"Before them stood an old man, very tall and upright, carrying a staff as though it were a king's sceptre. There was something so noble about the old man that the children knew, in spite of his simple tunic and broad-brimmed hat, that he must be a king at the very least."
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Hilda Lewis, in The Ship that Flew (1939), Ch. 6 : Freys Ship
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