," said Aravis rather wistfully.
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 1
…e north wind by the high wooded ridge at its back, they saw the castle of Anvard. It was very old and built of a warm, reddish-brown stone.
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 46
Meanwhile at Anvard everyone was very glad that he had been disposed of before the real fun began, which was a grand feast held tha…
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