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quoted Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)

Lois McMaster Bujold: Shards of Honor (EBook, 2018, Spectrum Literary Agency) 4 stars

When Cordelia Naismith and her survey crew are attacked by a renegade group from Barrayar, …

The earth still breathed a comfortable warmth from the heat of the afternoon, and the stream purled softly in the stillness.

— Shards of Honor by  (Vorkosigan Saga, #1) (17%)

new vocabulary: purl

(of a stream) Flow with a swirling motion and babbling sound